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| Early Morning Fog |
We are at the corner of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee –
If you go for a drive you can go from state to state in a matter of
minutes. On the water at the marina, we
are in Mississippi, but the shore across the way is Alabama, and up the hill
its Tennessee. Despite the possibility
for geographic complication we decided to go sight-seeing today. It has cooled off considerably and early in
the morning there was a fog rising from the water.
We drove through Pickwick Landing State Park and found some
one-lane gravel roads through the beautiful forest. We thought it looked like Wisconsin, the
people with us thought it looked like Pennsylvania. We stopped to explore a very old cemetery,
and then went on to Savannah, where there was a nice little museum. The museum people were letting everyone in
for free to make up for the fact that the Shiloh Battlefield was closed. The museum actually had a lot of stories
about the civil war battle and we learned a lot about what we didn’t get to
see.
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| All National Parks are Closed |
Just down the road was the Hickory Pit BBQ place and it was
packed with locals. Of course they ran
out of everything we hoped to order, but we had a good lunch anyway. Then we drove near the Shiloh Battlefield,
and saw what we could see within 100 yds of the road. Quite a few other tourists were there, and
one gentleman was giving an informal Civil War History lesson. Did you know that all confederate armies
were named after states – such as the Army of Northern Virginia, or the Army of
North Carolina – and Union Armies were named after rivers; the Army of the
Potomac and the Army of the Ohio. Over
the three-day battle at Shiloh over 23,000 soldiers died. 20 or 30 years later, veterans from both
sides met for reunions and helped re-enact and define the battle lines before
the land was purchased from private owners and made into a park. Every state that had soldiers fighting at
Shiloh has erected a monument in the area where their men were fighting.
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