While at anchor this morning we were able to worship with our home congregation, Mt Pleasant Lutheran Church via a pod cast(spaceshipchurch.org>News>Podcasts).
We arrived at Grand Harbor Marina today after a very short trip
from Pickwick State Park anchorage. The
homes along the way are very grand – if you have some notion about Mississippi
and Tennessee and hillbillies, you can forget
about it. These are some serious
mansions. The landscape is so beautiful
its easy to see why one would want to build a dream house high above the river.
We drove a courtesy car into Corinth this afternoon and
visited the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center. Its part of the Shiloh National Park
area. The museum was very nice, and
explained the critical role of Corinth as the crossroads of two major railroads
serving both the north and the south.
Both the Union and the Confederacy were determined to control this rail
junction and prolonged battles were fought in this area in April/May of
1862. A town of 1500 people became a
battlefield for 50,000 soldiers and the available water, largely from winter
rain quickly became a tainted swamp. As
many soldiers died of disease and dysentery as from their battle wounds. The entire Shiloh campaign took 23,000 lives
and the town was largely abandoned after serving as a field hospital. In the end the Federal Army controlled the
area and the railroads.
Federal troops protected thousands of slaves who escaped to
Corinth as “contraband” until they could be relocated and freed after the
war. General Hodge turned a part of
Corinth into a Contraband camp, where houses, a school, a hospital and
businesses were established. A regiment
of freed slaves from Corinth served the Union Army. Slaves held paid jobs and over 1000 people
were taught to read. After this
successful experiment, no other camps were ever developed at this level and
slaves struggled to become a part of the free culture.
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Glad you got to see the civil war museum at Shiloh- it was closed the last time we were there- gov shutdown.
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