We are in Vicksburg, Mississippi. It took us a little over 4 hours to get here from Tuscaloosa, and we got here a little after noon. We stopped at the Welcome Center and had a good view of the Mississippi River. It is wide! We had rain again today, but it finally stopped in the afternoon and the sun came out. It surprised me it is not as hot here in Mississippi as it is in NC. The weather has been in the 80's.
We saw some interesting sights today. Did you know that one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil
War was fought in Vicksburg? The Union soldiers led by Grant had over 35000 troops and the confederates led by Pemberton had only 18,500. The south lost and there are now over 17,000 soldiers buried there, over 12000 of them unknown. We also saw the battleship Cairo which was a Union ship that was torpedoed by the south and sunk in less than 12 minutes.
We toured the Coca Cola museum where there are a lot of coke memorabilia which goes back over a hundred years when Joseph Biedenhem bottled the first coca cola. Before that you could only get a coke at a soda shop.
Tomorrow we will travel through Louisiana and Texas and will stop in Ft Worth to spend the night. Then on Thursday we plan to visit Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico and see the stalagmites/stalactites.
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