The South and the Civil War

While I've heard about the interest that Southerns have with the Civil War, it's something else to see it in person.  Yesterday at the Vicksburg National Park we saw plenty of memorials, but these were from both the North and South.  Today we went to Old Court Museum.  The museum is put together of artifacts that people donated to the museum.  There are sections of clothes, tools, medical implements, boat items, guns, shelves of different bullets, letters, flags, momentos, etc.  All had notes explaining the item, but especially who donated it.

Also, anything that Jefferson Davis or his family touched is special and deserves to be in a museum.   For instance, this piano was played by Jefferson Davis's daughter.  Ok, I have to admit if I had something that Lincoln touched, I'd think it was something special too.

The museum was definitely more homey than most that we've seen.  We found 2 cats sleeping on the furniture!

The best part was the pregnant minie!  The picture shows a minie ball (bullet shaped) on right page of the book.  This minie supposedly pierced the man-parts of a solder then traveled into a lady which made her pregnant.  She later gave birth to a child.  Supposedly the doctor introduced her to the solder father who married her and had more children with her.  I love this story!

By the way, this was all incredibly interesting to see. We expected to spend only a little time at the national park and the museum. We ended up spending 4 hours at the park and 2 hours at the museum. Interesting stuff!