uss cairo museum vicksburg

Vicksburg Battlefield & USS Cairo Museum. The siege of Vicksburg by Union General Grant and its surrender in 1863 was a turning point in the War Between the States. The battlefield photos follow the auto tour shown in the...


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USS Cairo Museum


U.S.S. Cairo Museum. Vicksburg


U.S.S. Cairo Museum


U.S.S. Cairo Museum Vicksburg


The USS Cairo was a Federal gunboat that was sunk outside of Vicksburg by a

This is what's left of the Union warship "USS Cairo". If you're visiting the area and don't have a lot of time, make sure you visit at least long enough to see this... After Vicksburg, we headed south towards Natchez and made a stop at the Grand Gulf Military Park which has a little museum with more Civil War artifacts and quite a few historic buildings, including this little chapel. Grand Gulf was a thriving town for awhile and was even considered as a candidate for the state...
On the Road With the Roses: Days 3 - 4: Vicksburg and Grand Gulf ...

The park also has a visitor center with a movie plus a few exhibits and a small museum with an outdoor display of the reconstructed Union gunboat , the U.S.S. Cairo, which spent 100 years sunk in the Mississippi mud.
uss cairo museum vicksburg