LMRR'12 Dispatch #4: Natchez to Tupelo.

Copyright © 2012 Bob R Bogle


This stretch of the road trip largely will follow the Natchez Trace, featuring the terrain covered by Grant and Sherman as they swept up from the Mississippi River to attack Vicksburg from behind.

The loop is the route to be made later during the return trip.  During this leg of the trip the route continues to angle along a northeasterly transit.

Here the route follows battles at Raymond, then with Pemberton's forces at Champion Hill and the bridge over the Big Black River west of Edward's Station, and finally east to Jackson.

Fleetwood Plantation was owned by Jefferson Davis.  After capturing Vicksburg, the Union army accidentally came across personal correspondence from Davis to former President Franklin Pierce at Fleetwood Plantation, which eventually ruined the reputation of the latter, demonstrating his sympathy for Davis and the Confederate cause.