Copyright © 2012 Bob R Bogle
The first map shows the loop around Vicksburg. The maps in today's dispatch illustrating the last leg of the trip overlap with the route traversed during the passage out from earlier in the trip. We start out by following the Mississippi in a southerly drive, crossing the Big Black River one last time.
Here we loop over to the Mississippi at Grand Gulf. Many of Grant's men crossed over from Arkansas along this stretch of the river, including XV Corps. Leaving Grand Gulf, we retrace part of our route and then deviate to continue south, crossing Bayou Pierre, the unlabeled river at the bottom of the following map.
We skirt through the edge of Port Gibson before immediately veering off to the west once more, paralleling Bayou Pierre in the direction of the site of Bruinsburg, Mississippi, a no longer inhabited Civil War era town where more of Grant's troops landed for the inland invasion. A nuclear power plant is located in the vicinity today. The Corinthian pillars of the ruins of Windsor Plantation stand nearby. Mark Twain speaks of them as a landmark for riverboat steamships.
Continuing the counterclockwise turn of a large loop which will bring us back once more to Port Gibson. The route cutting through this loop is part of the Natchez Trace, which we ascended days earlier.
And so we return to Port Gibson and the grave of Earl Van Dorn. We then angle off sharply to the east for the final sequence of the journey.
Zooming out. . .
Zooming out more . . . and crossing back into Louisiana.
Over the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which I've never attempted before: the longest continuous bridge over water in the world (23.83 miles long). This is what it's like on the Causeway. Make sure you pan around 360 degrees.
And then home again. Pretty sure in another life I was a New Orleans native.
The first map shows the loop around Vicksburg. The maps in today's dispatch illustrating the last leg of the trip overlap with the route traversed during the passage out from earlier in the trip. We start out by following the Mississippi in a southerly drive, crossing the Big Black River one last time.
Here we loop over to the Mississippi at Grand Gulf. Many of Grant's men crossed over from Arkansas along this stretch of the river, including XV Corps. Leaving Grand Gulf, we retrace part of our route and then deviate to continue south, crossing Bayou Pierre, the unlabeled river at the bottom of the following map.
We skirt through the edge of Port Gibson before immediately veering off to the west once more, paralleling Bayou Pierre in the direction of the site of Bruinsburg, Mississippi, a no longer inhabited Civil War era town where more of Grant's troops landed for the inland invasion. A nuclear power plant is located in the vicinity today. The Corinthian pillars of the ruins of Windsor Plantation stand nearby. Mark Twain speaks of them as a landmark for riverboat steamships.
Continuing the counterclockwise turn of a large loop which will bring us back once more to Port Gibson. The route cutting through this loop is part of the Natchez Trace, which we ascended days earlier.
And so we return to Port Gibson and the grave of Earl Van Dorn. We then angle off sharply to the east for the final sequence of the journey.
Zooming out. . .
Zooming out more . . . and crossing back into Louisiana.
Over the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which I've never attempted before: the longest continuous bridge over water in the world (23.83 miles long). This is what it's like on the Causeway. Make sure you pan around 360 degrees.
And then home again. Pretty sure in another life I was a New Orleans native.
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