Part of the Vicksburg National
Military Park is a fantastic museum on the USS Cairo Battleship. The battleship
is displayed under white tents and you
can walk on board and get a great feel for what it must have been like to sail on
her. Next to the battleship display is a great museum that has artifacts from
the ship. This museum is new and built in a way that makes you feel like you
are on board the actual ship while you look at the displays. No pictures are
allowed in the museum so you will just have to visit to see the clever museum.
The U.S.S. Cairo,
a noted Civil War ironclad,
is now preserved as part of a special display
on the northern edge of the battlefield. Once
a powerful Union vessel, she is remarkably
well preserved and offers visitors a unique
opportunity to actually step aboard a warship
that is more than 140 years old.
A "super weapon" of her time, the Cairo was
constructed as part of a plan by the Union to
develop a flotilla of ironclad gunboats that
would be used as both defensive and
offensive weapons on the Mississippi and
Ohio Rivers.
http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/vicksburg2.html
is now preserved as part of a special display
on the northern edge of the battlefield. Once
a powerful Union vessel, she is remarkably
well preserved and offers visitors a unique
opportunity to actually step aboard a warship
that is more than 140 years old.
A "super weapon" of her time, the Cairo was
constructed as part of a plan by the Union to
develop a flotilla of ironclad gunboats that
would be used as both defensive and
offensive weapons on the Mississippi and
Ohio Rivers.
http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/vicksburg2.html
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