Natchez, Mississippi | This cemetery houses some of the first Union internments in the original cemetery, created in 1866, as well as other interments brought from sites in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Mississippi
140 Lower Woodville Road
Natchez, MS 39120
Website: https://natchezpilgrimage.com/
Longwood provides visitors with eloquent testimony to the devastating impact of the Civil War on the cotton economy of the American South. The tragic story of the hardships of the family who lived there, "reared in the lap of luxury and reduced to poverty, " has all the tragedy and pathos of Gone With the Wind but with a double reverse twist. First, it is true. Second, the family that lost everything was loyal to the Union. Work on the house, begun in 1860, stopped after the war was declared in 1861. The Northern workmen made their way through the blockade that was put on the South and home to Philadelphia, leaving their tools on the workbench where they now remain.
Natchez, Mississippi | The home of John T. McMurran, this historic mansion is an excellent example of an antebellum Greek Revival estate.
Natchez, Mississippi | The mansion was located along the route of Grant's army on its march inland toward Jackson, and was used by Union troops as a hospital during the Civil War.
Frogmore, Louisiana | The historic site is an antebellum and modern, working cotton plantation with twenty historic buildings, including a steam cotton gin and computerized gin.
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