Vicksburg

I went to Vickburg in the 1950s with my classmates from Greenville, Mississippi. We were led by two of our schoolteachers who were hard core Rebels. They were sisters who taught in the 8th grade of our school. I loved them both. They're long gone now.

So are many of their ideas.

I still return to the park from time to time, and I too think of the hardship and death visited on these people.



Jane reads the inscription outside the Illinois Memorial