Vicksburg/Natchez, Mississippi

September 1st – 7th, 2023

Single – $1950 / Double pp – $1500

Journey into the deep south and explore the Civil War and antebellum history of Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi. Visit the Vicksburg National Battlefield Park including the Illinois Monument and the USS Cairo gunboat. Learn about General Grant and the involvement of Illinois troops in the famous battle by a professional battlefield guide. Enjoy a tour of old Vicksburg by the great-great grandson of Jefferson Davis and learn how the citizens endured the siege of their town. You’ll have some free time to shop and eat on your own. In Natchez visit plantation and antebellum home of impressive architecture, gardens and landscape. Visit Longwood, Rosalie, D’Evereaux, and others as time allows. Enjoy a sunset dinner on the banks of the Mississippi at Natchez Under the Hill, once known as the “murderest” place in the country. After dinner enjoy a local storyteller and tales of the debauchery at the second busiest slave port in the country. You’ll also visit the old slave market now a memorial park where members of the Illinois USCT liberated slaves and burned down the holding pens. On the way home we’ll overnight in Memphis and take in the National Civil Rights Museum. And finally on the last leg home we;ll make a stop at Ft. Pillow where the massacre of USCT infuriated Lincoln.

This trip includes stops at 3 historic sites represented inside the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum; Windsor Ruins and Dunleith represented in the Tim Russert video, and Ft. Pillow represented in the Civil War in Four Minutes video.

Friends, this trip is intended to be a premium educational and historical experience! We hope you return home having had fun and memorable experience but also with a deeper understanding of the Civil War and the Antebellum South.