The Battle of Champion Hill (Jackson, Vicksburg: subdivision, suburb, land)

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Have you heard of it? It was a serious battle between Jackson and Vicksburg in 1863 as part of the Vicksburg Campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Champion_Hill

But there is no park at the site. The land is mostly private property.

https://goo.gl/maps/vpwCbUCwHfD2

[mrgoodwx]

My 2nd great grandfather fought at Champion Hill. I think it was also called Baker's Creek. He got through that just fine but was shot twice at the battle in Franklin TN in November 1864.

[Desert kid]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

Have you heard of it? It was a serious battle between Jackson and Vicksburg in 1863 as part of the Vicksburg Campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Champion_Hill

But there is no park at the site. The land is mostly private property.

https://goo.gl/maps/vpwCbUCwHfD2

I have a buddy on CivilWarTalk.com that likes to visit that area.

[Madeline2121]

They do a reenactment there each year.

[Dd714]

Yes I have heard of the battle, part of Grant's successful and quite ingenious Vicksburg campaign.
Let's hope it's not plowed over into a subdivision. Vicksburg otherwise has some excellent preserved civil war battle sights, including an old gun boat pulled out of the swamps.

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Originally Posted by Dd714

Yes I have heard of the battle, part of Grant's successful and quite ingenious Vicksburg campaign.
Let's hope it's not plowed over into a subdivision. Vicksburg otherwise has some excellent preserved civil war battle sights, including an old gun boat pulled out of the swamps.

Since it's between Edwards and Bolton, I think it is too far away to turn into a suburb of Vicksburg of Jackson.

[Cryptic]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

Have you heard of it? It was a serious battle between Jackson and Vicksburg in 1863 as part of the Vicksburg Campaign.

But there is no park at the site. The land is mostly private property.

I once patronized a business that was on a portion of the old battle field.

[Listener2307]

Originally Posted by Madeline2121

They do a reenactment there each year.

I was in a war once. For a long time it reenacted itself. Eventually, it stopped and I resumed my life. Good.

Civil War battle reenactments are the greatest mystery in the world to me. Maybe I understood it once, but that would have been 1955 and I was only 10 years old. I didn't have much of an idea who Nazis might be, but I knew it was my duty to mow 'em all down with my stick machine gun. And kill any survivors with my pine-cone hand grenades.
But now? Real, grown up people pretending to shoot at each other, falling down, and then getting back up to shoot some more? Doesn't make much sense to me.

I wonder how many veterans of wars actually take part in that stuff.

[Desert kid]

Originally Posted by Listener2307

I was in a war once. For a long time it reenacted itself. Eventually, it stopped and I resumed my life. Good.

Civil War battle reenactments are the greatest mystery in the world to me. Maybe I understood it once, but that would have been 1955 and I was only 10 years old. I didn't have much of an idea who Nazis might be, but I knew it was my duty to mow 'em all down with my stick machine gun. And kill any survivors with my pine-cone hand grenades.
But now? Real, grown up people pretending to shoot at each other, falling down, and then getting back up to shoot some more? Doesn't make much sense to me.

I wonder how many veterans of wars actually take part in that stuff.

Is it any worse than the Renaissance Fair?

At least at those you get beer and whole baked chicken legs.

At Civil War reenactments you get to have smoke and dirt shot in your face, wear wool in 100+ degree heat, load a heavy-azz musket around and load it from the muzzle.

Having personally known alot of Civil War reenactors, I think it just comes off much more fun, now somebody please hand me a bayonet...

[JacksonPanther]

Originally Posted by Listener2307

I wonder how many veterans of wars actually take part in that stuff.

I would bet almost none. Certainly no one who ever raised a weapon during battle would ever participate in a reenactment.

Maybe someone who never saw action would do it...