Tupelo – Birthplace of Elvis Presley


Thursday, May 30, 2019

Too Much of today was spent catching up on ‘chores’.  The next thing that we knew it was lunch time which we enjoyed in a local bar/grill watching big screen televisions plastered with sports.  We have been so out of it that we were unaware that the Toronto Raptors were in the NBA championship.

This afternoon we spent visiting a Civil War site and museum.  It was a telling of the Battle of Brices Cross Roads in June of 1864.  Brices Cross Roads is about 20 miles west of Tupelo (then called Harrisburg).  By the summer of 1864 the war was going badly for the Confederate Army.  Four of the 11 Confederate States had fallen under the control of the Union.  This battle was an exception.  The outnumbered Confederates, led by Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest, (Forrest had been a private at the beginning of the war) soundly defeated the Union troops.  It was one of the last battles that the Southern forces would win.  Less than a year later, the war was over with the North victorious.

We are moving on tomorrow much further than we had planned.  Our original destination was to be the Jackson/Vicksburg area but accommodation was hard to come by, so we are pushing through to Natchez, the terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway.

Distance Traveled = 125 km.  Wildlife Sightings = Fox, Deer, Mockingbird, Orchard Oriole, Blue jay, Tufted Titmouse, Morning Dove.
P.S.  Yes, Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo Mississippi!


Sunrise over campsite in Trace State Park


Civil War Museum at Baldwyn - Flags of all States who fought in the Civil War

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