We've been meaning to visit the Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg for so long, and we finally got to it last week. It is really nice. Pics below:
portrait of President Jeff Davis
The sign for the pic above says:
Southern girls sang of their homespun dresses and palmetto hats which they gladly wore, giving up finery for "The Cause." Carrie Bell Sinclair of Augusta, Georgia, composed a song, "The Homespun Dress," sung to the tune of "The Bonnie Blue Flag," proclaiming their patriotism. One verse included these lines:
"My homespun dress is plain, I know,
My hat's palmetto, too,
But then it shows what Southern girls
For Southern rights will do..."
The palmetto star displayed here was an ornament for one of the hats and was made by Nat Bryson of Vicksburg during the War Between the States; he was a child at the time....
"Flag that never surrendered. 21st Mississippi. Brought home from Appomattox by color bearer John M. Collier."
"Flag of Co.I. 28th Reg. Miss. Cav. C.S.A."
This is the **famous** minie ball pregnancy - that this minie ball passed through a soldier and into a fertile young lady...you know the rest. The sign says:
During the battle of Raymond, Miss., in 1863, a minie ball reportedly passed through the reproductive organs of a young lady who was standing on the porch of her nearby home. The story was written 11 years later by Dr. LeGrand G. Capers of Vicksburg for the American Medical Weekly. Capers claimed that he treated the wounds, that the girl became pregnant from the fertile minie ball, that he delivered the baby, introduced the girl to the soldier, that the two were married and had two more children by the normal method! (We don't ask you to believe the story, just enjoy it!)
beautiful squre grand piano
needlework
In the giftshop, they have a mousepad with this image on it
"iron stop plate from the Natchez of racing fame" (the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee steamboats competed against each other in a famous race)
old washtub
wedding dress
old courthouse
old courthouse, looking from other direction
Jeff Davis' rocking chair
room made up with antique furnishings, full-tester bed
kitchen implements
*All* the other pics I made from the museum can be found here at my Flickr set.
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