Corinth, MS Rest Day

Sunday, October 5, 2003
Distance Cycled: 0 miles
Our Total Flat Tires on trip to date: 1

We ate a large, leisurely breakfast and then Mary Kay and Becky made reservations at the motels we would be staying at next week. In the afternoon we went to the Civil War Interpretive Center. We also stopped at a civil war house, the Curlee house, originally called the Veranda House), which is now a museum where Joan works part time as a guide. Surveyor Hamilton Mask built the house in 1857. Mask and his brother-in-law had established the town of Corinth a few years earlier. The house interior features 16-foot ceilings with elaborate plaster moldings. The home was used as headquarters for Confederate General Braxton Bragg who was soon joined by General Earl Van Dorn later it was occupied by Union General Henry W. Hallck. Today the home is owned by the city of Corinth.

We then went Baldwyn, MS where Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest with 3,500 troops beat a Union force of 8,000. He did it by being very aggressive with his forces. For example he had his artillery move right up to the front lines before firing on the Union troops with double canister shots. We had so much fun visiting all the sites that we forgot to eat lunch, although we had an excellent dinner, which Joan prepared.