Th Civil War Happened Here

last month took  a flight to texas ended up in brownsville,did you know the park service has a mexican war site there?palo alto -pristine, with a visitor center-check it out anyway rode down to  the coast to see palmito ranch last battle of the civil war.just  acouple markers but area mostly looks like it did this fight shouldnt have happened as texas had been out of the war for about a year.this was june 1865 rebs had taken us fort sometime before in brownsville,us wanted it back.usa marches along rio grande from base near mouth of that river.rip ford bests  the usa on the palmito ranch property[now a wildlfe preserve or something like that] from there drove up to corpus christie grat beaches great town-the uss lexington one of the most famous of all the ww2 aircraft carriers is ther in the harbor cemented to the bay?bed?-the cw happened here too.small affairs between locals and usa navy i then .drove northward into arkansas stop at camden,poisen springs and ,jenkins ferry,and marks mills[red river campaign-the camden expeditition-the yanks were to hook up with nat banks coming up the red river in april 1864 but things go astray.went to arkansas post saw an alligator might be  my ist on a civil war site.drive to helena on the miss river great visitor center and delta historty musuemwith a dj live doing his radio show-helena was a battle tied to the vicksburg campaign and has a few sites left they hope to have a driving tour in the future.the waterfront is very nice the sultanna made a stop here on her last voyage up the river in april 1865 i cross the river into mississippi headig south tyo vicksburg.right before that city i tour the area that fiqured in the battle of chickasas bayou or bluffs literally next to the siege lines this wll end now ill finish later-vicksburg,grand gulf,and port gibson…      kevin a kearns