Solitary Rocker
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Solitary Rocker
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
An old rope seated rocker sitting beside a fireplace and a lantern are all the furnishings that remain in this old dogtrot log cabin. The cabin was originally built in 1768 and moved to Grand Gulf Military Park in 1976.
Grand Gulf Military Park, is located on land that was once the town of Grand Gulf, a now extinct Mississippi River Port. In its heyday, it was 76 square blocks with 1000 to 1500 people living here. The population's rapid decline started with a yellow fever epidemic, and then a tornado struck the town. Finally, the river changed course taking 50 city blocks with it. What was left, the Civil War finished off.
It is said; no town in Mississippi felt the sting of the Civil War worse than Grand Gulf. When the Union started working its way up the river, Baton Rouge and Natchez fell quickly, but Vicksburg refused to surrender. With the waterways blocked the Union transports were left waiting near Grand Gulf. Confederate forces were sent to fire on the Union boats. In reprisal, the Union fired on the town. After four weeks of constant bombardment, Union forces partially burned Grand Gulf. Undaunted, Confederates continued their attack, and the Union retaliated by torching what remained.
Other than the Military Park Museum and a few historic buildings collected from the area, Grand Gulf is a ghost town and now part of Port Gibson, Mississippi.
Copyright 2019 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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November 6th, 2019
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