Western Tennessee

We spent five days in Western Tennessee at Cherokee Landing, a Thousand Trails Campground in Middleton, TN.  This is near the end of the camping season there and this campground showed it by the number of empty campsites.  If you ever have wondered what it would be like to have a whole campground to yourself, well so did we, and this was it.  Not another camper in the whole campground.  Well, almost, we were the only ones in this loop of the park.  There was about 10  campers when we checked in and 5 campers our last weekend.

There were lots of Civil War sites in the area.  One of the largest is Shiloh National Military Park that borders on Tennessee and Mississippi.  We spent several hours touring this area.  We were amazed at the loss of life here.  Almost 24,000 lives were lost here in just one battle.  Another fascinating Civil War site was in Corinth, Mississippi.  We have learned of the personal struggles and compassion shown by both the North and the South.  Such as the Corona College in Corinth; which prior to the war was a school for young southern ladies.  After the Battle of Corinth the school served as a hospital for both sides of the war.  We were always in awe of the history of the Civil War but today we have a stronger grasp of the devotion to the values each side had and their devotion to stand for what is right..

In was amazing that both the north and the south Commanding Generals used the same houses as headquarters (At different times of course.) and that is was not unusual to use private homes of the citizen's as pictured above.

These pictures were from downtown Memphis.  While in Memphis we attended the Memphis Temple.  Also went by Naval Station Millington; which was just north of Memphis.  Carol's dad attended "B" School there and their family lived there for about a year in 1959 before they moved to Virginia. 

Next stop on the tour will be just outside of Knoxville, Tennessee at Raccoon Valley RV Park.