High_tech_redneck406

I was born and raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Are there any odd or interesting facts regarding statues, monuments, or otherwise historical locations inside or outside of the park there that as a local I may have never known?

A Confederate historian who's not been to... alrighty.

Vicksburg was the site of a significant conflict between Union and Confederate forces. There are over 1,000 monuments in the National Military Park alone I additions of other points and objects of historical significance.

Keep your false equivalence to yourself. You'd have been better off saying an astronomer whose never peered through a telescope or microbiologist who has never been inside of a lab.

Would it make sense to call myself an expert on 19th century US history, specifically pioneers and the 1840s if I had not even visited Springfield, Fort Laramie, Fort Bridger, or even Donner Pass?