Show historic spots of south will become memorials MEMPHIS the forts and battlefields where thousands of southerners died during the civil war may be turned into a series of parks and memorials throughout the mississippi valley F marion rust superintendent of the dr thomas walker park at har bo urville ky has started to get various states in the area interested in the projects eastern seaboard states lo 10 long g ago go developed their historic spots rust said by doing that they added an important source of wealth and deepened the interest of tourists but states along the mississippi have been negligent rust told of a trip down the mississippi a sis is looking for civil war battle s sites ites at island no 10 where a really great battle was fought little or nothing of the once vast earthworks earthworms earth works could be found he said at fort pillow tenn however an immense fortification still was intact most interesting point was at fort wright near randolph tenn w where here the earthworks earthworms earth works are almost intact and in good condition the underground der ground brick double barrel pow der magazine probably the only one left in the country and the great military cistern built by confederate troops to guard against possible water shortage still are in fairly good repair the fort wright area would lend itself to a beautiful memorial park he said rust bust believes least two more battlefields ie vicinity ot of vicksburg miss uld be memorialized zed in connect connector on oa with the military park there these two he said would be haynes bluff on the mississippi where gen william T sherman had his forces cut to pieces and champion hill where pemberton lost to the federal army the old town of port hudson la is no more rust bust said but from maps we found actual gun positions that nothing has been done to memorialize the ruins there is almost unbelievable |