JimKindred
07-16-2004, 10:35 AM
From the Friday, July 16th edition of the Daily Corinthian http://www.dailycorinthian.com/
Center hoping to tell more than just war stories
On the high hill at Battery Robinett sits the story of America’s bloodiest and most divisive struggle.
The story told within the rugged walls of the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center is the story of a country divided and a community invaded. As National Park Service Ranger Jim Minor explained, the goal of the center is to help visitors understand not only the events surrounding the fighting at Corinth and Shiloh, but the causes and aftermath of the war itself.
“When people go to Shiloh, they will pick up from that point,” he said. He wants Corinth to be different, with visitors to the new center gaining a sense of the larger story and the reasons this remote corner of Northeast Mississippi and Western Tennessee became a vital part of the Civil War.
After parking in the lower parking lot off of Linden Street, visitors will follow a curving pathway up the hill to the front doors of the center. Along the way they will find bronze casts of rifles, cartridges, belt buckles and other military items, as if they were thrown away by an army on the move. The artifacts will serve as a reminder to visitors they are standing on a battlefield.
Upon entering the center, the tour will begin with an exhibit focusing on the path to war and the political and social forces which led to the disintegration of the country. Illustrated with large maps and photographs, Minor said the first exhibit is meant to depict the two types of societies which emerged during the years prior to the war and the political compromises and decisions which ultimately led to the secession of the southern states.
The most striking visual impression of the center’s front rooms is the high, paneled ceiling with its crisscrossed timbers and the light streaming from the building’s large windows.
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".......America’s bloodiest and most divisive struggle."
Not sure where they got this, more than a few people around here have questioned that comment but it is advertising.
Center hoping to tell more than just war stories
On the high hill at Battery Robinett sits the story of America’s bloodiest and most divisive struggle.
The story told within the rugged walls of the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center is the story of a country divided and a community invaded. As National Park Service Ranger Jim Minor explained, the goal of the center is to help visitors understand not only the events surrounding the fighting at Corinth and Shiloh, but the causes and aftermath of the war itself.
“When people go to Shiloh, they will pick up from that point,” he said. He wants Corinth to be different, with visitors to the new center gaining a sense of the larger story and the reasons this remote corner of Northeast Mississippi and Western Tennessee became a vital part of the Civil War.
After parking in the lower parking lot off of Linden Street, visitors will follow a curving pathway up the hill to the front doors of the center. Along the way they will find bronze casts of rifles, cartridges, belt buckles and other military items, as if they were thrown away by an army on the move. The artifacts will serve as a reminder to visitors they are standing on a battlefield.
Upon entering the center, the tour will begin with an exhibit focusing on the path to war and the political and social forces which led to the disintegration of the country. Illustrated with large maps and photographs, Minor said the first exhibit is meant to depict the two types of societies which emerged during the years prior to the war and the political compromises and decisions which ultimately led to the secession of the southern states.
The most striking visual impression of the center’s front rooms is the high, paneled ceiling with its crisscrossed timbers and the light streaming from the building’s large windows.
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".......America’s bloodiest and most divisive struggle."
Not sure where they got this, more than a few people around here have questioned that comment but it is advertising.