Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Sat, 2013-07-13 01:59
This is the "living map" where in "Ambuscade" and The Unvanquished Bayard and Ringo re-create the fighting at Vicksburg, Mississippi. It is located "behind the smokehouse" of the Sartoris plantation and is constructed of "just a handful of chips from the woodpile"; the "Mississippi River" has been "scraped into the packed earth with the point of a hoe" and filled with water fetched from the well (3, 3). As the last remaining Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River the actual Vicksburg was the scene of almost a dozen battles between the end of 1862 and July 1863.
