You start at the Natchez Visitor Center for instructions and maps. The tour can be completely done from your vehicle and estimated time for it would be about 75 minutes.
Several of the sites were directly linked to Fort McPherson, including the fort itself.
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Located at North Canal Street and Madison Street intersection, was the site of the former fort. Soon after their arrival in Natchez on July 13, 1863, Federal troops began the creation of Fort McPherson, a large earthwork in the northern suburbs of the city.
It was designed by Captain Peter Hains on the Engineering Corps. The fortification could accommodate 5,000 troops and provided an unobstructed view of the river and surrounding countryside.
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CLIFTON Federal troops destroyed he palatial home of Frank and Charlotte Surget, because it impeded the construction of the fort. After touring the property before its destruction, Union General Thomas Kilby Smith remarked that "one continuously wonders that such a paradise could be created here on earth."
--Old Secesh
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