Started down the Tenn-Tom Waterway to Mobile

Visited the Corinth Civil War Museum with some new friends from Georgia, Carol and Eric on CaroLinn. This is about 25 miles SW of Shiloh Battlefield.
This was important as two major railways crossed here and both the South and the North wanted to control this.
When the North took this area the slaves were somewhat freed but were considered Contraband. They started working for an income at that point.

We found an awesome local restaurant called "Cindy's Place" in Corinth.
You could ordered a meat and three sides. I had grilled chicken, turnip greens, black eyed peas, corn salad, and a corn muffin. Angie gave me a couple of her fried green tomatoes.

The Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway was finished in the 1980's.Basically giving a route from the
Tennessee River to Mobile AL  More earth was moved in this build than the Panama Canal.
Passed a tow was a little tighter than the Tennessee, Ohio, or Mississippi Rivers.

Beautiful Morning

The highest/lowest  lift/drop in the Tenn-Tom Waterway.
84 feet. Whitten Lock.
 A crude oil barge ruptured in this lock about and month ago and it took them a couple weeks to clean up the spill.

Passed by a wood chip/mulch yard and loaded barges.
This is a Scott's Lawn facility so probably ground by a Vermeer Grinder.
I visited a Scott's bark grinding operation in Fulton MS running a Vermeer Tub Grinder,
where we are staying at  Midway Marina tonight, Tuesday.