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Why not a tour?

With nine months remaining in the sesquicentennial, it would be great if some enterprising organization, institution or individuals would sponsor a statewide CW tour, say next spring. Here's a rough suggestion of itinerary. Could begin at Confederate Museum in NO and visit Magnolia Cemetery for Battle of BR then Port Hudson in the first day, overnight in BR. Then the Bayou Lafourche and Bayou Teche campaigns the second day, overnight in Lafayette. Up to Mansfield, overnight in Natchitoches third day. Then Alexandria, Fort Buhlow, Banks' retreat, then ending with Camp Moore and return to NO that evening. A visit to Fort Jackson to begin would be nice, but its isolated position would present time and distance difficulties. This would take a lot of planning and logistics and would obviously cost several hundred dollars, but it could be done. We have plenty of experts in the state on the various campaigns, such as Gary Joiner for Red River, etc. What do y'all think?

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