Event: Civil War Walking Tour of Old Cahawba
Time: Saturday, April 5, 2014, from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
Cost: $6 per person
Event website: www.cahawba.com
Contact: Contact Old Cahawba at 334-872-8058 for more information
Info: In the waning days of the Civil War, flooding pushed the waters of the Cahaba and Alabama rivers over their banks and across the town of Cahawba leaving over three thousand Union army prisoners of war standing for days in knee deep river. Finally released from captivity, many made their way to Vicksburg and boarded the ill fated riverboat Sultana only to perish on their way home in the worst maritime disaster in U.S. History.

This tour will visit Castle Morgan, the POW camp at Old Cahawba and explore the plight of these unfortunate soldiers as well as the privations of the town’s confederate residents who suffered while their husbands, fathers and sons were off to war, many never to return.