The Port Gibson Battlefield was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is 2,080 acres (840 ha), more than two square miles. A somewhat larger, overlapping area, the Port Gibson Battle Site, was designated a National Historic Landmark and automatically listed on the National Register in 2005. The NRHP site includes some area not covered in the NHL listing (see p. 34 of NHL document). Both areas include the Shaiffer House, which was located in one area of intense fighting in the 1863 battle, and which still stands.
An NRHP-listed segment of the historic Natchez Trace trail, the Old Natchez Trace (No. 132-3T) is on the battlefield area. Its documentation includes a photo of the Shaiffer house and other photos of the battlefield.
Famous quotes containing the words port, gibson and/or battlefield:
“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“He’d been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he’d found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It’s the meat talking, ignore it.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it’s be brave or else be killed.”
—Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)