Mississippi

By Travelog Editorial Team · Updated August 8, 2026

Mississippi is live on Travelog with one city, Vicksburg, home to Vicksburg National Military Park. The 1863 siege here lasted 47 days before Confederate forces surrendered on July 4, 1863. Entrance costs $10-20 per vehicle for 7 days. The park's USS Cairo Museum, open daily 8:30am-4:30pm, preserves the USS Cairo, the first armored warship ever sunk by an electrically detonated mine, in December 1862, later rediscovered in 1956 and raised between 1964 and 1977.

The USS Cairo's story, a historic naval first followed by decades underwater and a documented 20th-century rediscovery, is worth understanding before visiting, covered in full below.