Please join us for a campout to visit the Vicksburg National Battle field. We will be camping at a nearby Boy Scout Troop campground "Camp Wilkerson". We will get to hike the battle field while we learn more about this historic site. This will count towards Citizenship in the Nation requirement 2a & d. 

We will leave CBF at 8:30 AM Saturday January 16th and return Monday (MLK holiday) in the late afternoon. More details soon. Fee is $55.00 per scout or adult. Please sign up by January 9, 2021. 

This is from the website; Anxious for a quick victory, Grant made a hasty reconnaissance of the Vicksburg defenses and ordered an assault. Of his three corps, however, only one was in proper position to make the attack — Sherman's corps along the Graveyard Road, northeast of Vicksburg. Early on the morning of May 19, Union artillery opened fire and bombarded the Confederate works with solid shot and shell.

With lines neatly dressed and their battle flags blowing in the breeze above them, Sherman's troops surged across the rugged terrain at 2:00 p.m., through abatis (obstructions of felled trees) laid out by the Confederates, toward Stockade Redan. Although the men of the 1st Battalion, 13th United States Infantry, planted their colors on the exterior slope of Stockade Redan (a powerful Confederate fort which guarded the road), the attack was repulsed with Federal losses numbering 1,000 men. The 13th US Infantry, still in existance today, proudly uses the motto "First at Vicksburg."

You can read more here. basicinfo.htm

 Please join us to help with Jacob Sims Eagle Scout project on December 12 at 2PM. We will meet near the troop trailers, everyone attending should wear a mask and bring a water bottle and work gloves. We will be planting several trees on CBF property near the playground.