May 3  Yankees Build a Fort in Natchez
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-05-03

Kathy Swafford presents a Natchez History Minute about the completion of Fort McPherson, the Federal fortification that briefly dominated the landscape of occupied Natchez.  In his diary entry for this day, May 3 in 1865, a Union soldier notes that the fort is nearing completion.