Explore the effect of various wars on Greenwood and its citizens and exhibits uniforms, veteran lists, victory posters, and artifacts from the war and the home front.

The Battle of Fort Pemberton near Greenwood was a significant engagement of the Union’s Yazoo Pass Expedition, an attempt by Major General Ulysses S. Grant to bypass Vicksburg’s river defenses to take the city. There is also a Civil War-era cannon and a model of the battle of nearby Fort Pemberton.

The Star of the West, an ocean steamer that received the first shots of the Civil War near Ft. Sumter, met its final fate in March 1863 during the Yazoo Pass Expedition.