Stiles/Akin
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2016
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
by the winter of 1863, the Mississippi River was in Union hands except for the stretch between Vicksburg, Mississippi and Port Hudson, Louisiana. The Union Navy was busy trying to secure the Mississippi as the Union Army prepared for the upcoming spring campaigns against Vicksburg and Port Hudson.
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The Red River empties into the Mississippi between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and was a vital waterway for providing supplies of all types to these Confederate garrisons. To disrupt this supply line from Texas and northwest Louisiana, Admiral David D. Porter decided to try running some of his river gunboats south past the formidable Vicksburg artillery batteries.
https://ironbrigader.com/2012/06/10...jnB_d5mj9zCQSUBvBrejdco5DHf_Gs-USP1y7HnXlIkbw
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The Red River empties into the Mississippi between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and was a vital waterway for providing supplies of all types to these Confederate garrisons. To disrupt this supply line from Texas and northwest Louisiana, Admiral David D. Porter decided to try running some of his river gunboats south past the formidable Vicksburg artillery batteries.
https://ironbrigader.com/2012/06/10...jnB_d5mj9zCQSUBvBrejdco5DHf_Gs-USP1y7HnXlIkbw
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