Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Plaquemine, Louisiana” in article 20 of The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
... 210 guns, about a mile and a quarter.
There is a water battery in advance of Fort McRee mounting ten heavy guns.
A Memphis paper, announcing the arrival of a company of volunteers from Plaquemine, Louisiana , says:
"All the officers had sword belts made of rattlesnake skins, while the privates wore a rattlesnake rattle in their caps."
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