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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 166 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 132 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 110 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 74 0 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 61 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 60 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 58 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 57 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 48 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Points of interest in Louisiana. (search)
situated near the foot of Caddo Lake, in the northwestern part of the State. It is finely located for business on the Red river, being surrounded by an exceedingly fertile planting region, about thirty miles below the "great raft." Since the war Se mouth of the river. Alexandria, one hundred and fifty miles from the mouth, is, we believe, the highest point on Red river ever visited by the enemy before the present expedition. Eighty miles above is Natchitoches, an old French town, sNatchitoches, an old French town, settled in 1713. It is noted in history as the scene of a hard battle between the inhabitants and the Natchez Indians, 1732, resulting in the extinction of the Natchez as a distinct nation. It was formerly situated on the Red river, but that stream Red river, but that stream has "taken a new channel" of about thirty miles in length, and is now about four miles from the town. During high water the old channel is full and navigable for about three months. The remainder of the year it is nearly dry. The place once used to
The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Capture of Plymouth, N. C.--Twenty-five hundred prisoners and thirty pieces of artillery taken. (search)
uilding at Fort Pillow. A telegram from Cairo gives some intelligence relative to the movements of the shipping on Red river. It would appear-- The steamer lke Hammett, from Alexandria, Red river, on the 2d inst, arrived here to day, withRed river, on the 2d inst, arrived here to day, with four more guns from Fort DeRussey, also two barges, containing 800 bales of cotton, prizes to the navy Four thousand bales of cotton are reported to be up the Black and Yazoo rivers. The gunboats Avenger, Ouachita, Chocitin and Lafayette have these rivers to secure the cotton, and two other gunboats have been ordered to assist them, and ten gunboats are up the Red river. This accounts for but one gunboat being at Fort Pillow at the time the rebels attacked it. The Red river is rising. Red river is rising. The steamer Golden Gate, from Memphis for Fort Pillow, laden with boat stores and private freight, was taken possession of by guerillas on the night of the 12th inst., at Bradley's Landing, fifteen miles from Memphis. The boat, passengers, and