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Brashear City (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): entry brashear-city-military-operations-near
Brashear City, military operations near.
This town of Louisiana, afterwards Morgan City, was, at the beginning of the Civil War, in a singular country, composed of fertile plantations, extensiveMorgan City, was, at the beginning of the Civil War, in a singular country, composed of fertile plantations, extensive forests, sluggish lagoons and bayous, passable and impassable swamps, made dark by umbrageous cypress-trees draped with Spanish moss and festooned with interlacing vines, the earth in many places ma ippi and its tributaries.
A single railroad passed through this country from New Orleans to Brashear City, on the Atchafalaya, a distance of 80 miles, at which point the waters of the great bayou Te s, in command of the Department of the Gulf, determined to expel the armed Confederates from Brashear City and its vicinity.
An expedition for that purpose was led by Gen. Godfrey Weitzel, accompani er Com. McKean Buchanan, brother of the commander of the Merrimac (q.v.). They penetrated to Brashear City, and then proceeded (Jan. 11, 1863) to attack the works near Pattersonville.
Weitzel's infa
Pattersonville (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): entry brashear-city-military-operations-near
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): entry brashear-city-military-operations-near
Brashear City, military operations near.
This town of Louisiana, afterwards Morgan City, was, at the beginning of the Civil War, in a singular country, composed of fertile plantations, extensive forests, sluggish lagoons and bayous, passable and impassable swamps, made dark by umbrageous cypress-trees draped with Spanish moss and festooned with interlacing vines, the earth in many places matted and miry, and the waters abounding in alligators.
At that time the whole country was half submerged by the superabundant waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries.
A single railroad passed through this country from New Orleans to Brashear City, on the Atchafalaya, a distance of 80 miles, at which point the waters of the great bayou Teche meet those of the Atchafalaya and others.
Near Pattersonville, on the Teche, the Confederates had erected fortifications, and gathered troops to dispute the passage of these important waters by National gunboats.
Gen. N. P. Banks, in command of the
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (search for this): entry brashear-city-military-operations-near
Godfrey Weitzel (search for this): entry brashear-city-military-operations-near
McKean Buchanan (search for this): entry brashear-city-military-operations-near
January 11th, 1863 AD (search for this): entry brashear-city-military-operations-near