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Island number10.
This island lies in a sharp bend of the Mississippi River, about 40 miles below Columbus, and within the limits of Kentucky.
At the beginning of the Civil War it was considered the key to the navigation of the lower Mississippi.
To this island some of the troops and munitions of war were transferred when General Polk evacuated Columbus, and all the troops there were in charge of Beauregard.
On March 8, 1862, he sent forth a proclamation in which he called for bells with which to make cannon, and there was a liberal response.
In some cities, wrote a Confederate soldier, every church gave up its bells.
Court-houses, public institutions, and plantations sent them.
And the people furnished large quantities of old brass—andirons, candlesticks, gasfixtures, and even door-knobs.
These were all sent to New Orleans to be used in cannon foundries.
There they were found by General Butler, sent to Boston, and sold at auction.
Beauregard had thoroughly fortified th