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Confederate earthen fortifications in the Trans-Mississippi

In my humble opinion, outside of Galveston defenses and Sabine Pass, the fortifications built at the mouth of Caney Creek served and important ...

Battle of Grand Gulf - Wikipedia

A Confederate Army division under Brigadier General John S. Bowen prepared defenses—Forts Wade and Cobun—at Grand Gulf, Mississippi, south of Vicksburg. To ...

Fort DeRussy Battle Facts and Summary | American Battlefield Trust

It was not only the headquarters for the Army of the Trans-Mississippi but also a potential gateway for a Union invasion of Confederate Texas. Lead by Maj. Gen ...

Fort Wade - Grand Gulf Military Monument, Mississippi

river for miles. ... march on Vicksburg. ... would not be able to subdue the earthen citadel. ... up and down the Confederate earthworks. ... Gulf from their position.

Map showing the system of Confederate fortifications on the ...

Map Map showing the system of Confederate fortifications on the Mississippi River at Island No. 10 and New Madrid, also the operations of the United States ...

Mississippi Forts

It was occupied by the Confederates for three months (July - October 1861), who then officially named it Fort Twiggs, but it was recaptured by ...

Vicksburg Campaign: Unvexing the Father of Waters

These powerful statements from the sixteenth president were no exaggeration. Confederate cannon mounted along the bluffs commanding the Mississippi River at ...

Fort Cobun - Grand Gulf Military Monument, Mississippi

opened fire on the Confederate artillery emplacements at Forts Cobun and ... The earthen parapet or mound in this photograph protected Confederate ...

Untitled - Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Fort Leflore is among the best extant examples of several small earthen fortifications erected during the Civil War by Confederate troops along the river system.

Vicksburg District > Missions > Recreation > Grenada Lake > History ...

These troops constructed eight forts to protect this strategic rail center. If it were not for the success of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn's infamous ...

The Forlorn Hope: The Attack on Stockade Redan at Vicksburg and ...

One of the key points along the three-mile Confederate line was a series of fortified lines and earthen fortresses guarding the Graveyard Road.

The Siege and Battle of Corinth: A New Kind of War (Teaching with ...

During the Civil War as many as 300,000 soldiers moved through this tiny town in northeastern Mississippi as the Union and the Confederacy fought to control a ...

Siege of Vicksburg - Wikipedia

Vicksburg was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River; therefore, capturing it completed the second part of the Northern strategy, the ...

THE CONFEDERATE UPPER BATTERY SITE, GRAND GULF ...

complex Confederate fortifications at Grand Gulf, Mississippi. Of ... The fortifications, being made of earthen walls, were rather easy to repair.

The Engineers at Vicksburg Part 15: The Forts of Grand Gulf

Rear Adm. David Dixon Porter commanded the Mississippi Squadron throughout the Vicksburg campaign. The naval forces under his command proved a key factor in ...

Edmund Kirby Smith: Rebel Lord of the Trans-Mississippi Theater

Grant captured Forts Henry and Donelson in northern Tennessee, Confederate forces withdrew from the state. ... clay-red color. Navigation on the river was ...

last to surrender: the confederate trans-mississippi army, 1862-1865

The key to Kirby Smith's defensive line in the Red River Valley was Fort DeRussy. Fort. DeRussy was an earthen fortification that boasted a partially armor- ...

Vicksburg Siege - National Park Service

Using picks and shovels, the Confederates constructed a ring of earthen forts and earthworks, focusing around the 3 main roads into the city of ...

Map showing the system of Confederate fortifications on the ...

Title, Map showing the system of Confederate fortifications on the Mississippi River at Island no. 10 and New Madrid : also the operations of the United States ...

At Fort Pillow, Confederates Massacred Black Soldiers After They ...

... Fort Pillow's earthen fortifications ... When he recovered, the Confederates forced him to build fortifications in Alabama, Mississippi and ...