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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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FIRST INDIANA HEAVY ARTILLERY. 1863 ceed General Butler in command of the Department of the Gulf, arrived at New Orleans in the middle of December, 1862, with ordersfrom Halleck to advance up the Mississippi, and (in cooperation with Grant) to hold an unbroken line of communication by land fromNew Orleans to Vicksburg. \^^len this was accomplished he was to occupy the Red River country as a basis for future operations againstTexas. During the winter. Banks confined his attention to operations west of the Mississippi, with varying success. Early in March,at the request of Farragut, who had determined to run past the Port Hudson batteries with his fleet. Banks moved forward with aboutseventeen thousand men to make a demonstration against that place with his artillery. He did not get near enough to do this, how-ever, and was still building bridges when near midnight of March 14th Farraguts guns began to boom from the river.
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THE LAST STRONGHOLD ON THE MISSISSIPPI Confederate Fortifications on tlie ))luff overlooking the Mississippi at Port Hudson, Louisiana. At PortHudson the east bank of the i-i\er rises steeply in a bluff eighty feet high, forming a perfect natural fortress.When Breckinridge failed in his attempt to recapture Baton Rouge in 18G2, he retired to Port Hudson,thirty miles farther up the river, and by the middle of August the fortifying of that i)lace was well advanced,the object being to hold the Mississip))i liotween this ))()int and Vicksburg, so tliat su;)plies coming fromArkansas In- way of the Red River would not be cut off from the Confederacy. Within the heavy parapets,twenty feet thick, the Confederates mounted twenty siege-guns along the lihifT, completely commandingthe river. It was therefore no light task that Farragut took upon himself when on the night of March14th he attempted to run by these batteries with his fleet. Five of his seven vessels were disabled, theMississippi riH

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