Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: September 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807119617
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Port Hudson (La.); History - Military / War; History: American; USA; Siege, 1863; Military - General; United States - Civil War; History; 1861-1865, Civil War; Campaigns; United States
First sentence: On a topographical map, the great river system that flows through the American heartland resembles nothing less than a huge arterial network, a lifeline that before the Civil War provided the farmers of the Midwest with access to world markets through New Orleans, the most important port on the Gulf of Mexico.