Port
Hudson
Last Bastion on the Mississippi
-- Taken with
the first major Black regiment in the Union --
By Pedro Garcia
Letters
from Col. Nelson, Organizer of the Louisiana Guards
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Drafting the first Blacks into Union
service, a young Colonel wins
the longest siege in America's history,
then is court-marshaled for doing so. |
Port Hudson
Last Bastion on the
Mississippi
By Pedro Garcia
5˝ x 8˝ Softcover
148 Pages - 80 Illustrations
-- 1st Black Regiment of the Civil War --
Based upon a first person account
40 Unpublished Photos from the 1860s
ISBN: 978-1891030-47-5
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Original
Letters on the
Last Battle of the Mississippi
and the Story of the
First Black Regiment
of the Civil War
As far north as the Ohio River valley, the
Mississippi River represented commerce to the Union. After a
year of regaining control, only two ports were still in Southern
hands: Vicksburg in Mississippi and Port Hudson in Louisiana.
Confederate forces spent seven months fortifying an eight mile
stretch of the river, constructing nine forts. But the Union
forces were too much, for Vicksburg was taken on July 4, 1863 –
the day after Gettysburg – and Port Hudson surrendered five days
later, opening the Mississippi River to the Union.
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"When
I became aware of the availability of the manuscripts
of Lt. Col. John A. Nelson, commander of the Union’s
3rd Louisiana Native Guards, I knew of no one else who
could do justice to the material -- an unpublished account
of Port Hudson, plus the added situation of the conscription
of blacks by Nelson."
-- Publisher Douglas Westfall
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