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Eastport | Shiloh Pittsburg Landing - American Civil War Forums Eastport was a trading post for flatboats The river was very different then It was very shallow when you get past Shiloh You could wade across it at such points as Waterloo and muscle shoals Eastport as my ancestors knew it was wiped out when the river was dammed
Forgotten Forts Series - Fort Sullivan (ME) Eastport, which actually predates Fort Sullivan, is the easternmost city in the US and is the last bit of territory returned by the Brits There is very little left today, as you say: the old powder house and some barracks (the barracks now house the Border Historical Society which is trying to replicate and restore)
Confederate Gunboats on the Tennessee River | Naval War - At Sea . . . No, I said Phelps signed the plan of the Eastport which is the Union completion and NOT the Brown conversion Phelps didn't know the ID's of the other vessels although he apparently knew they had been started The two sidewheelers named are from CSN records and letters and are listed in the Special Appendix to the Civil War Naval Chronology
History of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment Stone had been a clerk in the mercantile establishment of Colonel Price, the largest landowner and merchant in Eastport, Mississippi, on the Tennessee River Eastport at that time was the home of wealth and culture, the head of all year navigation on the Tennessee River, and freight from all points for east Mississippi and west Alabama came to
Confederate ironclads: started but not finished In Chris E Fonvielle's recent To Forge a Thunderbolt: Fort Anderson and the Battle for Wilmington (NC Starburst Press, 2015), he indicates that Wilmington was being constructed at the "Confederate Navy Yard" on Eagles Island across from Wilmington (p 109); elsewhere, he notes that the "Confederate Navy Yard" was a nickname or alternate name for Benjamin W and William L Beery's shipyard
Forrest - Streights Alabama Raid | Famous People of the Late . . . From Nashville, Tennessee, Streight's command traveled to Eastport, Mississippi, and then proceeded east to Tuscumbia, Alabama, in conjunction with another Union force commanded by Brig Gen Grenville Dodge On April 26, 1863, Streight's men left Tuscumbia and marched southeast, their initial movements screened by Dodge's troops
Union Steamboats to Shiloh | Shiloh Pittsburg Landing "Before I arrived at Savannah, Sherman, who had joined the Army of the Tennessee and been placed in command of a division, had made an expedition on steamers convoyed by gunboats to the neighborhood of Eastport, thirty miles south, for the purpose of destroying the railroad east of Corinth "
Aot - 1865 | South Western Theaters - American Civil War Forums Croxton crossed the Tennessee River without opposition and moved through Eastport, then, turning southwest, marched his brigade to Iuka, on the Memphis Charleston Railroad From this place Croxton marched his command on through Burnsville to Corinth, skirmishing lightly on the way and picking up a few prisoners
How was Memphis captured so easily? | South Western Theaters The Eastport was towed back to St Louis and finished as the USS Eastport and rivaled the USS Benton as the most powerful Union ironclad of the Mississippi Naval Squadron until the Red River Campaign of 1864 where she was lost The "what if" of Henry-Donelson was if the CSS Eastport was operational during that February 1862 campaign
Foundrys and other commercial assets at Memphis and Vicksburg The iron plate intended for the Arkansas was delivered instead to Cerro Gordo, Tennessee, the construction site of CSS Eastport Consequently, Shirley obtained T-rails to armor Arkansas from railroad rails in Memphis and across the river in Arkansas Bolts were fabricated at the Cumberland Iron Works; yet, they were used by other ships William N