In Louisiana, Union forces continue their campaign up the Red River, placing ever more pressure on Confederate forces in the area. Meanwhile, in the Eastern theater of war, the 102nd Illinois Regiment moves out from Lookout Valley, straddling the Tennessee and Georgia state lines, on a scouting expedition southwest-ward to Deer Head Cove, Georgia, near…
As spring hovers on the horizon, this week the Union begins an offensive expedition up the Red River and targeted at Shreveport, Louisiana, the headquarters of Confederate Gen. E. Kirby Smith’s Trans-Mississippi Department. Union Army Maj. General Nathaniel P. Banks and Union Navy Rear Admiral David D. Porter jointly command the combined force. The federals…
Peter Barrow was born a slave near Petersburg, Virginia in 1840. As a child he was taken to a plantation in Alabama. Earlier this year, perhaps when Union naval and army forces invaded and gained control over the Mobile Bay area in February, Barrow, now a young man, managed to escape. Fleeing to Vicksburg, this…