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Eastport | Shiloh Pittsburg Landing When they were building the railroad through the area Eastport didn’t think they needed the railway so it was constructed in Iuka instead Needless to say, that was a horrible idea and many homes and businesses were moved to Iuka and Eastport began to fade away
Confederate Gunboats on the Tennessee River | Naval War - At Sea . . . Later, he explicitly mentions the Eastport at Cerro Gordo, so that accounts for one, and I think we are all on board with that identification The other two are where my query lies On January 19, 1862, Shirk take the Lexington up the Tennessee and mentions spotting two of the still-incomplete gunboats near the fort
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 ironclads: started but not finished Have come across a few names of ironclads that were started but never completed for one reason or another Weldon steam battery, Improved Albemarle, Tar river (Pamlico), Wilmington, Mr Graves' boat, Mr Porter's boat, Mississippi, Yazoo Monster, Tennessee I, Ashley, Cooper Could y'all build
History of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment 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 this port, where it was loaded on wagons and carried to its destination
Aot - 1865 | South Western Theaters 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
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
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
CSS Mobile Ironclad | Naval War - At Sea Along Inland Waterways CSS Mobile as an ironclad Class: ironclad gunboat Type: Eastport Dimensions: 150ft OA x 28ft EX x 7 5ft D, 450tons One screw, speed 8 knots estimated Guns: 1 -8” MLR, 1 -32pd MLR, 1 -32pdr SB Armour: probably 2” over 12” timber on the casemate Design; I N Brown
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 "