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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 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
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
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
Forrest - Battle of Johnsonville | Famous People of the Late Unpleasantness The defeat of Hood army in December and its retreat across the Tennessee River at Florence necessitaed the establishment of a depot at Eastport, Miss The Sixteenth Corps and Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, wee transferred there at once
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
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 "
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
110th USCT in 1864-5 | Researching Civil War Records Ancestry Looking to see if there's anything on this regiment pertaining to late 1864-early 1865 Pieces of the regiment appears to have stayed in Tennessee, while other pieces joined Sherman in Georgia and later the Carolinas USCT regimental histories are notoriously Not Around, so any help on this
Member Review - NF - Badeau vs Grant - accounts of Confederate . . . The three expeditions which I had tried so hard to get off from the commands of Thomas and Canby did finally get off: one under Canby himself, against Mobile, late in March; that under Stoneman from East Tennessee on the 20th; and the one under Wilson, starting from Eastport, Mississippi, on the 22d of March