CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

 

High Tide on the Mississippi

Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Jackson,

May-July 1863:

 1st Regiment Heavy, Pointe Coupee Battalion, 5th Company, Washington Battalion, 2nd Battery Artillery; 9th, 30th Battalions, 3rd, 4th, 16th, 26th, 27th, 29th, Miles' Legion Regiments Infantry  

The Acadians in Gray on the Mississippi succumb to the genius of Ulysses S. Grant and the lesser skills of Nathaniel P. Banks.  

Copyright (c) 2001-04  Steven A. Cormier