[OT]US Civil War (the first one)

2 posts · Mar 14 2002 to Mar 14 2002

From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:14:32 -0800 (PST)

Subject: Re: [OT]US Civil War (the first one)

> --- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> JohnA said:

From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:56:02 -0600

Subject: Re: [OT]US Civil War (the first one)

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:14:32 -0800 (PST), John Atkinson
> <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Of course, Louisiana had mostly

No, it had been taken over. But the state government hadn't surrendered; it
shifted its base to Shreveport. Holding on and defeating Banks in the Red
River campaign in 1864 freed up Confederate forces in Mobile, which probably
led to the extension of the war by a few months.

On the other hand, Tennessee had been completely taken over by 1863.