at October 1st, Historical Association Meeting
What was it like to know a huge Union fleet was coming up the Mississippi River, capable of overwhelming Forts Jackson and St Philip and attacking your meager artillery post at Chalmette. Then once destroyed, they would travel upstream to New Orleans to potentially wipe-out your home and kill many of your friends and relatives. That was the delima of Captain John Roy during the Civil War “Bat...
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