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>Mike, Been doing some research on how men could have >been captured at Port Hudson and may have an idead? > In the middle of June Gen'l Taylor collected at >Shreveport a small army of roughly 9 thousand men. >They were divided into three "wings" Col James P. >Major a dashing cava;ry officer, Gen's Mouton ad Green >with infantry. During the second week of June 1863 >they made a bold dash in the rear and oppisite of Port >Hudson, driving in the pickets, striking the town of >Plaquemine of the Mississippi, capturing the garrison, >destroying steamers, they swung around Donaldsonville >and swung around the platation area gobbling up small >groups of men. There were later assaults upon >Lafourche and Brashear, and Berwick Bay. Fianlly >reenforcements from New Orleans themselves drove back >the raiders. prehaps this is how some of the 165th SNY >ended up captured outside the lines...Dusty
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