The siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins: After two failed frontal assaults, Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, commanding the compulsory Union Department of the Gulf (of Mexico) surrounds the last free city on the Mississippi River.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 176.
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