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| Grand Ecore |
| Florian was not at Montgomery. I was released from Cemetery Duty. I didn't want to retrace my ride and Natchitoches was so close I figured I'd just cross the river and go down old La.1. A bad idea, I get them sometimes. I wanted to find Grand Ecore, but figured it was way north and out of my range for today. Wrong, I crossed and became as excited as a kid on Christmas morning. Look what the Corps of Engineers has gone and done. (La.6, just west of the Red River Bridge) |
| You walk in the place and out the back door. This is what hits you. It reminded me of Natchez. |
| I browsed around and talked to the fellow there. I thought General Green had been killed here but I was mistaken. That happened up the river. This was a meeting place for Banks and Porter. Col. Grant, yes the same, had been stationed here in the Mexican War.. |
| "At Grand Ecore, near Natchitoches, Banks was rejoined on 15 Apr. by the Porter-Kilby Smith force. The latter had gotten 30 miles up the river before being stopped on the 10th by an obstruction. At Blair's Landing (also called Pleasant Hill Landing), on the 12th, the naval expedition was attacked by Thomas Green's cavalry (750 horses and two batteries, according to Taylor, p. 215). The Confederates broke off the engagement after inflicting seven casualties on the gunboats and 50 on the transports and suffering "scarcely a casualty except the death of General Green [killed], an irreparable one." |
| Remember the Fort DeRussy Article? Click to go there. |
| Fighting the Flood of 1945. Look at the bridge. |
| I rode down to the landing and back through the back swamp. I decided to bite the bullet and go back the way I'd come, down US 71 because of what the fella at the center had told me. He led me to the place below. |
| Dinner on the Lawn, a Southern Celebration. |
| I walked the cemetery but the residents were too young. |
| When I quickly wrote the first sentence on this page, I wrote, "Florian was at Montgomery". I am spooked. I often leave out words, letters in words, and so on. Was this a goof or a message? Damn. |
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