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Podcast: Battles Of The American Civil War
Episode: Yazoo City | Fort De Russy | Laredo | Paducah
Description: We start off this week's episode with the battle of Yazoo City, Mississippi on March 5th, 1864 where Union Colonel James Coates was attacked by Confederate BG Lawrence Ross. At the battle of Fort De Russy On March 14th in Louisiana, General Nathaniel Banks and his forces look to capture Shreveport which was the Confederate headquarters west of the Mississippi. The very small battle of Laredo in Texas on March 18th saw the Union fail to stop Confederates from transporting cotton bales into Mexico. Lastly, the battle of Paducah on March 24th in Kentucky sees Confederate MG Nathan Bedford Forrest try...