In this video, Mark and I talk about Federal efforts to dig canals to facilitate their goal of investing the city of Vicksburg, deemed to be the "key" to a Union victory by President Abraham Lincoln. A camp was established at Lake Providence to serve as a base while these operations were going on. Among the soldiers there were at least two women soldiers. In this video, we talk about this location and the women there.
For more, read this previous blog post [HERE].
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