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  2. Fort Jackson, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Fort Jackson is a historic masonry fort located 40 miles (64 km) up river from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It was constructed as a coastal defense of New Orleans , between 1822 and 1832, and it was a battle site during the American Civil War . [ 2 ]

  3. 1st Louisiana Field Battery - Wikipedia

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    A detachment of the St. Mary's Cannoneers led by First Lieutenant George O. Foot along with B and D Companies of the 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery were assigned to man the Fort Jackson water battery. This consisted of two rifled 32-pounder guns , three 32-pounder smoothbore guns, one 10-inch Columbiad , one 9-inch Columbiad, and one 10-inch mortar.

  4. Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip - Wikipedia

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    Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip were a pair of closely associated forts on the Mississippi River. They were sited some 40 kilometers (25 mi) above Head of Passes, where the river divides before it finally enters the Gulf of Mexico, or about 120 kilometers (75 mi) downstream from New Orleans.

  5. 1st Louisiana Native Guard (Union) - Wikipedia

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    By this time, the Guard's numbers had diminished to 500. Troops of the Native Guards were assigned guard duty at Fort Macomb, Fort Pike, Fort Massachusetts (Mississippi), Fort St. Philip, and Fort Jackson. [2] In mid-1863, the 1st Louisiana Native Guard, along with the 3rd Louisiana Native Guard, had its first chance at combat.

  6. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Fort Jackson, and; Fort St. Philip. The parish has five other sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including Woodland Plantation, which has been depicted on the label of Southern Comfort liqueur since the 1930s. Woodland Plantation is an antebellum mansion located in West Pointe à la Hache, on the west bank

  7. Buras-Triumph, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    The town of Buras was established, informally, in the 1840s. Several small settlements on the West Bank of the Mississippi River north of Fort Jackson became known collectively as the Quartiers des Burats, the Burat Settlement, anchored on the property of Sebastian Burat, near where Cazezu Boulevard meets Parish Highway 11 today.

  8. 18-year-old solider reported dead at Fort Jackson

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    The death was “unrelated to COVID-19 or an active field training exercise,” said LA Sully, a media relations officer at Fort Jackson. “An investigation into the cause of the death is ...

  9. Fort St. Philip - Wikipedia

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    Fort St. Philip along the Mississippi River Fort St. Philip in 1862 Fort St. Philip 1898 Fort St. Philip from the air in 1935.. Fort St. Philip is a historic masonry fort located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, about 40 miles (64 km) upriver from its mouth in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, just opposite Fort Jackson on the other side of the river.