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Date 1864
Location Louisiana • United States
Participants Confederate States of America • United States
Context American Civil War

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Nathaniel P. Banks
Nathaniel P. Banks
United States politician and general
Kirby-Smith
E. Kirby-Smith
United States military officer
David Dixon Porter, photograph; in the Mathew Brady collection
David Dixon Porter
United States naval officer

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