Enjoying myself. I had no clue what was going to happen to me just a year from now and how my life would changeâ¦. I wrote a television series and had nearly optioned a screenplay with a production company. I signed an actor to my project who was a very funny comedian that loved my script and joined with my ...
The Union established the Gulf Blockading Squadron on October 29, 1861. Based at Key West, Florida, this fleet was responsible for maintaining the Union blockade from that point to the Texas-Mexico border at the Rio Grande River.
By the middle of 1862, the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi stood as the only remaining Confederate stronghold on the mighty Mississippi River. Union forces had captured Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee, along with New Orleans in April 1862, Baton Rouge in May and Memphis in June. Built high on the bluffs on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, halfway between Memphis to the north and New Orleans to the south, Vicksburg had been an important Union objective since early in the war.