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Fort Desperate was not a fort but a defensive earthwork called a lunette, named by its defenders in the 15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment and Battery B, 1st Mississippi Artillery Regiment. Surrounded by deep ravines choked with felled trees, it guarded a road leading to an important Confederate commissary complex and armory. Its 318 officers and enlisted men fought off two major Union assaults during the forty-eight day siege.
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