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On April 12, 1864, C.S.A. Brig. Gen. Tom Green was killed near here while leading his Texas cavalry in a duel against the Union monitor Osage, gunboat Lexington, and the transport Black Hawk at the Battle of Blair's Landing. Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor said Green was "upright, modest, and with the simplicity of a child, danger seemed to be his element, and he rejoiced in combat... His death was a public calamity and mourned as such by the people of Texas and Louisiana."
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