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Port Hudson, seven miles west, was the site of an anchor fort controlling the Mississippi. Here 6500 Confederates held 30,000 Union troops from May 21 until July 8, 1863. The fall of Port Hudson opened the river and hastened the fall of the Confederacy.
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