Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort Derussy, Louisiana, and the Defense of Red River

by Steven M. Mayeux

Book Overview

"This book will be of great use to historians of the western theatre of the Civil War, to the reader of nineteenth-century history, and to students of the undergraduate and graduate levels. -Gary D. Joiner, author of Through the Howling Wilderness: The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West

Earthen Walls, Iron Men tells the story of Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, a major Confederate fortification that defended the lower Red River...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572335769
• ISBN13: 9781572335769
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"