The Fortress on the Bayou

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The Fortress on the Bayou The island had no name on any map Silas Whitaker could find. It sat in a bend of the Mississippi River, roughly halfway between Baton Rouge and Vicksburg, a strip of land maybe two acres wide, thick with cypress and Spanish moss. At its center stood a fortress—stone walls six feet thick, built in 1861, abandoned for eighty years. The Army Corps of Engineers had sent...

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