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Oct.-Dec. 1863: Rebs on move; a skirmish at Waterproof
In October 1863, three months after the Union victory at Vicksburg, a small band of paroled Confederate troops — former prisoners of war there — were traveling to Alexandria, La., to meet up with the Third Louisiana Infantry.
The Union war strategy now included sending part of its army and navy west up the Red River to Alexandria, while a larger Union force prepared to move east through Alabama and Georgia to the sea. The Mississippi River was now in Union hands and guerrilla warfare was being waged by Rebels in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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