Crossword-Solution: SHREVEPORT 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

The arms and munitions stored in the arsenal were scattered--some to Mississippi, some to New Orleans, some to Shreveport; and to me, at the Central Arsenal, were consigned two thousand muskets, three hundred Jager rifles, and a large amount of cartridges and ammunition.

Smith's division, to the southwest, to break up the railroad leading from Vicksburg toward Shreveport, Louisiana.

This was the real object and purpose of the Meridian campaign, and of Banks's expedition up Red River to Shreveport during that winter.

The moment I learned that you were preparing for it, I sent a communication to Admiral Porter, and dispatched to General Grant at Chattanooga, asking if he wanted me and Steele to cooperate with you against Shreveport; and I will have his answer in time, for you cannot do any thing till Red River has twelve feet of water on the rapids at Alexandria.

The expedition on Shreveport should be made rapidly, with simultaneous movements from Little Rock on Shreveport, from Opelousas on Alexandria, and a combined force of gunboats and transports directly up Red River.