Civil War Service
During most of her service Black Hawk served as flagship for Rear Admirals David Dixon Porter and Samuel Phillips Lee, successive commanders of the Mississippi Squadron.
She participated in the following operations:
- Vicksburg, Mississippi (December 1862)
- capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas (11 January 1863)
- attack on Haines Bluff, Mississippi (29 April-2 May)
- siege of Vicksburg (19 May-4 July)
- Red river Expedition (12 March-29 May 1864)
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“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it—to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“At Hayes’ General Store, west of the cemetery, hangs an old army rifle, used by a discouraged Civil War veteran to end his earthly troubles. The grocer took the rifle as payment ‘on account.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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