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(March 2009) Enlarge Joan Plantation site, home of Josiah Stransbrough. Federals bivouacked here the night of April 2. SH-603, 2 1/2 mi. south of Richmond markers

(March 2009) Enlarge Site of T. C. Holmes' Trinidad Plantation. SH-603, 5 1/2 mi. south of Joan Plantation site

(March 2009) Enlarge Sturget Plantation site. Following McClernand's advance, McPherson's XVII Corps bivouacked here the evening of April 26. SH-603, 5.3 mi. south of Holmes Plantation site

(March 2009) Enlarge Confluence of Roundaway Bayou and Bayou Vidal. View from the levee just south of Rt. 603. Roundaway Bayou flows from the left and continues in the distance approximately 2 mi. to wartime Palmyra Bend of the Mississippi River at the site of New Carthage. Bayou Vidal is to the right. SH-603 2 mi. south of Sturget Plantation site or 6 mi. east of US-65. This area was heavily flooded during Grant's March

(March 2009) Enlarge Pointe Clear site (Smith's Plantation) is in the distance across Rt. 603. The view is looking north from the levee. SH-603 2 mi. south of Sturget Plantation site or 6 mi. east of US-65

(March 2009) Enlarge Dunbar's Plantation site on Mill Bayou. A Federal outpost was located here. Private Property near the confluence of Mill Bayou and Bayou Vidal
 
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