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22-768: The bayou area saw action during the American Civil War including from the 1st Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry in May 1863 in the areas then known as Caledonia and Pin Hook. The Bayou Macon Wildlife Management Area comprises 6,919 acres in East Carroll Parish and was acquired by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in 1991. This article related to a river in Arkansas

44-636: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Louisiana is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1st Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry The 1st Kansas Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . On August 10, 1861, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek , Missouri,

66-498: Is a town in, and the parish seat of, East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana . The population was 5,104 at the 2000 census and declined by 21.8 percent to 3,991 in 2010 . The town's poverty rate is approximately 55 percent; the average median household income is $ 16,500, and the average age is 31. The town shares its name with the oxbow lake of the Mississippi River , also called Lake Providence. This area

88-549: Is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km ) (0.55%) is water. The existing boundaries of the town constitute the third location of the community. Lake Providence is located adjacent to the Mississippi River. Prior to the building of the current levee system by the United States Army Corps of Engineers , the meandering river would overflow its bank and take valuable lands. It was such flooding that

110-492: The 2020 United States census , there were 3,587 people, 1,221 households, and 695 families residing in the town. Public schools operated by the East Carroll Parish School Board include Southside Elementary School (PK-5), Lake Providence Junior High School (grades 6–8), and Lake Providence Senior High School (9-12). The private school Briarfield Academy is grades PK to 12. Several episodes of

132-592: The Atchafalaya River October 4, 1864. Atchafalaya October 5. Ordered to White River, Arkansas , October 7, then to Little Rock, Arkansas , December 7. Duty there as Headquarters Guard and escort, Department of Arkansas, until August 1865. Veteran volunteers mustered out August 30, 1865. The regiment lost a total of 252 men during service; 7 officers and 120 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 122 enlisted men died of disease. Lake Providence, Louisiana Lake Providence

154-1041: The Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad until October. Duty at Tipton, Missouri , guarding the Missouri Pacific Railroad , October 1861 to January 1862. Expedition to Milford, Missouri , December 15–19, 1861. Shawnee Mound, Milford, December 18. At Lexington, Missouri , until February 1862. Moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas , in anticipation of General Curtis' New Mexico Expedition April and May. Service with McPherson's Brigade. Ordered to Columbus, Kentucky , and duty guarding Mobile and Ohio Railroad . Headquarters at Trenton, Tennessee , until September. Brownsburg September 4. Trenton, September 17. Moved to Jackson, Tennessee , and duty there until November. March to relief of Corinth, Mississippi , October 3–5. Pursuit to Ripley, Mississippi , October 5–12. Actions at Chewalla, Tennessee , and Big Hill October 5. Moved to Grand Junction, Tennessee , November 2. Operations on

176-2173: The Mississippi Central Railroad to the Yocknapatalfa River November 1862 to January 1863. Service in Vicksburg Campaign and Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign . Moved to Moscow, Tennessee , then to Memphis, Tennessee, and to Young's Point, Louisiana, January 17, 1863. Regiment mounted February 1, 1863. Moved to Lake Providence, Louisiana , February 8, and provost duty there until July. Actions at Old River, Hood's Lane, Black Bayou, Mississippi, and near Lake Providence February 10. Pin Hook and Caledonia, Bayou Macon , May 10. Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4. Repulse of attack on Providence in Battle of Lake Providence June 9. Baxter's Bayou and Lake Providence June 10. Bayou Macon June 10. Battle of Richmond, Louisiana , June 15, 1863. Richmond, Louisiana , June 16. Battle of Goodrich's Landing near Lake Providence June 29. Moved to Natchez, Mississippi , July 12–13, and duty there until October. Expedition to Harrisonburg, Louisiana , September 1–8. Cross Bayou September 14. Moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi , October, and duty at Big Black River and near Haynes' Bluff until June, 1864. Skirmish at Big Black River, October 8, 1863. Scout from Bovina Station to Baldwyn's Ferry November 1. Scout to Baldwyn's Ferry January 14, 1864. Expedition up Yazoo River April 19–23. McArthur's Yazoo City Expedition to Yazoo City, Mississippi , May 4–21. Benton, Mississippi , May 7–9. Luce's Plantation May 13. Ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, June 1, 1864. Attacked on riverboat W. R. Arthur near Columbia, Arkansas, June 2. Mustered out June 19, 1864. Additional Service by veteran volunteer companies. Veterans on duty in District of Vicksburg, Mississippi, until August 1864. Ordered to Morganza, Louisiana , July 29. Operations in vicinity of Morganza September 16–25. Near Alexandria, Louisiana , September 20. Skirmish near

198-691: The Democratic Party after the 1960s, and have overwhelmingly joined the Republican Party. In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, East Carroll Parish voted handily for Democrat Barack H. Obama of Illinois , rather than his Republican opponents, John McCain of Arizona and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts . According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km ), of which 3.6 square miles (9.3 km )

220-425: The Mississippi River and used enslaved African Americans to clear the land for cultivation. By the start of the American Civil War in 1861, the region consisted mostly of large cotton plantations along the river, which were worked by thousands of slave laborers. The town of Lake Providence developed after the arrival of the Union Army in the spring of 1862. Under the direction of General Ulysses S. Grant ,

242-516: The area by Lake Providence was established as a supply depot and base of operations for the Vicksburg Campaign . The soldiers dug a canal between the Mississippi River and Lake Providence. The area was called "Soldiers' Rest". Grant subsequently moved his troops south for temporary residence at Winter Quarters south of Newellton in Tensas Parish . As slaves crowded into the camp at Lake Providence to gain freedom from surrounding plantations,

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264-417: The bend. It later was renamed as Lake Providence when the town was moved to its current location surrounding a natural oxbow lake . The Lake Providence area first opened for European-American settlement in the late 1830s, after the federal government enforced Indian Removal to Indian Territory further west of the Mississippi River, and extinguished their land titles. Settlers drained the cypress swamps along

286-495: The civil rights movement highlighted the constitutional infringement of the rights of African Americans in the South. Following national Democratic support for the passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, most African Americans allied with that party. With a majority African-American electorate, Lake Providence voters in the 21st century continue to support Democratic Party candidates. Conservative whites tended to leave

308-587: The far southwestern corner of the state, personally registered twenty-eight African Americans in Lake Providence under a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 , which had been signed into law by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower . Hunter was challenged by Louisiana 6th Judicial District Judge Frank Voelker Sr., who was based in Lake Providence, in a dispute over the powers of the national government. The case attracted national attention, as

330-600: The greatest number of men being recruited between May 20 and June 3. It then mustered in for three years' service under the command of Colonel George Washington Deitzler . The regiment moved to Wyandotte County, Kansas , then to Kansas City, Missouri and Clinton, Missouri , to join General Lyon, June 7-July 13, 1861. Action at Dug Springs , Missouri, August 2. At Springfield, Missouri , until August 7. Battle of Wilson's Creek August 10. March to Rolla, Missouri , August 11–22, then to St. Louis, Missouri, and duty on

352-470: The lake of Lake Providence was created and the town was washed away by the river. Each time the town was taken by the river, the citizens moved. Historian John D. Winters describes Lake Providence as "a beautiful oxbow lake some six miles (10 km) long, an old Mississippi river bed with an outlet through Baxter Bayou into Bayou Macon and thus into the Tensas , Ouachita , Black , and Red rivers. As of

374-557: The political system made them second-class citizens. The civil rights movement of the post-World War II period from the 1940s through the 1960s brought efforts of a new generation to make constitutional rights more equitable. Until 1962, no African Americans had been allowed to register to vote in Lake Providence or East Carroll Parish in forty years when U.S. District Judge Edwin Ford Hunter, Jr. , based in Lake Charles in

396-512: The population quickly soared from a few hundred to several thousand. What began as a simple military supply camp quickly transformed into a city with a large population of African-American refugees. By the time Vicksburg, Mississippi fell to the Union in 1863, most planters in the Lake Providence area had fled, and their plantations lay empty. The Union Army determined that they should be productive again. After white Democrats regained power in

418-408: The regiment suffered 106 soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded, one of the highest numbers of fatalities suffered by any Union infantry regiment in a single engagement during the American Civil War. Part of the regiment was formed by soldiers from The Stubbs . The 1st Kansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Lincoln near Leavenworth , Kansas from May 20 to June 30, 1861,

440-740: The state legislature after the Reconstruction Era , they worked to reimpose white supremacy . Many blacks worked as sharecroppers or tenant farmers in the region. In 1898, Louisiana, like other southern states, enacted a new constitution, designed to maintain Democratic Party dominance and forestall any alliances such as the Populist-Republican alliance that had won seats in the 1890s. They included provisions that raised barriers to voter registration and elections, effectively disfranchising most blacks despite their constitutional 15th Amendment right to vote. Their exclusion from

462-454: The type of craft that carried the goods. These were eventually replaced by steamboats. Thieves and pirates raided the longboats, killing the crew and selling the goods. Bunch's Bend is named for a pirate who would raid the boats at this place, where they had to maneuver the bend in the river. If the longboat men made it past Bunch's Bend without being robbed, they would say they, "made it to Providence." The trading town of Providence developed at

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484-513: Was historically developed as cotton plantations before and after the Civil War, and remains largely rural. The Union Army developed a supply depot near the lake during the Civil War, and its camp was crowded with refugee slaves seeking their freedom. The town grew larger at this site. In the late 18th century goods such as animal pelts, indigo , and cotton were transported on the Mississippi River by people commonly known as longboat men, named for

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