Fort Defiance, Cairo, Illinois, located on
Fort Defiance, Cairo, Illinois, located on a point of land at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. The Union supply depot was renamed Fort Defiance, when it became headquarters of the Military District of Southeast Missouri, commanded by Union General Ulysses Grant in 1861, during the US Civil War
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