Mrs. Alexander's Cotton
Supreme Court of the United States
In the spring of 1864, a conjoint expedition of forces of tbc United States, consisting of the Ouachita and other gunboats, with their officers and crews, under Near Admiral Porter, and a body of troops under .Major-General Banks, proceeded up the Red River, a tributary of the Mississippi, and which empties into that river three hundred and thirty-four miles above its mouth, as far as Shreveport, in the northwestern corner of Louisiana.
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In the spring of 1864, a conjoint expedition of forces of tbc United States, consisting of the Ouachita and other gunboats, with their officers and crews, under Near Admiral Porter, and a body of troops under .Major-General Banks, proceeded up the Red River, a tributary of the Mississippi, and which empties into that river three hundred and thirty-four miles above its mouth, as far as Shreveport, in the northwestern corner of Louisiana. The Southern insurgents were, at this time, in complete occupation of the district. About the 15th of March these' Government forces captured-Fort De -Russy,…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court.
This controversy concerns seventy-two bales of cotton captured in May, 1864, on the plantation of Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander, on the Red River, by a party sent from the Ouachita, a gunboat belonging to Admiral Porter’s expedition. The United States insist on the condemnation of the cotton as lawful maritime prize. Mrs. Alexander claims it as her private property. The facts may be briefly stated.
In the spring of 1864, a naval force, of the United States, under Rear Admiral Porter, co-operating with a military force on land, under Major-General…
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