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References

Fort Humbug

1  Letter from Helen Kelly Fitzgerald to Mrs. K. K. Kennedy and the Louisiana Division of the United Daughters of  
   the Confederacy, 1946. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special
   Collections. VF: Fort Humbug.

2 Tolbert, Frank X. “Fort Humbug never fired an angry shot.” Dallas Morning News. March 1968. Louisiana State
   University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Fort Humbug.

3  Letter.

4  “City should preserve site of historic Fort Humbug, is plea of Reuben M’Kellar.” 6 Feb. 1927. Louisiana State
   University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Fort Humbug.

5  Letter.

6  Ibid.

7  Ibid.

8  Espenan, Gertie. “Your fort just humbug.” Sunday Advocate. 26 July 1970. 1-E. Louisiana State University in
   Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Fort Humbug.iikki


 

 


                                                                                                                                        

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