help with research on shrevsport louisiana area

[baldy804]

hello all i need help getting away from the inlaws on our vacation anyway were headed to Louisiana for vacation the first week in June through june 10th i think to see the wife's father who is a different cat but anyway i was wanting some help locating a place to use my quantum while I'm down there looks like theres a few cw battle sites in the area i would love to find relics from cw being from Wyoming that would be a nice change or even some coins that are older than 1940s but I'm not big on research i also dont mind just hunting parks for clad but cant even find local regulations on that in shrevsport bossier area help me find atleast a couple places to look while I'm there please i am also willing to travel up to maybe 50 miles from there while I'm there if anyone has some leads for me i might even have a detector if someone wanted to go with but needed a detector to use looking at buying a xlt thanks in advance

 

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[Shortstack]

Shreveport / Bossier is a very old settlement area, but there were no CW battles in the immediate area. When Porters' Fleet came up the Red River, his scouts reported back to him that there was a Confederate fort on the river just out of Shreveport that has a serious number of cannon and troops. Porter and his Union Infantry commander decided that a huge battle there was not necessary at that time and turned back south on the river. Those "cannon" were actually logs painted black and mounted on the fort walls. That's how the fort came to be called Fort Humbug.

Since you don't have much time left before visiting the area, your best bet will have to be the older schools in the city or contact someone in the area, through a club or the Louisiana section on this forum. If you are an active duty military member, you could go onto Barksdale AFB and detect the Personnel / Finance building (which was the original barracks building) and the Civil Engineering Building across the street that was the original base hospital. I found 2 standing liberty quarters about 2 feet apart, in the grass roots, in the front yard area of the Personnel Building. Of course that was in about 1975.