Bailey’s Dam was a timber dam on the Red River in Alexandria Louisiana. The dam was built in 1864 at Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey’s request to afford passage over the Alexandria rapids for part of Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter’s Mississippi River Squadron during the Red River Campaign in the Civil War. The dam successfully raised the level of the river and was then breached in order to allow the boats in its reservoir to pass downstream.
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