Morganza, Louisiana 1864 of Federal troops in Morganza under General Nathaniel P. Banks, recently defeated in the Battle of Mansfield in DeSoto Parish and abandoning the Red River Campaign. According to Winters, Located at the lower end of a sharp bend of the Mississippi River, Morganza has been subjected to flooding by the great river a number of times. Levee breaches or "crevasses" occurred at Morganza and Grand Levee just downriver in 1850, 1865, 1867, and 1890. The Morganza Spillway, a major flood diversion project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is located immediately north of the town. Construction on this
Morganza, Maryland black children in 1927. These schools were begun by John LaFarge, S.J. He is noted for his many interracial writings and activities. He is quoted as having said that his ministry among both the white and Afro-American parishioners taught him about racial injust. St. Joseph's original cemetery is located at the bottom of the hill along Route 5 and for many years was forgotten under dense underbrush, but has since been cleared. The current cemetery across from St. Joseph's was purchased in 1904. Morganza, Maryland Morganza is an unincorporated community in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. Today, it is