Shreveport

Shreveport, a city of Louisiana, on the west bank of Red River (here spanned by an iron bridge of 1200 feet), and 328 miles by rail NW. of New Orleans, with which it has also regular steamboat connection. It ships cotton, hides, wool, and tallow, contains planing and saw mills, foundries, machine-shops, breweries, and manufactories of cotton-gins, cotton-seed oil, soap, ice, carriages, &c. Pop. (1880) 8009; (1890) 11,979.