[3] In a dispatch published by The New York Times in March 1862, Fort Randolph is described as a "rough and incomplete earthwork (...) built upon the Second Chickasaw Bluffs [sic], more than 100 feet above the river".

160 miles (260 km) north of Randolph on the Mississippi River, was reported robbed and burnt down by Confederate forces in March 1862.

The rebels fled downstream to hide out at Fort Randolph in order to evade capture by Union troops.

[4] Confederate units that had suffered considerable loss or which had been fragmented in the course of the Civil War were aggregated and re-organized in the 16th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment.

On October 27, Forrest's men attack the Steamboat Belle of St. Louis, Missouri from Fort Randolph.