Siege of Port Hudson |
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East Baton Rouge and East Feliciana Parishes, Louisiana
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Lower Seaboard Theater
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Siege of Port Hudson
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XIX Army Corps, Army of the Gulf
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3rd District, Dept. of Mississippi and East Louisiana, Port Hudson
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In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s offensive against Vicksburg, Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s army moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. On May 27, after their frontal assaults were repulsed, the Federals settled into a siege which lasted for 48 days. Banks renewed his assaults on June 14 but the defenders successfully repelled them. On July 9, 1863, after hearing of the fall of Vicksburg, the Confederate garrison of Port Hudson surrendered, opening the Mississippi River to Union navigation from its source to New Orleans. (NPS summary)
Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, May-July 1863 |
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Battles of the American Civil War: 1863 |
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| Eastern Theater | | | Western Theater | | | Trans-Mississippi Theater | | | Lower Seaboard Theater | | | Naval | |
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