Block, Siteadmin, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, delete, edit, Moderators, move, protect, rollback, Administrators
27,336
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Siege of Port Hudson (view source)
Revision as of 23:45, December 15, 2010
, 23:45, December 15, 2010Created page with "{{ACWbattle |name=Siege of Port Hudson |image= |begin=May 21, 1863 |end=July 9, 1863 |place=East Baton Rouge and East Feliciana Parishes, Louisiana |theater=Lower Seaboard Theate..."
{{ACWbattle
|name=Siege of Port Hudson
|image=
|begin=May 21, 1863
|end=July 9, 1863
|place=East Baton Rouge and East Feliciana Parishes, Louisiana
|theater=Lower Seaboard Theater
|campaign=Siege of Port Hudson
|result=Union victory
|combatants1=XIX Army Corps, Army of the Gulf
|combatants2=3rd District,<br/>Dept. of Mississippi and<br/>East Louisiana, Port Hudson
|commanders1=[[Nathaniel P. Banks]]<br/>Major General, USA
|commanders2=[[Franklin Gardner]]<br/>Major General, CSA
|strength1=
|strength2=
|casualties1='''5,000'''
|casualties2='''7,208'''
}}
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'')
{{Template:Campaignbox Port Hudson}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1863}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]
|name=Siege of Port Hudson
|image=
|begin=May 21, 1863
|end=July 9, 1863
|place=East Baton Rouge and East Feliciana Parishes, Louisiana
|theater=Lower Seaboard Theater
|campaign=Siege of Port Hudson
|result=Union victory
|combatants1=XIX Army Corps, Army of the Gulf
|combatants2=3rd District,<br/>Dept. of Mississippi and<br/>East Louisiana, Port Hudson
|commanders1=[[Nathaniel P. Banks]]<br/>Major General, USA
|commanders2=[[Franklin Gardner]]<br/>Major General, CSA
|strength1=
|strength2=
|casualties1='''5,000'''
|casualties2='''7,208'''
}}
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'')
{{Template:Campaignbox Port Hudson}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1863}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]