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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
ight, had already fallen at Antietam. In the siege of Port Hudson, Colonel Chickering (41st Mass. Infantry) marched, May 2 was not, however, large. In both the two assaults on Port Hudson (May 27 and June 14, 1863) the regiment suffering most s and the 52d (Colonel Greenleaf). When the assault on Port Hudson was ordered for the 27th, a storming party of two hundree fight eleven were wounded. In the second assault on Port Hudson (June 14), the chief loss fell on the 38th and 53d Mass. The surrender of Vicksburg, followed closely by that of Port Hudson, rendered unnecessary the sacrifice demanded of the storBiographies, I, 107. The engineering operations, both at Port Hudson and Vicksburg, were largely under the direction of Massa Irwin, p. 253. After General Sherman was wounded at Port Hudson, Gen. Wm. Dwight, Jr., showed great energy in pushing fong to chivalry on both sides, as when, in the assault on Port Hudson, orders were given by Confederate officers to spare Gen.