hide Matching Documents

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) or search for Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
out check, defeating double his numbers, as was shown by captured papers, and stopped only when the men were exhausted and no reinforcements could be had to meet the fresh lines of the enemy. The attack and success of the left wing at Murfreesboro', under Gen. Hardee, was one of the most signal achievements of the war. In July, 1863, after the army had fallen back from Tullahoma to Chattanooga, Gen. Hardee was ordered to Mississippi, and was engaged in reassembling the Vicksburg and Port Hudson prisoners until about the first of November, when he was ordered back to the Army of Tennessee. General Longstreet having been sent to Knoxville, Hardee was placed in command of the left wing, resting upon Lookout Mountain, and held this position until the evening of the 23d November, when, the right wing being threatened, he was transferred to that part of the line. The battle of Lookout was fought the next day, the 24th, and lost, and was followed on the 25th by the battle of Missionar