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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
el Sterling and Captains Lynch and Johnston of the same regiment. On the 25th of May, Maj.-Gen. N. P. Banks, with an army of 20,000 men, invested Port Hudson, La., where Maj.-Gen. Franklin Gardnernd of the Confederate forces, and after thorough preparation this fortified post was assailed by Banks' army and the fleet commanded by Admiral Farragut. General Banks anticipated the easy capture ofGeneral Banks anticipated the easy capture of the garrison, but he met a determined resistance and was signally defeated, with a loss of 293 killed and 1,549 wounded. On the 10th and 14th of June, assaults were again made without success; and after the last attack, becoming convinced that he could not carry the works by assault, Banks set about the slower operations of a siege, making approaches and skirmishing from day to day, aided activ, and between 300 and 400 wounded. At the time of surrender there were only 2,500 men for duty. Banks reported to General Halleck that he had not more than 14,000 effective men. He lost 706 killed,
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
attalion, Wade and Color-bearer Bland, Fifty-first and Fifty-second regiments, and Captain Whaley and Lieutenant Craig, Twenty-eighth. Among the wounded were Cols. John H. Anderson, Eighth; D. M. Donnell, Sixteenth; Maj. Thomas G. Randle, Captains Puryear, Cullum and Pond, and Lieutenants Cunningham, Leonard, Fiynt and Shaw, Eighth; Lieutenants Potter, Owen, Fisher and Worthington, Sixteenth; Captain McDonald and Lieutenants Apple, Danley and Taylor, Twenty-eighth; Adjutant Caruthers, Lieutenants Banks and Ridout, Thirty-eighth; and Captain Burton, Lieutenants Billings, Chester, White, Haynie, Tilman, Fifty-first and Fifty-second. During the battle of the 19th the Twenty-sixth Tennessee wavered for a moment (as reported by General Cheatham), and seemed to be in the act of falling back, when the intrepid Col. S. S. Stanton seized the colors of his regiment and, rushing to the front, called his men to follow him. Inspired by this heroic example, the regiment reformed on the colors a
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter XI (search)
been called here to pursue the same system. Pope had under his command 77,779 men of all arms, soon reinforced by Burnside's command with 12,000, and by Cox from the Kanawha with 6,000. McClellan's army, strong and well appointed, remained inactive for a month. On the 13th of July, General Jackson was ordered to Gordonsville, Pope's advance having reached the Rapidan. A. P. Hill, with his division, was ordered on July 27th to join General Jackson. On the 21st of July, Pope, writing to Banks, one of his corps commanders, said, Let Bayard amuse Ewell with cavalry. He felt himself master of the situation until on the morning of the 9th of August, Jackson (greatly inferior in numbers) burst upon him with great fury, and pushed him from the field in retreat, capturing 400 prisoners, including a brigadier-general, 5,300 stand of small-arms, one piece of artillery, several caissons and three colors. On the 11th he sued for permission to bury his dead. General Jackson remained in po