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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fortification and siege of Port Hudson—Compiled by the Association of defenders of Port Hudson; M. J. Smith, President; James Freret, Secretary. (search)
losses between 23d and 27th May was fully 2,500. Page 84, Vol. IV, says: The investment was not made complete until the 26th of May, when General Weitzel arrived, when the line, as formed, was, first, Weitzel on the north, resting on the river and crossing Sandy creek; then Grover; then Augur; while General Thomas W. Sherman's command constituted the extreme Federal left reaching the river. The troops or commands engaged on May 27 were Weitzel's brigade (division?), Grover's division, Emory's under Colonel Payne, and the divisions under Major-General Augur and BrigadierGen-eral Sherman. The battle on the left wing on the morning of the 27th was an assault or series of assaults for the first two hours; at the end of that time the enemy had been signally repulsed at every point, and he had withdrawn a short distance and concealed his men under cover of the trees, logs, ravines, &c., and from this hour, about 11 o'clock, until five o'clock, the firing relaxed and could only be