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W. H. Payne (search for this): chapter 22
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for the first two hours; at the end of that time the enemy had been signally repulsed at every point, and he had withdrawn a short distance and concealed his men under cover of the trees, logs, ravines, &c., and from this hour, about 11 o'clock, until five o'clock, the firing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 called sharpshooti
James A. Fisher (search for this): chapter 22
e morning her magazine exploded, and she sunk to the bottom (some miles below). A few minutes past two (A. M.) the engagement ended. I cannot close this already long report without expressing my high appreciation of the promptness, coolness, and gallantry of Colonel J. G. W. Steedman and Lieutenant-Colonel P. F. de Gournay, commanding the right and left wings of the heavy artillery, and also to their officers and men. I beg leave also to recommend to your favorable consideration Captain James A. Fisher, First Tennessee battalion art'f.; Lieutenant-Colonel E. S. M. Lebuton, volunteer aid, and Captain Ls. Girard, of the Ordance Department, who acted aids and assistants to me during the engagement. Their services were invaluable to me, and they conducted themselves in a manner worthy of the cause for which they fought. Mr. H. B. McGruder, of the Signal Corps, lit the only fire on the opposite side, which he must have done under a heavy fire, and for which he deserves your notice.
F. Watkins (search for this): chapter 22
oint and assumed command in person. Immediately after reaching there, I discovered the artillery of the enemy crossing the bridge. I ordered Lieutenant Sorrel, commanding the gun at the sally-port, to load with solid shot and open at once upon the enemy's artillery. He opened upon them just as they were unlimbering, and so rapid and effective was his fire that the enemy's artillery, after firing one gun, limbered up and retreated across the creek. I immediately sent my Sergeant-Major, F. Watkins, to the batteries of Captains Whitfield and Seawell, commanding 30-pound Parrott and 8 and 10-inch Columbiad, with request to open on the enemy, which was promptly done. The infantry, after crossing the bridge, filed to the right, and, under cover of the willows, formed in line of battle and commenced advancing. Lieutenant Rhodes, commanding on the ridge already spoken of, having deployed his men at intervals, so as to occupy the whole ridge, commenced firing on the enemy, both front and
Coffin (search for this): chapter 22
arney's Parrott gun. The longest range mortars threw some shells up to Lieutenant Rodriguez's battery (9) of one 8-inch howitzer, and a few fell as high up as Captain Coffin's battery (8) of two rifled 24-pounders. During the two hours practice of the mortar boats no damage was done to us. At eleven o'clock that night the moeft Wing—Lieutenant-Colonel de Gournay commanding. Viii—Two rifled 24-pound siege, Twelfth Louisiana battalion—one moved to land lines at Slaughter's field—Captain Coffin. Ix—One 8-inch howitzer (Paixon), Lieutenant Rodriguez. X—One 32 pound smooth, Lieutenant McDowell. Xi—One 20-pound Parrott, Lieutenant Watts Kearneyy, First Mississippi regiment, light artillery; two sections of Watson's battery; two 24-pounders, Captains Waller and Lahey, at Clinton road; one 24-pounder, Captain Coffin, at Slaughter's field. Left wing, right Resiing on railroad—J. G. W. Steedman, Colonel commanding. Order of June 12th—Fifteenth Arkansas, Ben
J. William Jones (search for this): chapter 22
ain S. A. Whitesides (Fourth and Thirtieth Louisiana, Forty second, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fifty-third and Fifty-fifth Tennessee, and Seventh Texas); detachment of De Gournay's battery, acting as infantry, Anderson Merchant, Major commanding. Artillery—Boone's battery; two sections of Roberts's battery. Centre, right resting on advanced work—W. N. R. Beale, Brigadier—General commanding. Infantry—Twelfth Arkansas regiment, T. J. Reed, Colonel commanding; First Arkansas battalion, Jones, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding; Sixteenth Arkansas regiment, Provence, Colonel commanding; First Mississippi regiment, Hamilton, Lieutenant Colonel commanding—Johnson, Major; Twenty-third Arkansas regiment, O. P. Lyle, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding—Black, Major; one company of Forty-ninth Alabama regiment, Street, Major commanding. Artillery—Abbay's battery, First Mississippi regiment, light artillery; two sections of Watson's battery; two 24-pounders, Captains Waller and Lahey, at
T. Friend Wilson (search for this): chapter 22
e ridges and spurs of high ground, but the valleys and gorges had no such protection. They were principally choked, however, with fallen timber. Official report of Colonel J. G. W. Steedman, First Regi-Ment Alabama Volunteers. Captain T. Friend Wilson, A. A. G.: Sir,—On Friday, the twenty-second of May, I was ordered with my regiment (First regiment Alabama volunteers), to take position a half mile in advance of the main works of Port Hudson, on the road leading by the commissary action, particularly as they had made up their minds already to a term of imprisonment. Roster of Confederate forces engaged in the defence of Port Hudson, May 21st to July 8, 1863. Major-General Frank Gardner commanding. Staff—Major T. Friend Wilson, Adjutant-General; Captains Jackson and Lanier, Assistant Adjutant-Generals; Major Spratley, Chief Quartermaster; Captain Geo. Simpson, Inspector-General; Lieutenant-Colonel Marshall J. Smith, Chief of Heavy Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel
P. F. Gournay (search for this): chapter 22
landing and the opposite bank, and the men and officers went gallantly to their guns. About half-past 11 Lieutenant-Colonel P. F. de Gournay, commanding left wing, opened upon the advancing enemy. The six vessels first named, closing up in singlexpressing my high appreciation of the promptness, coolness, and gallantry of Colonel J. G. W. Steedman and Lieutenant-Colonel P. F. de Gournay, commanding the right and left wings of the heavy artillery, and also to their officers and men. I beg ing shattered to pieces every time, and the bunting torn to shreds. Each time it was raised by Lieutenant Schirmer, of de Gournay's artillery, who was himself killed at the last attempt to replace it. At Battery eleven. The enemy now paid theiennessee battalion, Captain Waller; moved to land lines at Clinton road, Captain Lahey. Left Wing—Lieutenant-Colonel de Gournay commanding. Viii—Two rifled 24-pound siege, Twelfth Louisiana battalion—one moved to land lines at Slaughter's field<
Merchant (search for this): chapter 22
The engineers having decided that the point would undoubtedly be blown up by the enemy, the line of our fortifications was continued across to the river behind Battery 11, so that when that was destroyed the enemy would find as strong a work still confronting them. The exterior lunette, commanding a projecting ridge to the left of Battery 11, was also made the object of a concentrated fire, which razed to the ground a rifle-pit in front of it. This position was held at the time by Major Merchant, with a section of Boone's battery, and a detachment from Colonel de Gournay's command acting as infantry, the latter being afterwards relieved by Miles's Legion. All this while the enemy were making slow but steady approach toward Colonel Johnson's position and that of the First Mississippi; at the latter place, expecting the point of the salient angle to be undermined and blown up, Lieutenant Dabney built a rifle-pit across the base of the angle, so as to present a new line of defen
James Francis Fitts (search for this): chapter 22
, thirty-three miles northeast. The following account is compiled from— 1st. Official report of Colonel Steedman, First Alabama regiment, commanding left wing of defences. 2d. Official report of General Miles, Miles's Legion, commanding right wing. 3d. Two official reports of Colonel Marshall J. Smith, commanding heavy artillery. 4th. Narration of the Siege, published by Lieutenant Wright in the New Orleans Weekly True Delta, September 5, 1863. 5th. Narration of James Francis Fitts in The Galaxy for September, 1866—A June Day at Port Hudson. (Federal.) 6th. Orville J. Victor's History of the War. (Federal.) 7th. Report (official) of Fred. Y. Dabney, First LieutenantEngi-neer Confederate States Navy, Chief Engineer at Port Hudson. The position and occupation. The occupation of Port Hudson had been determined on in July, 1862, and the attack by General Breckenridge on Baton Rouge, early in the succeeding month, was a preliminary step. Brigadier-Gene
J. L. Logan (search for this): chapter 22
us, three hundred head of beef, four hundred head of sheep, and four hundred bushels of corn crossed the river to Port Hudson up to the night of the 21st May, when the place was finally closed on all sides. The Eleventh Arkansas regiment, Colonel J. L. Logan, were mounted to act as cavalry, and serve outside in harassing the rear of an investing force. The mortar boats open fire. On the morning of the 8th May their mortar boats were brought up to a position on the left bank, about four a Abbay's Mississippi battery of light artillery, were skirmishing pretty heavily all the morning near Plains's store with Augur's advance—General Dudley's brigade. To relieve Colonel Powers's cavalry, and enable them to get safely away and join Logan, General Gardner sent an order at noon to Colonel W. R. Miles to take four hundred men with a light battery and reconnoitre the enemy. The infantry marched out, supported by Boone's Louisiana battery. Colonel Miles threw out two companies on the
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