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Louisiana in the American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson, Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Red River Campaign, Capture of New Orleans, Benjami
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| Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Chapters: Siege of Port Hudson, Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Red River Campaign, Capture of New Orleans, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Battle of Pleasant Hill, Battle of the Head of Passes, New Orleans in the American Civil War, CSS Louisiana, Battle of Baton Rouge, CSS Ivy, Bailey's Dam, CSS Manassas, Louisiana Tigers, Battle of Milliken's Bend, List of Louisiana Union Civil War units, Battle of Fort Bisland, USS Varuna, Battle of Mansfield, Fort St. Philip, CSS Governor Moore, Battle of Irish Bend, Camp Moore, Port Hudson State Historic Site, Fort Pike, Battle of Fort De Russy, Army of the Gulf, Yankee Autumn In Acadiana, Battle of Georgia Landing, Fort Beauregard, Battle of Goodrich's Landing, Battle of Young's Point, Battle of LaFourche Crossing, Battle of Yellow Bayou, Battle of Stirling's Plantation, Battle of Vermillion Bayou, Battle of Plains Store, Magnolia Cemetery (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Baton Rouge National Cemetery, Bayou St. John Confederate Submarine, Fort DeRussy, Battle of Bayou Bourbeux, Second Battle of Donaldsonville, Battle of Monett's Ferry, Battle of Lake Providence, Army of Western Louisiana, Pioneer, Battle of Mansura, Battle of Blair's Landing, Battle of Kock's Plantation, Walker's Greyhounds, Bayou Teche Campaign, First Battle of Donaldsonville, Fort Macomb, Butler's General Order No. 28, Shrewsbury Cemetery, Camp Parapet, Trans-Mississippi, Marshall Conferences, Battle of Calcasieu Pass, Hard Times Plantation. Excerpt: The Siege of Port Hudson occurred from May 22 to July 9, 1863, when Union Army troops assaulted and then surrounded the Mississippi River town of Port Hudson, Louisiana, during the American Civil War. In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's offensive against Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's army moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. On May 27, 1863, after their frontal assaults were repulsed, the Federals settled into a siege that lasted for 48 days. Banks renewed his assaults on June 14 but the defenders successfully repelled them. On July 9, 1863, after hearing of the fall of Vicksburg, the Confederate garrison of Port Hudson surrendered, opening the Mississippi River to Union navigation from its source to the Gulf of Mexico. From the time the American Civil War started in April 1861, both the North and South made controlling the Mississippi River a major part of their strategy. The Confederacy wanted to keep using the river to transport needed supplies; the Union wanted to stop this supply route and drive a wedge that would divide Confederate states and territories. Particularly important to the South was the stretch of the Mississippi that included the mouth of the Red River. The Red was the Confederacy's primary route for moving vital supplies between east and west: salt, cattle, and horses traveled downstream from the Trans-Mississippi West; in the opposite direction flowed men and munitions from the east. In the spring and early summer of 1862, the Union advanced their control of the Mississippi from both the north and the south. From the mouth of the river, a fleet commanded by Flag Officer David G. Farragut fought its way through Confederate fortifications in the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, resulting in the Capture of New Orleans. A second Union fleet commanded by Charles H. Davis occupied Memphis, Tennessee after defeating Confederate riv... |
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