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The Battle of Port Hudson

Location: East Baton Rouge Parish and East Feliciana Parish

Campaign: Siege of Port Hudson (1863)

Date(s): May 21-July 9, 1863

Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks [US]; Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner [CS]

Forces Engaged: XIX Army Corps, Army of the Gulf [US]; Confederate forces, 3rd District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, Port Hudson [CS]

Estimated Casualties: 12,208 total (US 5,000; CS 7,208)

Description: In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s offensive against Vicksburg, Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s army moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. On May 27, after their frontal assaults were repulsed, the Federals settled into a siege which 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 New Orleans.

Result(s): Union victory

Partial List of Units Engaged:

CSA
3rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment (Clack's)
9th Louisiana Calvary Battalion
9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
10th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Johnson's)
16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
35th Alabama Infantry Regiment
42nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment