A view behind the lines of the 18th New York Artillery Independent Battery in Fort Hudson, Louisiana. An area has been cleared out of the forest, leaving an open space which has guns lined across the width of the image, behind sandbags and round bales of cotton. There are Union soldiers, under the command of Captain Albert G. Mack, standing behind the line of artillery. Title handwritten on verso. Port Hudson fell after Vicksburg; Confederates held on tight to this port town 25 mi. north of Baton Rouge. Fell on July 8, 1863. Cost the Union nearly 10,000 men -- dead, wounded or physically impaired from disease or exposure -- compared with Southern losses of 871.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union Artillery Port Hudson (La.)--History--Siege, 1863 United States. Army. New York Artillery. Independent Battery, 18th (1862-1865) Albumen prints. (aat)
Place
Port Hudson (La.)
Source
Oversized Items United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
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