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	Port Hudson
		The village of Port Hudson, located on a bend of the Mississippi river, 25 miles above Baton Rouge and about 15O miles from New Orleans, was fortified by the Confederates in the summer and fall of 1862.
		The reduction of Port Hudson was necessary for the opening of the Mississippi river, and when Gen. Grant began the siege of Vicksburg Gen. Banks, commanding the Department of the Gulf, concentrated his army against Port.
		This order did not reach Port Hudson until late on the 24th, and before it could be carried out Banks' army of nearly 40,000 men was in front of the intrenchments.
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	The Battle of Port Hudson
		This detailed Map of the Port Hudson Battlefield shows the disposition of the Confederate and Union forces during the siege, as well as other pertinent features.
		The battle was over and the Mississippi River was in the hands of the Union, and the Confederacy was cut in half.
		There are many stories of bitter fighting and uncommon bravery to come out of the Port Hudson siege, but none overshadow that of Fort Desperate and the men of the Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry Regiment who defended it.
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	Battle of Port Hudson
		Port Hudson was one of the most critical battles of the civil war, and was one of the most devastating losses of the confederacy.
		On May 23, 1863, Port Hudson was attacked by 30,000 Union troops under the command of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks.
		In 1974 the Port Hudson battlefield was designated as a National Historic Landmark.
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	Port McNeill on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
		Port McNeill is an established community partly surrounded by lush temperate rainforest, and the sparkling waters of the Broughton Strait.
		Port McNeill was named after Captain William Henry McNeill of the Hudson Bay Company, who arrived aboard the S/S Beaver, a paddle-wheeler that was the first steamship to operate on the west coast of British Columbia.
		Although Port McNeill history does not go back beyond the 1930’s as far a settlement is concerned, there is still much to learn of the pioneers of these days.
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	The Battle of Port Hudson
		Port Hudson was situated high on the bluffs overlooking a substantial bend in the river which required ships passing downstream to reduce speed.
		It is this environment and setting which led to the siege of Port Hudson.
		Port Hudson was one of the most critical battles of the civil war, and was one of the most devastating losses of the Confederacy.
	www.mycivilwar.com /battles/630521b.htm (1150 words)

	Port Hudson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The reduction of Port Hudson was necessary for the opening of the Mississippi river, and when Gen.Grant began the siege of Vicksburg.
		This order did not reach Port Hudson until late on the 24th and before it could be carried out Banks' army of nearly 40,000 men was in front of the entrenchments.
		Following their defeat at the Battle of Baton Rouge on August 5, 1862, Confederate soldiers marched to Port Hudson and occupied the area on August 15, 1862.
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	Cemeteries - Port Hudson National Cemetery - Burial & Memorials
		Port Hudson National Cemetery is located approximately seven miles west of Zachary, La., and about 20 miles north of the capital Baton Rouge.
		Port Hudson National Cemetery is located on the site where Union and Confederate forces were engaged in the siege of Port Hudson.
		Port Hudson National Cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974 as part of the Port Hudson Historic Site.
	www.cem.va.gov /CEM/cems/nchp/porthudson.asp (950 words)

	Battle Summary: Port Hudson, LA
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		Nathaniel P. Banks’s army moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River.
		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.
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	Battle Summary: Port Hudson, LA
		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.
		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.
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	Port hudson
		The Siege of Port Hudson occurred in the summer of 1863 when 30,000 Union Army troops surrounded the Mississippi River town of Port Hudson, Louisiana.
		The village of Port Hudson, located on a bend of the Mississippi river, 25 miles...
		Port Hudson occupied one of the strongest positions on the river, as...
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	18th History: the Battle Flags
		It was a common practice to save the center section of a captured battle flag as a trophy of war, and then allow the remainder of the flag to be cut up into small sections and given to the men of the capturing unit.
		This battle proved to be costly for the 18th Louisiana...approximately 100 men were killed, wounded, taken prisoner or missing in action.
		Battle of Port Hudson, Louisiana on March 25, 2000.
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	Dixie Outfitters
		Battle of Champion's Hill, Mississippi: The Union army seals the fate of Vicksburg by defeating the Confederates at the Battle of Champion's Hill.
		Battle of Second Winchester: A small Union garrison in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia, is easily defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia on the path of the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania.
		Surrender of Port Hudson, Louisiana, the Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, falls to Nathaniel Banks' Union force.
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	American Experience \| The Time of the Lincolns \| Americans at War
		Port Hudson served as the linchpin of Confederate control over the Lower Mississippi.
		In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, African American troops from the 9th Louisiana Infantry, the 1st Mississippi Infantry, and the 13th Louisiana Infantry fought alongside white troops from the 10th Illinois Cavalry and the 23rd Iowa Infantry.
		Brigadier General Henry McCullough, who commanded the Confederate forces, later noted that his "charge was resisted by the negro portion of the enemy's force with considerable obstinacy, while the white or true Yankee position ran like whipped curs almost as soon as the charge was ordered." The African American troops paid dearly for their bravery.
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	Siege of Port Hudson
		Port Hudson was the longest siege in American military history.
		Port Hudson is significant for another reason too, for it was here that fl soldiers in the regular United States Army first participated in an assault.
		In 1974 the Port Hudson battlefield was designated as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior and, as such, joined a select group of properties which have been recognized for their importance in American history.
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		The 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry spent a large portion of the war in Louisiana and lost many men in that state at the battle of Port Hudson and Jackson, Louisiana.
		In the latter part of the war they were sent east and fought in the Battle of Winchester, Virginia were they lost 20 men killed and 81 men wounded and then in the Battle of Fisher’s Hill, Virginia where they suffered as well.
		It was at the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia that the 3rd Massachusetts lost its Colonel, Lorenzo D. Sargent as he was rallying his men during that bloody engagement.
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	The Siege of Port Hudson--"Forty Days and Nights in the Wilderness of Death"
		So wrote a soldier who had been inside the Confederate defenses at Port Hudson, Louisiana, during one of the longest sieges in American military history.
		Though the Civil War would rage on for almost two more years, the siege at Port Hudson, and the battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg--which all occurred the same week--together struck a blow from which the South never recovered.
		This lesson is based on the Port Hudson Battlefield, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.nps.gov /history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/71hudson/71hudson.htm (214 words)

	Gregg's March to Raymond
		The march was excruciating due to the heat, worn shoes, dilapidated trains, and hostile Unionists who denied the soldiers access to water.
		Our men, after a march of two hundred miles from Port Hudson, La., were scattered about the camp which we temporarily occupied about one mile north of Jackson, Miss.
		The men were in groups, wandering about camp, or enjoying a cool plunge in the grateful waters of the Pearl River, which ran close by.
	www.battleofraymond.org /gregmarch.htm (885 words)

	SCV Camp 1390 Newsletter Online
		All of the fury, all of the drama of one of the most significant actions on the Mississippi River during the South's quest for independence is captured in this magnificent artwork.
		This, the newest release of Artist Joe Umble, of Virginia, is a colorful historic work depicting the highly accurate fire of Port Hudson's Confederate River Batteries upon a portion of the Union fleet of Admiral David G. Farragut.
		The grounded and burning USS Mississippi lies helpless as the bonfires on the western bank backlight her and provide a perfect silhouetted target for the gray gunners to continue her destruction by the blasting of deadly accurate hot shot.
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	NH 8th Regiment
		Battle at Port Hudson, Louisiana on 14 June 1863
		Battle at Port Hudson, Louisiana on 20 June 1863
		Battle at Port Hudson, Louisiana on 21 June 1863
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	Pitard.net: The Civil War
		The Battle of Port Hudson is overshadowed by the larger battle at Vicksburg which defined the Union campaign to capture the Mississippi in 1863.
		John Marshall Brown entered the war in 1863 at a captain, fought at Gettysburg, in Georgia and South Carolina, and then at the end of the Overland Campaign at the Anna River and Cold Harbor before being seriously wounded at Petersburg; he was breveted to Brigadier General by the end of the war.
		Somerville Gill was killed Sept. 30, 1864 at the battle at Peeble's Farm (or Pegram's Farm), outside of Richmond.
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	Port of Lewiston
		The Port of Lewiston is the farthest inland port on the west coast and is Idaho's only seaport.
		With 40 percent of the nation's white wheat traveling through the Port of Portland, much of it passes through the Port of Lewiston on its journey to the coast.
		The port is served by five tug and barge lines, two U.S. highways, 10 truck lines, and a short-line railroad that connects with the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern railroads.
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	George Mason Lovering, Medal of Honor Recepient
		Port Hudson was one of only two remaining strongholds that allowed the Confederacy to block free navigation of the Mississippi, the other being Vicksburg and while Port Hudson withstood furious Union naval attacks and artillery barrages along with two major ground assaults, its defenders held out.
		To put it in perspective, this happens in late May of 1863, the more famous unit of African-American soldiers the Massachusetts 54th has only formed in February of 1863 and is still in training.
		Sergeant Lovering would have been posted to Fort Hudson as part of Co. D of the 4th Mass., but by the date of the action that earns his nation's gratitude he is the First Sergeant of Co. I.
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		ALDEN visited Adriatic ports during the spring of 1920, investigating political conditions and "showing the flag" to protect American interests in the area, her ports of call including Spalato, Gravosa, and Pola.
		While she lay in that port, the British Admiral Sir Tom Phillips, the newly designated Commander in Chief, Eastern Fleet, flew to Manila for conferences with Admiral Hart on 5 and 6 December.
		During the course of one such evolution, she was screening the oiler TRINITY (AO-13) to Port Darwin, on the morning of 20 January 1942, when TRINITY reported torpedoes fired at her.
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	The Siege of Port Hudson--"Forty Days and Nights in the Wilderness of Death"
		So wrote a soldier who had been inside the Confederate defenses at Port Hudson, Louisiana, during one of the longest sieges in American military history.
		Though the Civil War would rage on for almost two more years, the siege at Port Hudson, and the battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg--which all occurred the same week--together struck a blow from which the South never recovered.
		This lesson is based on the Port Hudson Battlefield, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/71hudson/71hudson.htm (214 words)

	Sites in and around Baton Rouge
		Magnolia Cemetery- The Battle of Baton Rouge was fought on the grounds of what is today Magnolia Cemetery at the corner of North 19th and Main streets.
		Because Clinton was connected to the Mississippi River by railroad, the town received many sick and wounded soldiers from the nearby Battle of Port Hudson.
		The plantation was used as a hospital by Union troops during this critical battle.
	www.crt.state.la.us /tourism/CIVILWAR/sitebato.htm (702 words)

	BATTLE OF PORT HUDSON
		The battery was not captured; the battle was lost to all except the fl soldiers; they, with their terrible loss, had won and conquered a much greater and stronger battery than that upon the bluff.
		Nature seems to have selected the place and appointed the time for the negro to prove his manhood and to disarm the prejudice that at one time prompted the white troops to insult and assault the negro soldiers in New Orleans.
		This regiment, provided with picks and spades for the purpose of "mining" the enemy's works, often went forward to their labor without any armed support except the cover of heavy guns, or as other troops happened to advance, to throw up breastworks for their own protection.
	www.coax.net /people/lwf/PORT_HUD.HTM (1208 words)

	Port Hudson History
		They constructed a series of river batteries along the bluffs and, in the months that followed, erected a 4 1/2 - mile line of earthworks to protect the land approach to the river batteries.
		A Brief history of each trail at Port Hudson during the siege.
		May 23, 1863: Siege of Port Hudson longest in American history.
	www.where2guide.com /TouristTrail/outdoors/PortHistory.html (396 words)

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