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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DZE_union-battery-no-3_Jackson-LA.html
Union Battery No. 3. . . "About the 10th of June, the enemy planted four mortars in position near the battery opposite Bennett''s House. These mortars gave us great annoyance; they were fired day and night, to the very great disturbance of our tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DVM_union-battery-no-4_Jackson-LA.html
Union Battery No. 4. . ".. I am still with Rochester battery and think so far I like artillery service better than the infantry... Captain Harrower shows himself to be a brave and prudent commander." —Private George Coleman Company B 161s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DVL_union-battery-no-5_Jackson-LA.html
Union Battery No. 5. . . "..to our right and left upon tree trunks, were nailed white crosses which had evidently served for practice, to get the exact range of the rebel guns, and they had it. For instance, a section of the First Maine Battery c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DVH_artillery-ridge_Jackson-LA.html
Artillery Ridge. . . "The attack was a huge bushwhack. The rebels availed themselves of the thickets, trees, fallen timber ridges, ravines and also of rifle pits and networks of earth and log construction at convenient points and being concealed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DOC_u-s-army-20-pounder-parrott-rifle_Jackson-LA.html
U.S. Army 20-Pounder Parrott Rifle. Model 1861. . Robert Parker Parrott, a former U.S. army officer, invented a series of rifled, reinforced-breech, iron cannon. The cannon were manufactured at the West Point Foundry in Cold Springs, New York, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DHA_steedman-headquarters_Jackson-LA.html
Steedman Headquarters. . . "Colonel Steedman having been put in command of the left wing, composed of the First Alabama, 15th Arkansas and 10th Arkansas, a detachment of Wingfield's battalion and 39th Mississippi regiment. Colonel Steedman, durin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DGR_field-artillery-limber_Jackson-LA.html
Field Artillery Limber. . . Field artillery cannon, like 6-pounder guns and 20-pounder Parrotts, were towed from location to location by two wheeled carriages called limbers. Teams of six or four horses, grouped in pairs, were harnessed to the l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DBT_port-hudson-peace-monument-a-war-memorial_Jackson-LA.html
Port Hudson Peace Monument. . Port Hudson Peace Monument Two Soldiers One Federal One Confederate Re-Interred May 27, 1990.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21VS_battle-of-jackson_Jackson-LA.html
As the remaining gun of the 2nd Vermont rumbled by this point, hotly pursued by Confederate cavalry {1}, the main body of Federal infantry and cavalry {2} made its way, under Confederate pressure, through the woods and ravine and reached Clinton R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21VQ_battle-of-jackson_Jackson-LA.html
As the Confederates kept up the pressure on the retreating Federals in the ravine to your distant front {1}, Sergeant Willis W. Davis of West Feliciana
was killed near this intersection {2} while leading an attack at the side of Colonel Frank Pow…