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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/HM2DG8_slaughter-pen_Zachary-LA.html
Slaughter Pen. . . "About the middle of the siege, the enemy attempted to make a sneak through our lines in the night. A picked command was formed, possibly a thousand men. They selected the slaughter pen route. This pen stood on a high bluff, de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DG7_commissary-hill_Zachary-LA.html
Commissary Hill. . . "During the fierce assault on May 27 on our whole left wing, Commissary Hill was an essential object of attack. Here we had a four gun battery, and behind it were our commissary stores, arsenal and old ginhouse containing the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DG6_lower-commissary-hill-battery_Zachary-LA.html
Lower Commissary Hill Battery. . . "Nearly all the pieces stationed upon the Commissary Hill, to guard the approaches to the mill between the left wing and the center, were either dismounted or other wise disabled. Against this point, the enemy h…
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/HM2DBQ_bank-of-slaughter_Slaughter-LA.html
Bank of Slaughter. . . Organized May 27, 1905 and opened for business Sept 12, 1905. The initial capitalization was $15,000 It continued in operation until the Banking Panics of the Great Depression when it failed along with about 11,000 of 30,00…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DBK_mississippi-redoubt_Zachary-LA.html
Mississippi Redoubt. . . "Lieut. Rhodes...deployed his men at intervals so as to occupy the whole ridge commenced firing on the enemy [black Union troops] both front and rear doing terrible execution and throwing them into confusion and disorder,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DBJ_bennetts-redoubt_Zachary-LA.html
Bennett's Redoubt. . . "...no less than four mortars were planted for the purpose of shelling our rifle pits, and the battery at Bennetts stables immediately opposite, but these after firing steadily for several days & nights, without doing us t…
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…