In active service during the Siege of Port Hudson FIELD AND STAFF Colonel — Richard E. Holcomb of Connecticut. Killed in action Jun...

Arrived at Port Hudson. Went ashore; but the place did not look much as it did during the siege — the works were narrowed up. I recognized ...

After tying up to the bank all night for fear of sharp shooters along the shore in the woods; we passed Fort De Russey at Snaggy Point. Thi...

At 8 a. m., we were on the march for Port Hudson. Five miles on the way, an officer met us informing us that Port Hudson had surrendered an...

This was the gloomest day to me I remember since the war begun. But it need not have been so, bad I known the true condition of affairs. As...

Major Bullin shot by a drunken soldier by the name of Scot, who was sent to New Orleans, tried by a court marshal and hung. SOURCE: ...

First Louisiana ordered to Donaldsonville. Went in wagons by way of Springfield Landing, 18 miles below Port Hudson, where we went on board...

Back to our camping ground again. Major W. O. Fisk returned from New Orleans and took command of the regiment in place of Col. Holcomb, who...

Our brigade, under Gen. Morgan, with three batteries and a cavalry force under Col. Grierson, went out on the Jackson road in pursuit of so...

Moved back to our old quarters in rear of the batteries. SOURCE: Abstracted from George G. Smith,  Leaves from a Soldier's Diary...

First Louisiana went out twenty miles to guard a wagon train to get cotton; got 75 bales and several loads of corn. SOURCE: Abstract...

We have now arrived through the vicissitudes and chances of this siege, to another day that will ever be memorable, not for the amount of g...

General Banks sent a flag of truce to General Gardner demanding a surrender of the place, but the rebel General could not see the necessity...

At night, while the First Louisiana was sleeping, a charge was being made on the right and left of the rebel line at the same instant. The ...

Guns all in position — one 10-inch mortar, three 8-inch mortars, one a 32 pound Parrot rifle, and two brass field pieces. These guns occup...

First Louisiana relieved by the 8th Vermont Infantry. After dark it fell back to the rear about half a mile, into a ravine. The rebels shel...

Shooting at each other had begun to be regarded more as a pastime than otherwise, but the enemy did not seem to regard it in that light, an...

Early in the morning before sunrise the First Louisiana was ordered into line of battle. Companies B, H, and E, were ordered “as skirmisher...

[In the morning] we marched three miles further round towards the enemy's right, in the rear of some woods where the 91st New York depl...

Officially reported that Port Hudson has fallen and the great Mississippi is ours SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd ...