1821 - 1863 (42 years)War-Siege of Port Hudon (Civil)
The siege of Port Hudson (May 22 – July 9, 1863) was the final engagement in the Union campaign to recapture the Mississippi River in the American Civil War. While Union General Ulysses Grant was besieging Vicksburg upriver, General Nathaniel Banks was ordered to capture the lower Mississippi Confederate stronghold of Port Hudson, Louisiana, to go to Grant's aid. When his assault failed, Banks settled into a 48-day siege, the longest in US military history up to that point. A second attack also failed, and it was only after the fall of Vicksburg that the Confederate commander, General Franklin Gardner, surrendered the port. The Union gained control of the river and navigation from the Gulf of Mexico through the Deep South and to the river's upper reaches. +Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Hudson
| Date | 1863 |
| File name | War-Siege of Port Hudon (Civil).jpg |
| File Size | 109.92k |
| Dimensions | 600 x 412 |
| Caption | Still Pictures ID: 64-M-191 Rediscovery number: 06989 06989_2008_001 |
| Special Instructions | 4x5 Black-and-White Copy Negative |
| Author | U.S. National Archives and Recor |
| Source | U.S. National Archives and Recor |
| Photo Source | U.S. National Archives and Recor |
| Keywords | Job 08-A2-288 |
| Linked to | William T Mason (Military Service); William T Mason |
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