VNMP Tour Stop 3
Third Louisiana Redan
March 2007 photos start on page3
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(3-04) Third Louisiana Redan. NPS
2000 Tour Guide: Here was one of the major Confederate fortifications
guarding the Jackson Road approach to Vicksburg. Concluding that the
fort was impregnable to direct assault, General Grant ordered his troops
to dig mines under the work and blow it up. The first mine was detonated
on June 25; the second on July 1. Neither succeeded in breaking the
Confederate line |
(3-93) Third Louisiana Redan. Shirley House and Illinois
Memorial in left background |
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(3-96) Third Louisiana Redan. Site Marker: CS Appeal (Arkansas) Battery: Maury's-Forney's Div.: Army of Vicksburg. Capt. William N. Hogg: Lieut. Christopher C. Scott: Lieut. Robert N. Cotten. A detachment of the battery, under Lieut. Christopher C. Scott, served one 3-inch rifle in this position from May 18 to about May 30, 1863, when its caisson was exploded by the fire of the Union batteries, and the rifle was moved to a less exposed position. Capt. William N. Hogg killed on duty in this position, May 19 |
(3-96) Confederate right of Third Louisiana Redan. Site Marker: CS Confederate Line, 6th Missouri, May 28-June 2, 38th Mississippi from June 2 |
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