Hudson's Mississippi Battery

(3-96) On Confederate right of Railroad Redoubt. Northeast view, Railroad Redoubt in background. Site Marker: C. S. Hudson's (Mississippi) Battery: Stevenson's Division: Army of Vicksburg. Lieut. J. R. Sweaney: Lieut. M. H. Trantham. A detachment of the battery, under Lieut. J. R. Sweaney to May 22 and after that date under Lieut. M. H. Trantham, served one 6-pounder gun in this position from May 18 to the end of the defense, July 4, 1863. Lieut. J. R. Sweaney killed on duty, May 22, but the casualty not reported

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