{"id":392,"date":"2010-04-08T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-04-13T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:23:18","slug":"battle-of-port-hudson-may-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/2010\/04\/08\/battle-of-port-hudson-may-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Port Hudson (May 1863)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/upload_images\/port_hudson_assault1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-391\" style=\"border: 7px solid black;\" title=\"Assault of the Second Louisiana\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/port_hudson_assault_detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/port_hudson_assault_detail.jpg 350w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/port_hudson_assault_detail-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a> The Battle of Port Hudson on May 27, 1863 did not include USCT regiments organized in Pennsylvania, but it was among the first major engagements of the Civil War that involved African American regiments. The Union\u2019s efforts in late May 1863 failed to capture Port Hudson, Louisiana, which in turn led to a siege that ended on July 9 when the Confederates surrendered. Yet even though the initial attack had failed, the African American regiments\u2019 actions during that battle were singled out as particularly noteworthy. Union General Nathaniel P. Banks noted in his official report that \u201c[the men\u2019s] conduct was heroric\u201d and that \u201cno troops could be more determined or more daring.\u201d In one day \u201cthey made\u2026three charges upon the batteries of the enemy, suffering very heavy losses, and [held] their positions at nightfall with the other troops,\u201d as Banks explained. <i>Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Newspaper<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/upload_images\/1863_06_27_porthudson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">published Banks\u2019 report<\/a> along with a poem written by a Philadelphia poet. Some northerners questioned whether USCT regiments would be effective against Confederate forces, but this battle and others provided irrefutable evidence as to how wrong their original assumptions had been. \u201cWe may be sure\u201d that those regiments, \u201cafter Port Hudson, [will not] be again exposed to sneers or insult,\u201d as a <i>Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/upload_images\/1863_06_20_troops.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">editorial concluded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Courtesy of the <i>House Divided Project<\/i> \u2013 \u201cBattle of Port Hudson: The Charge of the 2d Louisiana,\u201d <i>Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Newspaper<\/i>, June 27, 1863, p. 209: 2-4 ; \u201cNegro Troops,\u201d <i>Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/i>, June 20, 1863, p. 386: 1-2.)<\/p>\n<p>See images related to this event in the Slideshow below &#8211; <\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle of Port Hudson on May 27, 1863 did not include USCT regiments organized in Pennsylvania, but it was among the first major engagements of the Civil War that involved African American regiments. The Union\u2019s efforts in late May &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/2010\/04\/08\/battle-of-port-hudson-may-1863\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-colored-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}