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The Battle of Baton Rouge was a ground and naval battle in the American Civil War fought in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, on August 5, 1862. The Union victory halted Confederate attempts to recapture the capital city of Louisiana.
On 5 August 1862, the regiment participated in the Battle of Baton Rouge in which it sustained 42 casualties. [2] During the fighting, the 4th Louisiana seized two Union cannons, but they were soon recaptured by the 6th Michigan Infantry Regiment which also took the regiment's flag.
Battle of Baton Rouge (1862), Union victory in the American Civil War This page was last edited on 14 September 2016, at 13:13 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Battle Date Battle of the Head of Passes: October 12, 1861: Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip: April 18, 1862: Capture of New Orleans: April 25, 1862: Battle of Baton Rouge: August 5, 1862: Battle of Donaldsonville I: August 9, 1862: Battle of Georgia Landing: October 27, 1862: Battle of Fort Bisland: April 12, 1863: Battle of Irish Bend ...
Guns on the Western Waters: The Story of River Gunboats in the Civil War Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1949. Graham, Eric J. Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams of the American Civil War. Edinburgh: Birlinn Press, 2006. Hall, Andrew W. Civil War Blockade Running on the Texas Coast. Charleston, South ...
The Battle of Baton Rouge was a brief siege during the Anglo-Spanish War that was decided on September 21, 1779. Fort New Richmond (present-day Baton Rouge, Louisiana) was the second British outpost to fall to Spanish arms during Bernardo de Gálvez's march into West Florida.
In August 1862, Confederate forces under the command of General John C. Breckinridge attacked the Union defenses of Baton Rouge in an effort to retake the state's capital. In the resulting engagement, the Battle of Baton Rouge , Williams was killed by a gunshot wound to his chest on August 5, 1862, while leading what proved to be the successful ...
Company K left on furlough and never returned. The regiment fought at Baton Rouge before being assigned to garrison Port Hudson. On 4 March 1863, two companies were suppressed and their men reassigned to other companies, officially reducing the regiment to a 7-company unit named the 30th Louisiana Infantry Battalion. However, contemporary ...