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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.
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault on 3 July 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg.It was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee as part of his plan to break through Union lines and achieve a decisive victory in the North.
Many of Lytle's civil war era works are preserved in the 'Andrew D. Lytle's Baton Rouge' Photograph Collection [103] at Louisiana State University. Lytle's studio was so successful during the civil war that he was able to buy property with buildings near the Louisiana Governor's Mansion, which became the Lytle family home for the next sixty years.
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1873-7. Rhea, Gordon C. (2010) [1997]. The Battles for Spottsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2136-8. Sears, Stephen W. (1996 ...
Confederate veteran Major Eugene Wythe Baylor of Co. C, 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery Regiment and Quartermaster's Dept. Confederate States Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. 1st Regiment Heavy Artillery; 2nd Battalion Heavy Artillery
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.
Confederate Military History of Louisiana: Louisiana in the Civil War, 1861–1865 (2007) Dufrene, Dennis J. Civil War Baton Rouge, Port Hudson and Bayou Sara: Capturing the Mississippi. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2012. ISBN 9781609493516. Hearn, Chester G. (1995). The Capture of New Orleans 1862. Louisiana State University ...
Historical battles fought in and around the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana include: Battle of Baton Rouge (1779), Spanish victory in the American Revolutionary War; Battle of Baton Rouge (1862), Union victory in the American Civil War