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U. S. CIVIL WAR
PHOTOGRAPHS
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VICKSBURG
(PAGE 6 OF 10)
SECOND TEXAS LUNETTE
C. S. A. President Jefferson Davis Monument
at the Second Texas Lunette
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The Second Texas Lunette , named after
the Second Texas Volunteer Infantry that garrisoned it, was a Confederate Fort
designed to guard the Baldwin Ferry Road to Vicksburg. On May 22 the Lunette was
the subject of repeated Union assaults. After the assaults, the Second Texas
Commander said that the bodies lay so thick that you could walk two hundred
yards down the road without ever touching the ground. The Federals started
mining operations against the Lunette but had not completed them at the time
of the surrender.
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FORT GARROTT
Col. Isham W. Garrott Plaque
View from Fort Garrott
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FORT GARROTT ON RIGHT OF LEE'S BRIGADE
This work and the line immediately on its left were
held by the
20th Alabama. No direct assault was made on it May 22, 1863, by
the Union force, but the fire from this work materially aided in
repulsing the assault of Osterhaus's division on the line to its left.
Col. Isham W. Garrott was killed June 17, on duty in this fort, and
Lieut. Col. E. W. Pettus commanded the regiment from that time, until
the end of the defense. Two countermines against the Union approach
were prepared, but not fired. The casualties in the 20th Alabama during
the defense cannot be accurately stated.
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N. P. S. Sign at Fort Garrott
HOVEY'S APPROACH
(UNION TRENCHES TO FORT GARROTT)
Hovey's Approach - Union Trenches to Fort Garrott
(Opposite the "Fort Garrott view" photograph, above.)
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Brig. Gen. Alvin Hovey commanded the Union forces opposing Fort Garrott. His
infantrymen, working under cover of darkness, dug two approach trenches which
joined near the Fort. After connecting the two approaches, the diggers inched
forward behind sap rollers (giant barrels
covered with cane) to within 10 yards of the fort before the surrender of the
city ended all action.
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