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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WDE_exterior-rifle-pit-historical_Jackson-LA.html
"I had a small flanking pit constructed on the outside or rather under my works, and on the left thereof, and from which I continued a deadly fire until he [the enemy] left the ditch. This pit was subterranean and could not be seen from the outsid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WDD_fort-desperate-artillery-historical_Jackson-LA.html
"Seeing Colonel Steadman's right wing...heavily pressed and in danger of being flanked, I ordered Lieutenant Edrington to open upon him [advancing Union forces] with shrapnel and shell. He fired with great rapidity, coolness and precision"Colonel …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WDC_sharpshooter-tower-historical_Jackson-LA.html
"At the same time the approaches to Fort Desperate were checked by deadly fire of the Arkansas marksmen there, who, perched up in their sharpshooter tower, could fire down into every part of the enemy's ditch, which had now been brought within thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U23_subterranean-torpedoes-historical_Jackson-LA.html
"...as an additional security against assault, now that the enemy had approached so near, I had a number of 8, 10, and 13-inch shells planted in the scrap wall of ditches as "torpedoes" and connected them by means of wires, with the interior of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U0B_fort-desperate-historical_Jackson-LA.html
"...so terrible had been the fighting....that the position was called Fort Desperate."
Colonel Benjamin W. Johnson
15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
Commander of Fort Desperate
Not a fort but a defensive earthwork called a lunette, Fort Desper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U0A_union-battery-no-1-historical_Jackson-LA.html
"...they (the Federals) threw up rifle pits all around my works, distant about two hundred and fifty yards, and all of these, aided by artillery, he kept up a terrible and steady fire upon every part of my position..."
— Colonel Benjamin W.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U03_union-batteries-7-and-8-historical_Jackson-LA.html
"...a cleared space was found, overlooking deep ravines in which trees had been chopped down and left as they fell, and on the opposite side of which the newly thrown up works of the enemy (Fort Desperate) were plainly visible. The two leading bat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TYN_u-s-navy-32-pounder-gun-historical_Jackson-LA.html
Marker 1
32-pounder guns were the smallest standard "sea-coast" cannon and among the smallest "ship-borne" cannon in 1861. These cannon were made of iron, were designed with smoothbore barrels, and were intended to throw solid shot at long range …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TYM_u-s-navy-8-inch-shell-gun-historical_Jackson-LA.html
Marker 1
In 1822, Lieutenant Colonel Paixhan, of the French artillery, submitted a plan for using long-chambered cannon at slight elevations to throw large heavy shells at a long range in the same way as solid shot.
Other countries, the United…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RCA_linwood_Jackson-LA.html
1 mile SW. Built c. 1848 by Albert G. Carter. A portion of Sarah Morgan Dawson's A Confederate Girl's Diary was written here. Bombardment of Port Hudson and other events at Linwood are described in this important Civil War source.
(lower plaque…