Battle of Jackson

Battle of Jackson. Monday August 3, 1863. , From this point, a domed clock tower can be seen (to your left) above the distant tree line. This building (completed circa 1855) was known in 1863 as the State Insane Asylum. , The surviving crew of the 2nd Vermont Battery probably reached Spring Branch by a left turn onto Erin Street (to your right front). , As the battery crossed the stream {1} a round passed through the leg of it's commander, Lieutenant Dyer, killing his mount. The battery ended its retreat at a dead end in front of the Insane Asylum, the result of yet another wrong turn. The gun and its crew were captured here {2} by the Confederates. , The main body of Federal troops were meanwhile retreating from Jackson along the Jackson-Clinton Road headed back to Port Hudson. Colonel Logan's Confederates harassed them along most of the twelve mile withdrawal to the Federal garrison there, which was reached near midnight. Some Federals who wee separated from the main force during the initial Confederate attack reached Port Hudson over the next several days. , Casualties for the Battle of Jackson were small in comparison with other Civil War engagements. The Confederate force suffered ten casualties: 5 killed, 1 wounded and 4 captured. Hanham's Union force fared far worse with 45 casualties: 4 killed, 2 wounded, 40 captured (one wounded), and the loss of the 2nd Vermont's two gun battery. , At the time of the battle, the white house at the bottom of the hill (East College and Erin Streets) was the residence of the notary and portrait painter Thomas F. Noone, a native of Virginia. It is believed that the diarist Celine Fremeaux Garcia (Celine: Remembering Louisiana 1850-1871) lived in a building (no longer standing) to the immediate right of the Noone residence.