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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fortification and siege of Port Hudson—Compiled by the Association of defenders of Port Hudson; M. J. Smith, President; James Freret, Secretary. (search)
one to shoot at. Holding this extreme point at Battery No. 11, under such tremendous fire, was extremely exhausting to the men there. Captain J. Watts Kearney had defended the post until the muzzle of his piece had been split and a trunnion shot off. The companies of Miles's Legion, the three of Maxey's brigade, under Captain C. W. Cushman, and a detached company under Lieutenant Wilkins, had all done severe duty here and lost heavily in officers and men. The detached company from Natchez, Mississippi, was left without an officer, Lieutenants Wilkins and Chase being killed, and their only other officer wounded. Captain Charles R. Purdy, of the Fourth Louisiana, also lost his life here. On the night of the 28th General Gardner sent Colonel O. R. Lyle to hold the position with one hundred men of the Eighteenth and Twenty-third Arkansas regiments, which they did for several days until they were again relieved by Captain Cushman, who volunteered to perform the service with his thre