(3-07) Enlarge Hudson's Mississippi Battery and Waddell's Alabama  Battery, Iowa Memorial in distant background
 
NPS Tour Guide: Confederates built this work to protect the Southern Railroad of Mississippi. On the morning of May 22 Union troops assailed this stronghold and forced out the defenders. A detachment of Col. Thomas Waul's Texas Legion counterattacked and, in a savage hand-to-hand fight with bayonets, clubbed muskets, and artillery shells used as grenades, drove out the Federals. Position Tablets for Landram's and Lawler's Brigades and Railroad Redoubt are at the two batteries

(3-07) Enlarge Railroad Redoubt and Texas Memorial from across Confederate Ave.

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(3-07) Enlarge East side of the redoubt from Union approach

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(3-96) View from Hudson's Mississippi Battery at Confederate Right of the redoubt

(3-96) Hudson's Mississippi Battery
 
Site Marker: C. S. Hudson's (Mississippi) Battery: Stevenson's Division: Army of Vicksburg. Lieut. J. R. Sweaney: Lieut. M. H. Trantham. A detachment of the battery, under Lieut. J. R. Sweaney to May 22 and after that date under Lieut. M. H. Trantham, served one 6-pounder gun in this position from May 18 to the end of the defense, July 4, 1863. Lieut. J. R. Sweaney killed on duty, May 22, but the casualty not reported

(3-96) U.S. Union Trench, Benton's Brigade. Near east face of the redoubt. Photo taken before NPS restoration of the historic vista

(3-07) Enlarge View of Benton's Brigade trench after restoration

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