(3-2011) Enlarge View from Tour Stop of Graveyard Road Approach to Stockade Redan. NPS Tour Guide: From this and nearby points on May 19, Gen. William T. Sherman launched an infantry attack against the Stockade Redan (Tour Stop 10). The Federals were repulsed with heavy losses. Three days later, as part of a general assault on the Confederate lines, Union soldiers attacked the redan again. This attack also failed

(3-2011) Enlarge Stockade Redan Attack Tour Stop area

(1905) View of Stockade Redan from the east
  
This Albert Kern photograph courtesy of Jeff Giambrone, Clinton, MS
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Albert Kern was born in 1847 in Germantown, Ohio. He came to Dayton, Ohio in the early 1870s to become a successful lawyer
 
Between the years of 1880 to 1920 he was an enthusiastic photographer in the Dayton area. He served at one time as vice-president of the Dayton Camera Club. He was also a devotee of military history and spent many hours recording aspects of American military life, customs, battlefields and the like. Later many of his photos were used in articles dealing with military history

(3-2011)  Enlarge Old Graveyard Road approach to Stockade Redan
 
Panorama: Stockade Redan from attack area tour stop
Panorama: Stockade Redan from Battery A

(3-2011) Enlarge Ravine between Stockade Redan and Stockade Redan Attack tour stop

(5-2011)  Enlarge Site Marker: U.S. Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: 3d Div.: 15th Corps: Army of the Tennessee. Lieut. John A. Fitch: Capt. Allen C. Waterhouse. A detachment of the battery served one 30-pounder Parrott rifle in this position, Battery Jenney, from about June 5 to June 22, 1863, when the battery moved with the 1st and 3d brigades of its division to Bear Creek on the exterior line
 
Joel Manuel photo

(3-96)  Area west of Tour Stop 5 (Stockade Redan Attack) across Old Graveyard Road. Stockade Redan in background. Start of Buckland's Approach at right center behind marker

(3-96) This position is in the tree line south of the parking area for Tour Stop 5 (Stockade Redan Attack). Site Marker: U.S. Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: 2d Div.: 15th Corps: Army of the Tennessee. Capt. Samuel E. Barrett: Lieut. Israel P. Rumsey. The battery served four 6-pounder guns and two 12-pounder howitzers in this position from the morning of May 22 to the evening of May 26, when it went with the force under command of Gen. Blair on the expedition to Mechanicsburg. The battery did not return to the investment line but was attached to Mower's Brigade and engaged at Richmond, Louisiana, June 15. It served two of its pieces by successive details on the  peninsula opposite Vicksburg from June 23 to the end of the siege, July 4, 1863. Aggregate reported casualties in battery during the campaign and siege: Killed 2, wounded 2, Total 4

(3-02) Enlarge Battery A, east of Stockade Redan. Site Marker: U.S. Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery; 2d Div, 15th Corps, Army of the Tennessee. Capt. Peter P. Wood. A detachment of the battery served two 12-pounder howitzers and one 30-pounder Parrott rifle in this position from about June 23 to the end of the siege, July 4, 1863