05/28/1863 to 06/13/1863
Union troops under General Nathaniel Banks surrounded the Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River in mid-May, 1863 and, after attempts to storm the fortress on May 27, 1863 and June 13, 1863 resulted in very heavy casualties among the attackers, settled into a seven week siege. Confederate General Franklin Gardner ended the conderable suffering of his 6,000 starving men and surrendered on July 9, 1863. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
Edward Cunningham, The Port Hudson Campaign: 1862-1863 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1963), 50-55.