New Hampshire 8th Volunteer Infantry (Union)
23/12/61
Organized - New Hampshire 8th Volunteer Infantry - New Hampshire
27/10/62
Battle - Georgia Landing - Assumption Parish, Louisiana
27/10/62
Battle - Labadieville, Louisiana
12/4/63
Battle - Fort Bisland - St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
14/4/63
Battle - Irish Bend - St Mary Parish, Louisiana
21/5/63
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver W. Lull
Lieutenant ColonelOliver W. Lull
21/5/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Halbert E. Paine
Brigadier GeneralHalbert E. Paine
21/5/63
Battle - Port Hudson - East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana; East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's final offensive against Vicksburg, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's army moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. Like Vicksburg, Port Hudson was located atop high bluffs at the river bank that commanded the river. On May 11th, Banks learned that some Confederates had been moved from Port Hudson to support the forces defending Vicksburg, so he sought to move upon the garrison before those troops could be replaced. Banks…READ MORE
8/4/64
Battle - Mansfield - DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
The Red River Campaign of 1864 was one General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant's initiatives to apply simultaneous pressure on Confederate armies along five separate fronts from Louisiana to Virginia. In addition to defeating the defending Confederate army, the campaign sought to confiscate cotton stores from plantations along the river and to give support to pro-Union governments in Louisiana. By early April, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' Union army was about 150 miles up the Red River threatening Shreveport. C…READ MORE
1/5/64
Battle - Alexandria, Louisiana
18/5/64
Battle - Yellow Bayou - Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
28/10/65
Mustered Out - New Hampshire 8th Volunteer Infantry - New Hampshire
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