Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Friday 30th [May 1, 1863]

Battle of Port Gibson
Heavy skirmishing commen
ced at 1 o'clock a.m. Battle
opens early in the morning.
Enemy in vastly superior
numbers held in check by
Bowen with 5000 men all
day. Bowen withdraws
across Bayou Pierre. Genl
Tracy killed -- our loss about
1000 all told. Reinforece-
ments were immediately
sent to Bowen on his inform-
ing Hayes [?] of the enemy's
landing at Bruinsburg -- were
unfortunately too late to save his position --
this was the turning point of the cam
paign

General Edward Dorr Tracy (1833-1863)
General John Stevens Bowen (1830-1863)

The Battle of Port Gibson was fought on May 1, 1863. Both Taylor's misdating and his last sentence indicates that this may be a later clean copy of his diary.

1 comment:

  1. many thanks for your hard work putting these online yours david stewart..from blackburn,west lothian,scotland,u.k.

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