New Hampshire 8th Volunteer Infantry (Union)
23/12/1861
Organized - New Hampshire 8th Volunteer Infantry - New Hampshire
27/10/1862
Battle - Georgia Landing - Assumption Parish, Louisiana
27/10/1862
Battle - Labadieville, Louisiana
12/04/1863
Battle - Fort Bisland - St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
14/04/1863
Battle - Irish Bend - St Mary Parish, Louisiana
21/05/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver W. Lull
Lieutenant ColonelOliver W. Lull
21/05/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Halbert E. Paine
Brigadier GeneralHalbert E. Paine
21/05/1863
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
08/04/1864
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
01/05/1864
Battle - Alexandria, Louisiana
18/05/1864
Battle - Yellow Bayou - Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
28/10/1865
Mustered Out - New Hampshire 8th Volunteer Infantry - New Hampshire
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