Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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lawful under the laws of war.
The Confederates have chosen to come bring battle here, and so we use the landscape we're given.
But losing the element of surprise is key because the Union does have several ships there with heavy artillery.
Those are the target of the CSS Arkansas, and that's the kind of bigger part of their strategy.
They do.
And there is a lot of apprehension about that.
The fighting during the midday, the Confederates are actually effective.
The Confederate infantry at pushing the Union back.
Thomas Williams, the commanding general for the Union, is killed basically in the middle of the fighting there.
He is shot in the chest.
falls from his horse.
He has deputies that basically have to reorganize very quickly and take command of two separate divisions.
And they are beginning a retreat back towards the river.
And the Confederates at this point are quite optimistic because the Confederate infantry is doing what it should, which is sort of rolling the Union up against the river.
What they are relying on, again, is the Arkansas disabling those Union ships.
And really, the key point in the battle comes in the afternoon.
The Arkansas had been having engine trouble already before it left Vicksburg.
And the engineer had warned about this.
And they sort of got it going.
But they have more engine trouble just a mile or two north of Baton Rouge.
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