Bennett's Redoubt

Named for quartermaster officer Major William K. Bennett, Bennett's Redoubt guarded the important Confederate slaughter pen operation that he commanded. Infantry units serving there consisted of the 10th and 12th Arkansas and supported a section of Watson's Louisiana Battery. Manning a 12-pounder howitzer and a 6-pounder gun, the cannoneers dueled with Union artillery on the other side of Foster Creek atop Artillery Ridge, while four mortars at Bennett's stables immediately opposite fired steadily for several days and nights without doing the slightest damage before ceasing operations and probably being moved.

Louisiana · United States