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                      Confederate Batteries 
                     Port Hudson, Louisiana 
                         24 October 1862 


         Number         Cart-     Round       Sphere      Cann-
Battery of_Guns Ca1iber ridge     Shot Shell  Case  Grape ister
No. 1      Site Abandoned
                42pdr    105      390    -     48    20     - 

No. 2      3    24pdr R* 100       60   24      -    15    20
                24pdr R* 125       75   34      -    25     -
No. 3      3    32pdr R* 108      130   50      -     -     -
No. 4      1     8"      110      110  125      -     -     -
No. 5      1    10"      100       49   50      -    50     -
No. 6      1    32pdr    115      160   42      -     -     -
No. 7      1      -       -        -     -      -     -    50
No. 8      2    24pdr R* 200       80    -      -     -     -
No. 9      -      -       -        -     -      -     -    20
           -    32pdr    100      150    -      -     -     -
No. 10     3    24pdr R* 205      150    -    100    20    40    
           -    24pdr R* 100      150    -    100    20    40
No. 11     2    24pdr R* 200       80    -      -     -     -
           -    24pdr     -        -     -      -     -     -


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U.S.  War Department, The War of the Rebellion, 
A Compi1ation  of Officia1 Records of the Union and 
Confederate Armies,  Government Printing Office; 
Washington, D.C., 1882

Source: George Nafziger Order of Battle Collection