 Clark’s persistent involvement in profiteering and plundering enraged Bacon, whose difficulties in accepting military subordination triggered incessant conflicts with his superiors.Clark had Bacon court-martialed, and although Bacon was exonerated, his arrest would again cause him to miss a major battle.The 6th Michigan, brigaded under Neal Dow with the 128th New York, 15th New Hampshire, and 26th Connecticut, joined in Banks’s Siege of Port Hudson and suffered 118 casualties in the ill-fated frontal assault of May 27.