Louisiana Civil War Historical Markers, Civil War Battlefield Locations, Union Army Places & LA C.S.A. Cemetery Sites |
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Alexandria Library - This site, located in the town's center square, was set aside for public us...
Allendale Plantation - Home of Second Louisiana Confederate Governor Henry Watkins Allen. Purchase...
Antonia Plantation - A typical raised creole cottage, Antonia was an early 1800's working sugar ...
Arna Wendell Bontemps Home - Bontemps, noted black author-poet, scholar nd pioneer in children's literat...
Arsenal Museum - This building, erected c. 1835 as a powder magazine for a U.S. Army Post an...
Ashland - Plantation home of Duncan Farrar Kenner, (1813-1887); statesman, lawyer, pl...
Battle of Bisland - April 12-13 1863. General Nathaniel P. Bank's Union army attacked Gen. Rich...
Battle of Calcasieu Pass - On May 6, 1864 Confederate troops attacked and captured the Union gunboats ...
Battle of Des Allemands - Le district des Allemands, settled by Germans about 1720, the scen...
Battle of Franklin - General Richard Taylor's 1,600-man Confederate Army fought severe dela...
Battle of Mansfield - Three miles east is site of the Battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864, a decis...
Battle of Mansura - Confederate forces under General Dick Taylor here formed battle line May 16...
Battle of New Orleans West Side - Here on Jourdan Plantation American forces under General D.B. Morgan defend...
Battle of Vermilionville - Confederate forces under General R. Taylor and immediate command of General...
Battle of Yellow Bayou - Also known as Norwood's Plantation, fought May 18, 1864. Last battle of Ban...
Beau Pre - Circa 1828 - This home, originally known as Pine Grove, was bought in 1830 ...
Cabahanoce Plantation - House long since claimed by the river was home of Andre Bienvenu Roman (183...
Camp Moore - One of the principal Louisiana Confederate induction centers and training c...
Cane-Bennett Bluff - Trading Post established before July 1, 1832 by James Cane and William Benn...
Claiborne Parish Court House - Built in 1860, this antebellum building was point of departure for Confeder...
Colonel Leopold L. Armant - Enlisted in Confederate Army, 1861; died heroically at Battle of Mansfield,...
Confederate Cemetery - Within this enclosure are the remains of over 100 Confederate soldiers. Fol...
Confederate Naval Yard - One block west near mouth Cross Bayou at Red River the ironclad Missouri an...
Covington - John Wharton Collins donated land and founded Town of Wharton in March 1813...
Denham Springs - Mineral spring area near here owned by William Denham 1829-1855. Hotel near...
Donelson Caffery - (1835-1906) Site of home of Donelson Caffery, courageous soldier of the Con...
Drake’s Salt Works - First noted by Bienville in 1700, this site is one of the oldest wells in L...
First Rock Salt Mine - Salt evaporated from brine springs on Avery Island since 1791. On May 4, 18...
Fort Beauregard - One half mile west was one of four forts built by Confederates in May, 1863...
Fort Brashear - Also known as Fort Star. Located one Half-mile south. This Union fort was t...
Fort De Russy - Fort De Russy, four miles north, potent Confederate stronghold defending lo...
Fort Humbug - Formerly Fort Turnbull, built by the Confederates to defend Shreveport, the...
Fort St. Charles - On October 25, 1769, under Gen. O'Reilly, Spanish Governor of Louisiana, we...
Fort St. Leon - Designed by De Verges and garrisoned in 1754, but abandoned in 1792. Becaus...
Francis Tillou Nicholls - (1834-1912) On this site directly across from this marker Francis T. Nicho...
Frederick Larned Gates - Former home of Frederick Larned Gates (1827-1897), outstanding citizen, bus...
General Alfred Mouton - (1829-1864) Confederate brigadier General from Lafayette who serviced in Sh...
General Lafayette Lands - An Act of Congress March 3, 1803, granted 11,520 acres of land along the ri...
Grace Episcopal Church - As one of Louisiana's oldest protestant churches, its history began in 1827...
Grave of Unknown Confederate Soldier - Here lies an unknown Confederate, killed by Union troops, April 2, 1864, du...
Hammond - City of Hammond. Railroad came through in 1854. Became a shoemaking center ...
Jefferson Island - Once known as Orange Island. Purchased after Civil War by Joseph Jefferson ...
Jefferson Island - Once known as Orange Island purchased after the Civil War by Joseph Jeffers...
Judge Poche’ Plantation House - Felix Pierre Poché, Civil War diarist, Democratic party leader, prom...
Lacoste Plantation - Ursuline Nuns' property, 1727; Sold to Gui Doniat Dufossat circa 1778;...
Land’s End Plantation - Land's End Plantation est. 1835 by Colonel Henry Marshall, signer Louisiana...
Le Chimin Militaire - Route used by Civil War troops. It led from Mississippi River over swamp ri...
Linwood - 1 mile Southwest. Built c. 1848 by Albert G. Carter. A portion of Sarah Mor...
Loggy Bayou - Red River - Nearest point of Federal advance on Shreveport during Civil War. About four...
Madisonville - Originally called Cokie (from Coquille) because of the abundance o...
Magnolia Lane - Area known as Nine Mile Point; site of Fortier Plantation and one of the ar...
Oak and Pine Alley - Charles Durand, Pre-Civil War sugar planter, credited with planting this al...
Pentagon Buildings - Constructed 1819-1822 to house U.S. troops. used as a garrison from 1822-18...
Ponchatoula Depot - Original depot built by c. 1854 by New Orleans, Jackson & Great Norther...
Port Hudson Siege - Seven miles west is site of anchor fort controlling Mississippi. Here 6500 ...
Roncal - Site of Civil War home of Charles Etienne Arthur Gayarre, Louisiana histori...
Rosedale Road - LA Hwy 986 - Over the Rosedale Road in May 1864 marched the Union Army of M...
Site of Camp Pratt - From 1862-1863 Camp Pratt was official Confederate camp of conscription and...
Skirmish of Boutte Station - Union train with sixty men ambushed by Confederate force of Louisiana milit...
St. Emma Plantation - Scene of Civil War skirmish in fall of 1862. C 1850 Greek Revival plantatio...
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church - 1770 - From which civil parish was named. The church on second German Coast...
Tangipahoa - Area settled in early 1800s. New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad...
The Myrtles - Home of famed Gen. David Bradford, leader of the Whiskey Rebellion. The Myr...
Thomas Courtland Manning - (1825-1887) Side One: Thomas Courtland Manning 1825-1887. On this site in 1...
Thomas Overton Moore - Leader in the secession movement and Confederate Governor of Louisiana 1860...
Unionville General Store - Originally established in 1853 overlooking Bayou D'Arbonne. In this lo...
White Home - South 8 miles on Bayou Lafourche is birthplace of Edward Douglass White, Lo...
Williams Bridge - Bridge site nearby. In Civil War on route from Camp Moore to Mississippi Ri...
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