Battle of Bisland

Before the fighting at the fort came the crossing. On April 9, 1863, two Union divisions went over Berwick Bay from Brashear City to Berwick. By April 11, Nathaniel Banks was advancing in earnest while Thomas Green's Confederate cavalry shadowed the column and reported each move to Richard Taylor. On April 12, Cuvier Grover's division was sent up the Atchafalaya to land behind Franklin and cut off a retreat. That detour explains why a fort held through the fighting of April 13 was found empty the next morning.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 4.6 mi
  A Louisiana State Museum in Patterson on the world's largest cypress sawmill town and the Wedell-Williams racing planes, with a theater and changing exhibits.
• Grevemberg House Museum — 11 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• Chitimacha Museum — 16 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 29 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.

More markers nearby

• Murphy James Foster — 9.0 mi
• Southwest Reef Lighthouse — 9.1 mi
• Morgan City Floodwalls — 9.4 mi
• Atchafalaya River — 9.5 mi