Battle of Calhoun's Landing

Admiral David Porter's flagship Cricket took 38 hits at the mouth of Cane River on April 26, 1864, but the worst loss fell on a pump boat, Champion No. 3. About 190 people were aboard, most of them Black refugees. A shot through its boiler filled the vessel with scalding steam, and by the next day all but three were dead. The boat drifted ashore and Confederates seized it. They were about 200 dismounted Texas cavalrymen and a four-gun Louisiana battery, and their one reported death was Captain Florian Cornay.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Colfax Massacre Memorial — 1.0 mi
  The 2023 granite memorial in Colfax to the Black men killed at the Grant Parish courthouse on April 13, 1873, which carries 57 names and replaced a state marker that called the massacre a riot.
• Melrose Plantation — 15 mi
  The Cane River estate built on land granted to Louis Metoyer, son of Marie Thérèse Coincoin, with the Yucca House and African House, later an artists' retreat; guided tours Thursday to Sunday.
• St. Augustine Church, Isle Brevelle — 15 mi
  The parish church at the heart of the Cane River Creoles of color, begun by Augustin Metoyer on his family's land and still holding Mass for the community that grew from Marie Thérèse Coincoin's children.
• Kisatchie National Forest: Longleaf Vista — 17 mi
  A free ridge-top overlook and 1.5-mile loop above the 8,700-acre Kisatchie Hills Wilderness on the Longleaf Trail Scenic Byway, in the forest Caroline Dormon helped win in 1930.

More markers nearby

• Colfax Riot — 0.9 mi
• Grant Parish and Town of Colfax — 1.1 mi
• Bayou Folk Museum — 11 mi
• Village of Dry Prong — 12 mi