Battle Of Georgia Landing

The days after the fight changed more lives than the fight did. Weitzel's column crossed Bayou Lafourche on flatboats worked by liberated enslaved men, and families kept arriving in his camps from the plantations. By November 1 he reported about twice as many African Americans as soldiers. Rations ran short, and Butler proposed paying returning workers ten dollars a month on estates whose owners took a Union oath. Other planters fled, a few trying to take enslaved people with them. Weitzel, fearing insurrection, refused to command the Native Guard regiments, and Butler rebuked him.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• E. D. White Historic Site — 4.8 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 10 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park center on Bayou Lafourche with Acadian and bayou-life exhibits, a 200-seat theater and ranger-guided boat tours to the E. D. White house.
• Laurel Valley Village — 13 mi
  A sugar plantation's workers' village south of Thibodaux, with cabins of about 1845, shotgun houses, a store and cemetery, and the 1887 strike and massacre in the parish around it.
• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 23 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.

More markers nearby

• Madewood Plantation House — 4.7 mi
• Napoleonville — 6.2 mi
• Christ Episcopal Church — 6.4 mi
• Francis Tillou Nicholls — 10 mi