Battle of Jackson, Station Four

Jackson was a small battle, and its body count is argued over. Gen. Andrews reported 78 Union casualties: 14 in the 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry, 15 in the 2nd Vermont Battery, and 22, 11 and 16 in the first, third and sixth regiments of the Corps d'Afrique. For the Confederates, Col. Logan claimed only 12 killed or wounded, while Andrews put it near 40, plus six prisoners. Editors of the reports place the truth between. Whoever counted, the newly raised Black regiments took more than half of the Union loss.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Audubon State Historic Site — 6.4 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 9.8 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.
• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 11 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 25 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Jackson, Station Three — steps away
• Battle of Jackson, Station Five — steps away
• Battle of Jackson, Station Two — steps away
• Pvt. Joe Fluker C.S.A. Died Here — steps away