Battle of Jackson, Station Three

Among the Union men taken at Jackson were Black soldiers of the Corps d'Afrique, and what happened to some of them became a dispute. Second Lt. Oscar Orillion and 21 Black enlisted men were captured. Gen. Andrews charged that Black soldiers were hanged and beaten after capture; Logan denied it on August 8. A Confederate inquiry opened in late August and was halted in September, and Gen. Banks accepted Logan's reply on September 14. In February 1864 Andrews renewed the charge, saying wounded Black soldiers had been shot. No Confederate answer is known.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Audubon State Historic Site — 6.5 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 Four — steps away
• Battle of Jackson, Station Two — steps away
• Battle of Jackson, Station Five — steps away
• Jackson — steps away