Battle of Jackson, Station Two

What the Federals lost at Jackson was mostly artillery. In the running retreat a guide's mistake sent the 2nd Vermont Battery down a route it could not cross, and the guns were caught. By the Union count the battery lost 15 men, two guns, two caissons and 16 horses, the heaviest equipment loss any Union unit reported. Col. John Logan said he took two Parrott guns and ten wagons, and the quartermaster's department lost six wagons and 24 mules. Logan then left town with most of his force.

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 — 9.9 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 Four — steps away
• Battle of Jackson, Station One — steps away
• Battle of Jackson, Station Five — steps away