Battle Of Lafourche Crossing

Behind this fight sat a bigger plan. Confederate Major General Richard Taylor wanted a push into the Lafourche country to pull Union troops away from Port Hudson, and a Texas cavalry brigade under Colonel James Major took Thibodaux on June 20, 1863. The next evening, with rain having spoiled much of the powder, Colonel Charles Pyron's 2nd Texas Cavalry charged the Union line alone and was thrown back, Pyron wounded. Union losses were 49. Confederate counts are uncertain, about 130 by one tally. Within days Brashear City fell, and Union forces here fell back to New Orleans.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Laurel Valley Village — 1.9 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 4.0 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.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 9.5 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.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 13 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.

More markers nearby

• Laurel Valley — 1.9 mi
• City of Thibodaux / Ville de Thibodaux — 2.8 mi
• C.M. Washington High School — 3.1 mi
• Moses, Allen Chapel, Calvary Cemeteries — 3.3 mi