Caroline Deslonde Beauregard

Caroline Deslonde was the daughter of André Deslonde, a sugar planter whose family owned a large plantation near LaPlace; sugar planting in Louisiana ran on enslaved labor. Her sister Mathilde married John Slidell. Caroline married P. G. T. Beauregard in 1860 and died in Union-occupied New Orleans on March 2, 1864, after a long illness. Roughly 6,000 people attended her funeral, and General Nathaniel Banks provided a steamer to take her body upriver to her native parish. The Daughters of the Confederacy later held her up as a model of devotion to a cause that rested on slavery.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Whitney Plantation — 5.5 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Destrehan Plantation — 14 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Laurel Valley Village — 22 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 — 23 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.

More markers nearby

• Luis Bethancourt — steps away
• Maurin's Theater — 0.7 mi
• Graugnard House — 1.9 mi
• First Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church Sanctuary — 2.0 mi