Civil War

Camp Moore, the Confederate training base this panel mentions, lay near Kentwood in Tangipahoa Parish. Jefferson Davis authorized it, and it ran from May 1861 to 1864 on high ground with fresh water and a railroad. As many as 20,000 Louisiana men trained there, along with troops from Mississippi and Arkansas. Many who died of disease are buried in its Confederate cemetery, where a statue of a soldier crowns a monument dedicated in 1907. The state built a museum in 1965, closed the site in 1986, and a private association reopened it in 1993.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LSU Rural Life Museum — 17 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
• Tickfaw State Park — 20 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.
• Whitney Plantation — 20 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.
• Old State Capitol — 22 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.

More markers nearby

• Civil War — steps away
• The Civil War — steps away
• Cal Ripken, Sr. — steps away
• Ashland — 6.2 mi