Civil War Memorial

Nobody died fighting at Niblett's Bluff. The Union army never tested the fort, and The Record's history says the only deaths there came from a measles epidemic in the camp. The Louisiana and Texas Divisions of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a group that promoted the Lost Cause version of the war, put up this memorial in 1958. The men were mustered to defend slavery, and the 1860 census counted 1,171 enslaved people among 5,928 residents of Calcasieu Parish, about one in five.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Niblett's Bluff Park — steps away
  A community park on the Louisiana bank of the Sabine, on the site of a river crossing, a plantation, a Confederate post and a lumber camp.
• Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center — 8.1 mi
  More than 250 acres on Adams Bayou, begun by H. J. Lutcher Stark in 1937, with garden rooms, a cypress-tupelo swamp, a heronry blind and free pontoon tours in season.
• Stark Museum of Art — 8.2 mi
  A white-marble museum in Orange built by the Stark Foundation and opened in 1978, holding Western art, American Indian art, Audubon's Birds of America and Steuben glass, free to enter.
• Creole Nature Trail Adventure Point — 18 mi
  A free visitor center at the western gateway of Louisiana's only All-American Road, with exhibits on alligators, migrating songbirds and the estuary.

More markers nearby

• The Old Confederate Military Road — steps away
• Emma Henderson Wallace — 7.4 mi
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown — 7.4 mi
• Black Education in Orange County — 7.4 mi