Civil War Years

Brashear City, now Morgan City, is where the Teche campaign began. On April 9, 1863, two Union divisions crossed Berwick Bay from here to Berwick, the first step of an advance that went through Fort Bisland and on toward Alexandria. The railroad that Charles Morgan's company had pushed to the Atchafalaya by spring 1857 made the town worth holding. The war and its aftermath then left damaged infrastructure, logjams, floods, epidemics and the Great Western railroad bankrupt.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 5.5 mi
  A Louisiana State Museum in Patterson on the world's largest cypress sawmill town and the Wedell-Williams racing planes, with a theater and changing exhibits.
• Grevemberg House Museum — 19 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 20 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.
• Chitimacha Museum — 23 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.

More markers nearby

• Charles Morgan — 0.2 mi
• Fort Star — 0.3 mi
• Morgan City Floodwalls — 0.3 mi
• Atchafalaya River — 0.4 mi