Fort Beauregard

Fort Beauregard's war was two short episodes. On May 10, 1863, four Union gunboats under Commodore Selim Woodworth demanded surrender and were refused, then shelled the earthwork, wounding one officer, damaging the parapet and destroying one house in town. Later that month a six-vessel force passed by but turned back when the river fell. Lt. Col. George Logan evacuated the fort on September 4, 1863 and destroyed it as a Union column advanced from across from Natchez. It stood on a hill above the Ouachita, one of four forts on that river.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Frogmore Cotton Plantation and Gins — 15 mi
  A working cotton farm near Ferriday that tells the plantation story through the people enslaved there, with quarters, an ancient mound and a rare steam-engine gin.
• Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge — 17 mi
  A 25,000-acre bottomland refuge beside Catahoula Lake, a Ramsar wetland that is a major early-season stop for ducks on the Mississippi Flyway.
• Vidalia Landing Riverfront — 28 mi
  A riverwalk on the Mississippi at Vidalia, built on the site of the old town that moved west in 1938 when the river was cut off.

More markers nearby

• Troyville Earthworks — 10.0 mi
• Troyville Earthworks — 10.0 mi
• Peck Mounds — 11 mi
• Peck Village — 11 mi