Fort Butler UDC Monument

A monument raised in 1999 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy stands steps from the memorial to Black defenders of the fort. It honors the men who died attacking Fort Butler in June 1863, naming the 4th, 5th and 7th Texas Mounted Volunteers and the 3rd Arizona. Historians describe UDC monuments as part of the Lost Cause tradition, which recast a war fought to keep people enslaved as honor and duty. Here the attackers were driven off in part by men who had themselves been enslaved. The monument was dedicated June 27, 1999.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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.
• Whitney Plantation — 21 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.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 22 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.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 24 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

• Fort Butler African American Soldiers Memorial — steps away
• Fort Butler — steps away
• Bayou Lafourche — steps away
• Historic Donaldsonville — 0.2 mi