General Alfred Mouton

Alfred Mouton was born in 1829, a son of the governor Alexandre Mouton, farmed sugar cane in Lafayette Parish and was killed at the Battle of Mansfield on April 8, 1864, at 35. Wikipedia reports that, as a militia leader, he targeted free Black residents of Lafayette Parish, and that a 2021 New Orleans commission described him as having owned enslaved people. The United Daughters of the Confederacy gave the city a statue of him in 1922. It came down on July 17, 2021, after a settlement, and was moved to Camp Moore, a Confederate training camp in Kentwood.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 1.7 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 7.5 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 14 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette — steps away
• St. John Cathedral Oak — steps away
• The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist — steps away
• Lafayette Museum / Le Musée de Lafayette — 0.2 mi