Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré

Russel Honoré was born in 1947 in Lakeland, the ninth of twelve children in a Louisiana Creole family, and he describes himself as an African-American Creole. He took a vocational agriculture degree at Southern University in 1971 and served in the Army until 2008, commanding the 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea and First Army. On August 31, 2005 he was named to lead Joint Task Force Katrina, where his direct style drew national attention. Later he founded GreenARMY, an environmental coalition, and in 2021 led a review of Capitol security.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 8.1 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.
• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 8.9 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Audubon State Historic Site — 10 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 21 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune — steps away
• Major General Delesseps S. "Chep" Morrisson — steps away
• Julien Poydras — steps away
• John Archer LeJeune — steps away