Loggy Bayou-Red River

The Union river fleet got no closer to Shreveport than Springfield Landing, about thirty miles below it. Admiral Porter's gunboats arrived there on schedule on April 10, 1864, to meet General Banks's army, which never came. Confederates had blocked the channel with a large steamer sunk on the bottom. As Porter and General Kilby Smith planned its removal, word came that Banks had been beaten and was retreating. The fleet turned back around April 11, and on April 12 the gunboats fought a Confederate brigade near Blair's Landing; its commander, Thomas Green, was killed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bistineau State Park — 14 mi
  A 903-acre state park on a lake the Great Raft made, opened in 1946 with a separate section for Black visitors from 1956, and now known for cypress water and a lake that is drawn down.
• Mansfield State Historic Site — 21 mi
  A 1957 museum and three-quarter-mile trail on the ground where Confederate troops broke a Union line on April 8, 1864, in a park begun by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 24 mi
  A free art museum and 40 acres of azalea gardens in Shreveport, founded in 1946 on Rodessa oil money, with Remington and Russell, an Audubon folio and no photography allowed.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 27 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.

More markers nearby

• Ashpoint Plantation — 13 mi
• The Arrest of Isaac Williams and his Men — 14 mi
• Oakland Plantation — 17 mi
• Mansfield Battle Park — 21 mi