Mississippi Redoubt

Captain Andre Cailloux, a free Black New Orleanian who gave orders in French and English, was killed leading his company in the May 27 assault on the works at this end of the line. He had been shot through the arm and kept going until an artillery shell struck him. General Gardner asked for a truce to recover the Union dead, and General Banks refused, so Cailloux's body lay on the field until the garrison surrendered. His funeral in New Orleans on July 29 drew thousands, and Father Claude Maistre officiated despite a church ban.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 0.2 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 — 7.9 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.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 8.9 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.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 17 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.

More markers nearby

• Slaughter Pen — steps away
• Union Battery No. 3 — 0.4 mi
• Union Battery No. 4 — 0.4 mi
• Artillery Ridge — 0.5 mi