Skirmish of Boutte Station

Boutte Station was one blow in a Confederate push along the railroad on September 4, 1862. The same day, Colonel Edwin Waller's Texas riflemen and militia struck the Union post on Bayou des Allemands, taking two infantry companies. A Union account accused the attackers of misusing a flag of truce. A second report says Confederate guards picked out seven Germans among the prisoners and shot them as deserters beside the track, in a trench dug beforehand. Richard Taylor, whose own plantation, Fashion, stood in Hahnville, commanded the district.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 3.4 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Barataria Preserve — 18 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park unit of bayou, swamp and marsh on the site of a Chitimacha and Houma shell-mound landscape, with the visitor center and most trails closed for about two years of repairs.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 18 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• Whitney Plantation — 18 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.

More markers nearby

• Hale Boggs Bridge — 2.7 mi
• Destrehan Manor House — 3.4 mi
• Destrehan Plantation (1811 Slave Revolt) — 3.4 mi
• Hale Boggs Bridge — 3.4 mi