C.S.A. Brigadier General Tom Green

Green died in a fight that lasted about an hour. On April 12, 1864, he led some 750 to 1,000 mostly dismounted Texas cavalrymen of the 12th, 23rd and 36th regiments against Admiral David Dixon Porter's fleet at Blair's Landing. Twenty transports carried about 2,500 Union infantry under Thomas Kilby Smith, covered by gunboats including the Osage, Lexington, Neosho and Fort Hindman. Union fire disabled several Confederate guns. Green ordered a charge and an artillery round killed him. The fleet resumed its retreat downriver at dusk, and Hamilton Bee took over the cavalry.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Los Adaes State Historic Site — 16 mi
  The Spanish presidio that was the capital of Texas from 1729 to 1770, some 15 miles from French Natchitoches, now an archaeological site where Native pottery is the most abundant find.
• Natchitoches Historic District — 17 mi
  The riverfront blocks of the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, founded in 1714 at a Natchitoches village, with a brick-paved Front Street, Cane River frontage and the largest bousillage construction in the South.
• Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site — 18 mi
  A reconstruction of the 1716 French fort beside the Natchitoches village, with a palisade of nearly 2,000 pine logs, a chapel and storeroom, and living-history programs, open Wednesday to Sunday.
• Mansfield State Historic Site — 22 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.

More markers nearby

• Church of St. Anne (Mother Church of Caddo Adai Indians) — 11 mi
• Saint Tekakwitha Plaque and Statue — 11 mi
• Federal Hospital — 14 mi
• The Battle of Pleasant Hill — 14 mi