Battle of Georgia Landing
The Battle of Georgia Landing or Battle of Labadieville was fought between a Union Army force led by Brigadier General Godfrey Weitzel and a Confederate States Army force commanded by Brigadier General Alfred Mouton near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, during the American Civil War. After a sharp clash, the Union troops compelled Mouton's outnumbered force to retreat.
Lafourche campaign, October 1862: Weitzel's main column moved south from Donaldsonville down Bayou Lafourche. Thomas' column moved west from New Orleans along the railroad. Buchanan's gunboats entered the Atchafalaya River at lower left.
Godfrey Weitzel
Alfred Mouton
Part of the 13th Connecticut Infantry
Jean-Jacques-Alfred-Alexandre "Alfred" Mouton was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Although trained at West Point, he soon resigned his commission to become a civil engineer and then a sugarcane grower, while also serving as a brigadier general in the Louisiana State Militia.
Alfred Mouton
General Alfred Mouton Monument at the Mansfield State Historic Site in Mansfield, Louisiana; the inscription reads: "Here Gen. Mouton fell; here Prince de Polignac sprang to the head of the troops to take the fallen leader's place and bear them to victory." Mouton's grave was later moved to Lafayette, Louisiana.
