Port Hudson, Louisiana
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Port Hudson is an unincorporated community in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States. Located about 20 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, it is known primarily as the location of an American C
Civil War reenactment at Port Hudson
The Port Hudson State Historic Site is located on the Mississippi River north of Baton Rouge in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, just outside the limits of Port Hudson and in the vicinity of Jackson.
Port Hudson, Louisiana
…in the area, first as a place of burial of Union dead. A portion of the battlefield site is maintained by the state as a park and museum, called the Port Hudson State Historic Site (in adjacent East Feliciana Parish). In 1930 the Louisiana Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the Confederate Soldiers monument…
Port Hudson Peace Monument
Confederate siege gun mounted in the river fortifications, 1863.
View of Fort Desperate from the observation tower.
Outside the Fort Desperate earthworks looking west.