Skirmish of Boutte Station
Union train with sixty men ambushed by Confederate force of Louisiana militia and volunteers on September 4, 1862. Train escaped to New Orleans. Fourteen Union soldiers killed and twenty-two wounded in the skirmish.
Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 90 and Magnolia Ridge Road, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 90.
Courtesy hmdb.org
