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Donaldsonville (historically French: Lafourche-des-Chitimachas) [2] is a city in, and the parish seat of Ascension Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [3] Located along the River Road of the west bank of the Mississippi River, it is a part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. At the 2020 U.S. census, it had a population of 6,695.
The First Battle of Donaldsonville took place on August 9, 1862, in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, as part of the Operations against Baton Rouge in the American Civil War. A number of incidents of artillery firing on Union steamers passing up and down the Mississippi River at Donaldsonville, Louisiana , influenced the U.S. Navy to undertake a ...
The Second Battle of Donaldsonville was an American Civil War battle took place on June 28, 1863 in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Background [ edit ] On June 28, 1863, Confederate Brig. Gen. Jean Alfred Mouton ordered Brig. Gen. Tom Green's and Col. James Patrick Major 's brigades to take Donaldsonville, Louisiana .
Palo Alto Plantation is an historic mansion located at the corner of LA-1 and LA-944, along Bayou Lafourche in Donaldsonville in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. It was built in c.1847 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1977. [1] [2] The architecture is an Anglo-Creole type Louisiana plantation cottage decorated ...
The Battle of Georgia Landing or Battle of Labadieville [1] (October 27, 1862) 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.
Coordinates: 30°6′4.9″N 90°59′24.4″W. River Road African American Museum is a museum of culture and history in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, United States. Founded in 1994, it was among the first Louisiana museums to tell the story of Africans and African Americans, both slave and free. The museum notes their contributions to the River ...
Ascension Parish ( French: Paroisse de l'Ascension; Spanish: Parroquia de la Ascensión) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 126,500. [1] Its parish seat is Donaldsonville. [2] The parish was created in 1807. [3]
The Battle of Kock’s Plantation (also spelled Cox’s Plantation and Saint Emma Plantation) was fought July 12–13, 1863, in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, during the American Civil War. [2] [3] It was part of a campaign entitled "Taylor's Operations in West Louisiana (1863)." The Confederate States Army victory left them in control of much of ...