First Battle of Donaldsonville

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First Battle of Donaldsonville Part of American Civil War Date August 9, 1862 Location Ascension Parish Result Union Victory Belligerents United States (Union) CSA (Confederacy) Commanders David G. Farragut Phillippe Landry Strength  ???  ??? Casualties and losses  ???  ???

v • d • e Lower Seaboard Theater Fort Sumter – Santa Rosa Island – Fort Pulaski – Forts Jackson and St. Philip – New Orleans – Secessionville – Simmon's Bluff – Tampa – Baton Rouge – 1st Donaldsonville – St. John's Bluff – Georgia Landing – 1st Fort McAllister – Fort Bisland – Irish Bend – Vermillion Bayou – 1st Charleston Harbor – 1st Fort Wagner – Grimball's Landing – 2nd Fort Wagner – 2nd Charleston Harbor – 2nd Fort Sumter – Plains Store – Port Hudson – LaFourche Crossing – 2nd Donaldsonville – Kock's Plantation – Stirling's Plantation – Fort Brooke – Gainesville – Olustee – Natural Bridge   Operations Against Baton Rouge Baton Rouge – 1st Donaldsonville

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.

[edit] Background

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 retaliatory attack. Rear Adm. David G. Farragut sent the town notice of his intentions and suggested that the citizens send the women and children away. He then anchored in front of the town and fired upon it with guns and mortars. Farragut also sent a detachment ashore that set fire to the hotels, wharf buildings, and the dwelling houses and other buildings of Capt. Phillippe Landry. Landry, thought to be the captain of the partisan unit, purportedly fired on the landing party during the raid. Some citizens protested the raid, but, generally, firing on Union ships ceased thereafter.

[edit] References

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[edit] See also

• Second Battle of Donaldsonville

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