Battle of Georgia Landing

Battle of Georgia Landing
Part of the American Civil War
Date October 27, 1862 (1862-10-27) Location Lafourche Parish, Louisiana Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States (Union)	CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
Godfrey Weitzel	Alfred Mouton
Units involved
Department of the Gulf	18th Louisiana Infantry Crescent Regiment Ralston's Battery 33rd Louisiana Infantry Terra Bonne Regiment Semme's Regiment 2nd Louisiana Cavalry
Strength
4000	1392
Casualties and losses
86	229

The Battle of Georgia Landing (or Labadieville or Texana) was fought October 27, 1862, in Labadieville, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, as part of the Operations in LaFourche District (1862), during the American Civil War.

Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, commanding Union forces in the Department of the Gulf, launched an expedition into the Bayou Lafourche region to eliminate the Confederate threat from that area, to make sure that sugar and cotton products from there would come into Union hands and to secure it as a base for future military operations. He organized a brigade of about 4,000 men under the command of his protégé Brig. Gen. Godfrey Weitzel to accomplish the missions.

The Union force consisted of the Reserve Brigade of the Department of the Gulf, 8th New Hampshire Infantry, 75th New York Infantry, and 13th Connecticut Infantry.

The Confederate force consisted of the 18th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, Crescent Regiment, Ralston's Battery, Detachment of Cavalry, 33rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment, Terre Bonne Regiment Louisiana Militia, Semmes's Battery, and 2nd Louisiana Cavalry Regiment (approx. 1,392 men).

U.S. Army Major General Benjamin F. Butler, commanding Union forces in the Department of the Gulf, launched an expedition into the Bayou Lafourche region to eliminate the Rebel threat from that area, to make sure that sugar and cotton products from there would come into Union hands and, in the future, to use it as a base for other military operations.

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