Battle of Blair's Landing

Battle of Blair's Landing
Part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War
Wartime sketch shows the fight at Blair's Plantation.
Date April 12, 1864 Location Red River Parish, Louisiana 31°56′28″N 93°17′20″W / 31.941°N 93.289°W / 31.941; -93.289 Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States	Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
David Dixon Porter Thomas Kilby Smith	Tom Green †
Units involved
XVII Corps Mississippi River Squadron	Green's cavalry
Strength
2,500 men 6 gunboats, 20 transports	750–1,000 men 1–2 batteries
Casualties and losses
57–60, damaged vessels	57, disabled guns

The Battle of Blair's Landing (April 12, 1864) saw a Confederate cavalry-artillery force commanded by Brigadier General Tom Green attack several Union gunboats led by Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter and soldiers in river transports under Brigadier General Thomas Kilby Smith in Red River Parish, Louisiana. Green's force attempted but failed to stop the retreat of Porter's and Smith's forces downstream in an action that was part of the Red River Campaign of the American Civil War. The only significant casualty during the fighting was Green, who was killed by an artillery round.