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.
DateApril 12, 1864
Location31°56′28″N 93°17′20″W / 31.941°N 93.289°W / 31.941; -93.289
Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States United States Confederate States of America 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.