Landmarks
- A portion of the battlefield site is maintained as a park and museum by the state as the Port Hudson State Historic Site (in adjacent East Feliciana Parish).
- The Confederate Soldiers monument is an 11,000 pound obelisk dedicated to the defenders' memory in 1930 by the Louisiana Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. In 2007 the monument was moved to the yard of one of Port Hudson’s few remaining buildings that was there during the siege.
- The Port Hudson National Cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. It is also among 26 featured sites on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
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