Historic Attu Battlefield: Commemorating The Pivotal Civil War Skirmish
Attu Battlefield National Historic Landmark, established in 1968, commemorates the 1864 Battle of Attu, a key skirmish in the Civil War’s Red River Campaign. Located in Attu, Louisiana, the battlefield preserves the crucial Union victory that broke Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith’s three-month-long siege of Fort De Russy. Designated a National Historic Landmark for its…