Port Hudson is an unincorporated community in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.

[1] During the American Civil War, the area was the scene of bitter fighting as the Confederacy and Union struggled over control of the Mississippi River (see Siege of Port Hudson).

In 1930 the Louisiana Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the Confederate Soldiers monument at the site; it is an 11,000-pound obelisk, dedicated to the defenders' memory.

[8] "The Black Brigade at Port Hudson" is a poem by John A. Dorgan, anthologized in The Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents.

[10] was originally published as a broadside by the Union League, it was included in The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, Poetry.