Taylor Beattie (July 4, 1837 – November 19, 1920)[1] was a Confederate States Army officer, politician, and judge from Louisiana.
[6] Beattie received his collegiate education at the University of Virginia, and subsequently returned to his native parish, where be began the study of law, being admitted to the bar in 1859.
[6] While serving in this office in November 1887, he was a leader of the Thibodaux massacre, in which dozens of black sugarcane workers were slaughtered by a white militia during a labor strike.
[1][6] He owned several plantations, but his residence and office were situated across the La Fourche bayou and in a forest of oak trees.
[6] He retired from the practice of law around 1918, and died two years later at his home in Thibodaux, Louisiana, at the age of 83, following a two-week illness.