On this day the greater portion of the 16th Ohio, camped at Morganza Bend, Louisiana, joined a large force of soldiers and marched out on a scouting mission to the Atchafalaya River, not arriving until the next day. The specific route and final destination of the scouting mission are not known.

This period map shows a notional route the troops on the scouting mission may have taken from their camp at Morganza Bend, Louisiana, toward the Atchafalaya River.  We will assume they marched west.