On this day the Union troops who had participated in a scouting mission to the Atchafalaya River and skirmished with Rebels the previous day, returned to their main camp near Morganza Bend, Louisiana, arriving there in the morning.

This period map shows a notional route the troops on the scouting mission may have taken from the Atchafalaya River back to their camp at Morganza Bend, Louisiana, on the Mississippi River.