Editing Bossier City, Louisiana (section)

===American Civil War===
During the [[American Civil War]], companies of [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] soldiers shipped out of Cane's Landing aboard [[steamboat]]s for distant battlefields.<ref name=":2" /> Mrs. Cane hosted hundreds of Confederate officers and troops who were heading off to war. Mrs. Cane's plantation was fortified to protect Shreveport by three batteries, with Fort Kirby Smith in the center. The others were Batteries Price, and Walker and Ewell.

Fort Smith protected the area from an eastern invasion.<ref name=":2" /> The American Civil War reached Bossier Parish in 1861, and ended in Shreveport four years later, when the [[Trans-Mississippi Department]] surrendered. In the 20th century, [[Bossier High School (777 Bearcat Drive, Bossier City, Louisiana)|Bossier High School]] was constructed near the former site of the fort.