Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana site photos

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(April 2007) Enlarge Monument to French-born Noble Camille J. Polignac who led a brigade of Texas troops at Mansfield. The monument is inscribed "LaFayette of the South"

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(April 2007) Enlarge This monument at Mansfield to Col James H. Beard of the Louisiana Consolidated Crescent Regiment is a memorial to a local hero who died at this battlefield. His personal effects are on display in the museum, including the baby shoes he carried for his son

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(April 2007) Detail Texas Monument, near the visitor center

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(March 1994) Honeycutt Hill near the Visitor Center. View is looking south along the crest of the hill. The rail fence borders SH-175 (Old Stage Road)

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(March 1994) Private property, northwest of the Visitor Center. View looking northwest along SH-175 (Old Stage Road)

Site Marker: Battle of Mansfield or Sabine Cross Roads, April 8, 1864. Confederate Battle Line at 4:00 P.M. - First Phase of Battle: From this point the line extended about 400 yards Northeast, thence East about a mile. It extended about a half mile South from here

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(March 1994) Federal Advance at Ten-Mile Bayou. Louisiana SH-175 (Old Stage Road) between Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, west view

Site Marker: Here the Confederate Cavalry commanded by Maj. Gen. Thomas Green stopped the Federal advance in a stiff fight ending at dark on April, 7. The two forces bivouacked on opposite sides of this stream. Green withdrew most of his forces before dawn to a point near Mansfield, leaving Gen. Bee with two regiments to delay the Federals. The 13th and 19th Corps moved from Pleasant Hill to this point on the morning of the 8th

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