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The Mansfield State Historic Site, also known as the Mansfield Battlefield, is a battlefield in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.The Louisiana state historic site commemorates the Battle of Mansfield fought on Friday, April 8, 1864, during the Red River Campaign of the American Civil War.
The Battle of Mansfield, also known as the Battle of Sabine Crossroads, on April 8, 1864, in Louisiana formed part of the Red River Campaign during the American Civil War, when Union forces were attempting to occupy the Louisiana state capital, Shreveport.
Dark and Bloody Ground: The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana. Dallas, TX: Taylor Trade Pub., 2001. ISBN 978-0-87833-180-2. Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1. Parrish, T. Michael. Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie.
Federal stragglers and wounded were met by the hundreds and were quickly rounded up and sent to the rear," explains the historian John D. Winters of Louisiana Tech University in his The Civil War in Louisiana. [7] The Battle of Mansfield took place about 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of the town of Mansfield at Sabine Cross Roads. Pleasant Hill ...
The following is the organization of the Confederate forces engaged in the Red River campaign, during the American Civil War in 1864. Order of battle shows the army organization during the campaign. The Union order of battle is listed separately. [1]
Dark and Bloody Ground: The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana (2001) Campbell, Anne (2007). Louisiana: The History of an American State. Clairmont Press. ISBN 978-1567331356. Dew, Charles B. "Who Won the Secession Election in Louisiana?." Journal of Southern History (1970): 18–32. in JSTOR; Dew, Charles B.
Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. ... Park — the hilly battlefield where Union and Confederate soldiers fought ...
Historical marker at Mansfield State Historic Site referring to role of First Baptist Church during the battle of Mansfield. Mansfield is a small city in, and the parish seat of, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, United States. [3] Mansfield is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area, with a 2020 population of 4,714.