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Map of Mansfield Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program The battle between Gen. Banks force and that of General Dick Taylor, During the morning, Taylor positioned Mouton's division on the east side of the clearing. Walker's division arrived in the afternoon and formed on Mouton's right.
Battle of Mansfield map shows Scurry's brigade at top center. In July 1863 the 16th Texas Cavalry marched 300 mi (483 km) across central and northern Louisiana. Private Andrew Jackson Lucas remembered that the soldiers were often underfed and, "We had but little in the way of camp equipage and suffered much from rain and cold."
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 .
12th Texas Infantry Regiment: Col Overton C. Young 18th Texas Infantry Regiment: Col William H. King: 22nd Texas Infantry Regiment: Col Richard B. Hubbard: 13th Texas Cavalry Regiment (dismounted): Col Anderson F. Crawford Haldeman's Texas Battery: Cpt Horace Haldeman 2nd Brigade BG Horace Randal: 11th Texas Infantry Regiment: Col Oran Milo Roberts
The regiment became part of a brigade led by Hamilton Bee that was headquartered at Brownsville, Texas, and guarded the Texas Gulf Coast. [2] In 1864, the brigade transferred to Louisiana and fought at Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Blair's Landing in the Red River Campaign. The regiment was dismounted to serve as infantry in February 1865 and ...
The 22nd Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment first began organizing in late 1861 and by July 1862, it moved to the Indian Territory. The unit fought at Newtonia and McGuire's Store in fall 1862 and was dismounted soon after.
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Battle of Mansfield, 8 April 1864. The brigade of Randal went into quarters at Marksville, Louisiana, in winter 1863–1864. [20] On 20 January 1864, the 11th Texas was pitted against the 12th Texas Infantry Regiment in a match-drill which the 11th Texas won. [21]