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Department of the Gulf map of the Battlefield of Pleasant Hill, c. 1864. In 1864, Pleasant Hill was a small village, situated about 2 miles (3.2 km) north the current village of Pleasant Hill—a new village that later grew up nearby (in order to be closer to the railroad) and that took the same name, after the old village was abandoned.
Pleasant Hill is a village in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana, United States. As of the 2010 census , the population of the village was 1,232. It is best known for the Battle of Pleasant Hill , a significant battle during the American Civil War on April 9, 1864.
The O'Pry/Elam dogtrot house near Pleasant Hill, Sabine Parish, is a framed four-room dogtrot featuring an interior chimney. This house is the only remaining structure of the original village of Pleasant Hill and served as a hospital after the Battle of Pleasant Hill .
Sabine Parish was the scene of the last major engagement in Louisiana, which was fought April 9, 1864, at old Pleasant Hill and along the Sabine-DeSoto Parish line. The battle took place the following day after the Confederate victory at Mansfield.
Halleck's Plan for the expedition. Halleck's plan, finalized in January 1864, called for Banks to take 20,000 troops up from New Orleans to Alexandria, including the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, the only regiment from the Keystone State to fight in this campaign, on a route up the Bayou Teche (in Louisiana, the term bayou is used to refer to a slow moving river or stream), where they ...
Duty at Little Rock until January, 1864. Expedition to Mt. Ida 10–18 November 1863. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., 31 January-5 February 1864; thence to Vicksburg, Miss., 7–9 February, and duty there until March, when rejoined Regiment. (Red River Campaign 10 March-22 May 1864. Fort DeRussy 14 March. Battle of Pleasant Hill 9 April.
Major led the Confederate cavalry from Blair's Landing back to Pleasant Hill. [20] On April 13, the transport John Warner went hard aground, forcing the expedition to halt its progress. Liddell set up two sections of 6-pounder guns on a high bluff at Bouledeau's Point and proceeded to fire on the Union fleet from the east bank. [21]
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Mercer County; Maine. Norlands Living History Center, Livermore [5] Maryland. Carroll County Almshouse and Farm, Westminster; National Colonial Farm, Accokeek; Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm, Oxon Hill; Massachusetts. Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge; Pioneer Village, Salem; Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Plymouth