Battle of Mansfield or Sabine Cross Roads (Area of Third Confederate Charge)

West of the road, Walker's Texans wrapped around the Union position and folded it in on itself. John G. Walker, a Missouri-born general, led twelve Texas regiments that were nicknamed Walker's Greyhounds for how far they could march on foot. On the Union side Thomas Ransom, a Vermont-born Illinois surveyor, was wounded trying to rally his men and was carried to Chicago to recover. Hundreds of his soldiers were captured. Ransom later led the XVII Corps and died of dysentery in Georgia that October, aged twenty-nine.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mansfield State Historic Site — steps away
  A 1957 museum and three-quarter-mile trail on the ground where Confederate troops broke a Union line on April 8, 1864, in a park begun by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
• Los Adaes State Historic Site — 30 mi
  The Spanish presidio that was the capital of Texas from 1729 to 1770, some 15 miles from French Natchitoches, now an archaeological site where Native pottery is the most abundant find.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Mansfield or Sabine Cross Roads (Area of Second Confederate Charge) — steps away
• Mansfield Battle Park — steps away
• General Alfred Mouton Monument — steps away
• General Dick Taylor Monument — steps away