Army of the Tennessee

Andrew Jackson Smith brought detachments of two corps up from Grand Ecore late on April 8, 1864. A Pennsylvanian, he finished thirty-sixth of forty-five at West Point in 1838, served on the Southwest frontier, in the Mexican War and in the Washington and Oregon territories, then fought at Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post and Vicksburg. He took a brevet for Pleasant Hill. At Nashville in December 1864 his troops turned the Confederate flank. Afterward he became colonel of the 7th Cavalry, then postmaster of St. Louis, where he died in 1897.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mansfield State Historic Site — 13 mi
  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 — 17 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.
• Fort Jesup State Historic Site — 18 mi
  The 1822 army post Zachary Taylor built to hold the Neutral Ground between Louisiana and Spanish Texas, with the one surviving kitchen, a reconstructed officers' quarters and a museum open Friday to Sunday.
• North Toledo Bend State Park — 23 mi
  A 900-acre park on the Louisiana shore of the 186,000-acre Toledo Bend Reservoir, with trails, disc golf and cabins, near the flooded sites of Pine Flat and other Sabine Parish communities.

More markers nearby

• Dog Trot House — 0.5 mi
• Sergeant John H. Cook — 0.6 mi
• Leutenant General Richard Taylor — 0.6 mi
• Headquarters Department of the Gulf / Headquarters Trans-Mississippi Dept. — 0.8 mi