Battle of Mansura

On May 16, 1864, Richard Taylor drew up his Confederates on an open prairie that commanded three roads, hoping his artillery could punish Nathaniel Banks's army as it retreated down the Red River. Skirmishing began early, and for about four hours the fight was mostly an artillery duel. When a large Union force massed for a flank attack, the Confederates fell back. Wikipedia counts it a Union victory and gives no casualty figures for either side. Taylor's men kept harassing the column, but it marched on to Simmesport and the Atchafalaya.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 4.0 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 5.1 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 23 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 27 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• Mansura — 0.5 mi
• Desfossé House — 0.5 mi
• Presentation Academy — 3.6 mi
• Tunica-Biloxi Indian Reservation — 3.9 mi