Federal Hospital

After the fighting at Pleasant Hill on April 9, 1864, both armies had wounded men who needed a roof. Union losses were about 1,369, of them 844 wounded, and the Confederates counted roughly 1,200 killed or wounded among 1,626 casualties. A college building in the village became a hospital for the Union army, while Confederate wounded were treated in other buildings, many of them private homes. The dead were buried on the school grounds, and the graves were later moved to Alexandria National Cemetery. The college is gone; only a road sign marks the spot.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mansfield State Historic Site — 14 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 — 16 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 — 17 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

• The Battle of Pleasant Hill — steps away
• Church of St. Anne (Mother Church of Caddo Adai Indians) — 14 mi
• Saint Tekakwitha Plaque and Statue — 14 mi
• C.S.A. Brigadier General Tom Green — 14 mi