General Alfred Mouton Monument

Alfred Mouton was born in Opelousas in 1829, the son of former governor Alexandre Mouton. He finished thirty-eighth of forty-four at West Point in 1850, resigned that September and later worked as a railroad engineer. As colonel of the 18th Louisiana he was wounded at Shiloh, then fought at Irish Bend and Fort Bisland under Richard Taylor. At Mansfield on April 8, 1864, a Union marksman shot him from his horse as he led a charge; he was thirty-five. First buried on the field, he was moved in 1874 to Lafayette, where his statue was removed in 2021.

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

• Mansfield Battle Park — steps away
• General Dick Taylor Monument — steps away
• James H. Beard Monument — steps away
• Battle of Mansfield or Sabine Cross Roads (Area of Second Confederate Charge) — steps away