General Dick Taylor Monument

Richard Taylor was the only son of President Zachary Taylor, born near Louisville in 1826 and a Yale graduate of 1845. In 1850 he persuaded his father to buy Fashion, a sugar plantation in St. Charles Parish, where the enslaved workforce grew to nearly 200 people. He sat in the Louisiana Senate from 1855 to 1861. Made lieutenant general on April 8, 1864, he beat Banks at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. He surrendered at Citronelle on May 4, 1865, wrote Destruction and Reconstruction, and died in New York in 1879.

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

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