Henry Watkins Allen / Battery 10

Allen governed a state that was mostly occupied. In office from January 1864, he ran Confederate Louisiana from Shreveport and tried to make it self-sufficient, with a trade route through Texas to Mexico, a unified currency, state stores selling supplies cheaply, a cotton-cloth factory and low-cost medicine factories at Shreveport and Minden. Shot in the face at Shiloh and badly hurt in both legs at Baton Rouge, he used crutches. After the war he fled to Mexico, edited the Mexico Times and died in Mexico City on April 22, 1866; he was reburied at Baton Rouge in 1885.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — 0.4 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.8 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 0.8 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 3.4 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.

More markers nearby

• Gen. E. Kirby Smith Residence — steps away
• Cane & Bennett's Trading Post — 0.2 mi
• First City Market — 0.3 mi
• Shreve Memorial Library — 0.4 mi