Officers Killed

Two Confederate brigade commanders died of wounds from this fight. William Read Scurry, born in Tennessee in 1821, went to Texas in 1839, sat in the Republic's Congress and led Confederate troops at Glorieta Pass in New Mexico in 1862; he died on April 30, 1864, and Texas buried him in Austin. Horace Randal, a West Point graduate who ranked 45th in a class of 46, led his brigade at Mansfield and was mortally wounded here, dying on May 2. Jefferson Davis later revoked the general's appointment Kirby Smith had given him. He lies in Marshall, Texas.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garvan Woodland Gardens — 31 mi
  A 210-acre botanical garden on a Lake Hamilton peninsula that one gardener built over thirty years and left to the University of Arkansas.

More markers nearby

• Union Wounded — steps away
• Skirmish at Guesses Creek — 3.0 mi
• Pontoon Bridge — 3.0 mi
• Jenkins Ferry — 3.0 mi