Old Confederate Military Road

The road ran roughly 130 miles from Niblett's Bluff on the Sabine to Alexandria, with about 58 of them in present-day Beauregard Parish. Soldiers did most of the work, and a few nearby slaveholders sent enslaved men to join them. Crews eased the slopes at fords, cleared timber to straighten curves and laid logs across marshy ground so loaded wagons could cross. Much of it followed an older route that had served the region for years, and Gen. Richard Taylor ordered it cut to keep his army supplied.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Valentine Lake Recreation Area — 26 mi
  A 46-acre Kisatchie National Forest lake dug by Civilian Conservation Corps crews in the 1930s, with a campground and the head of the Wild Azalea Trail.

More markers nearby

• Town of Elizabeth — 6.5 mi
• Sawmills & Electric Plant — 8.8 mi
• Fullerton Pavilion — 8.9 mi
• Fullerton Mill & Town — 8.9 mi