Pleasant Hill Battle Park

A 1953 committee of the Louisiana Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy lies behind this park. The UDC began in Nashville in 1894 and grew from 17,000 members in 1900 to nearly 100,000 by World War I, while Black women were explicitly excluded from 1902. Its leaders promoted the Lost Cause, a romanticized picture of slavery, and pressed for school textbooks to match. After 1945 the group also put historical markers along Southern highways.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mansfield State Historic Site — 14 mi
  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 — 16 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.
• Fort Jesup State Historic Site — 18 mi
  The 1822 army post Zachary Taylor built to hold the Neutral Ground between Louisiana and Spanish Texas, with the one surviving kitchen, a reconstructed officers' quarters and a museum open Friday to Sunday.
• North Toledo Bend State Park — 23 mi
  A 900-acre park on the Louisiana shore of the 186,000-acre Toledo Bend Reservoir, with trails, disc golf and cabins, near the flooded sites of Pine Flat and other Sabine Parish communities.

More markers nearby

• The Old Cistern — steps away
• Headquarters Department of the Gulf / Headquarters Trans-Mississippi Dept. — steps away
• The Village of Pleasant Hill — steps away
• Leutenant General Richard Taylor — 0.3 mi