Battle of Mansfield or Sabine Cross Roads (Rail Fence Used as Barricade)

After Alfred Mouton fell in the first charge, command of his division passed to Camille de Polignac, a French prince. Born in 1832, he was the son of Charles X's chief minister and had served in the Crimean War before taking the Confederate side. He fought on at Pleasant Hill, was made a major general in June 1864, and in 1865 went to Napoleon III to ask for help that came too late. Back in France he commanded a division in 1870. He died in Paris in 1913, the last surviving Confederate major general.

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

• General Alfred Mouton Monument — steps away
• Battle of Mansfield or Sabine Cross Roads (Area of Second Confederate Charge) — steps away
• Mansfield Battle Park — steps away
• General Dick Taylor Monument — steps away