Sons of Confederate Veterans (Sabine Rifles Camp 2057)

Sabine Parish's volunteers went to war in scattered companies. The Sabine Rifles became Company A of the 6th Louisiana and served in Stonewall Jackson's brigade in Virginia; the Sabine Rebels, Company B of the 17th Louisiana, fought at Shiloh and through the siege of Vicksburg. Sabine men who fought at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill did so largely in the Consolidated Crescent Regiment. The Choctaw-Apache community near Zwolle and Ebarb, descended from Choctaw and Lipan Apache people, was in the parish throughout; the 1870 census counted 21 Choctaw families along the Sabine.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• North Toledo Bend State Park — 6.2 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.
• Fort Jesup State Historic Site — 14 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.
• Red Hills Lake Recreation Area — 15 mi
  A 19-acre Sabine National Forest lake completed by the CCC in 1940 near Milam, a short drive from Toledo Bend Reservoir, with a swimming beach, fishing and camping from May through October.
• Los Adaes State Historic Site — 22 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

• Early Spanish Missions — steps away
• Zwolle Railroad Depot — 1.0 mi
• Pendleton Crossing — 9.7 mi
• The History of Toledo Bend — 9.8 mi