Battle of Mansfield Louisiana News Articles

[gentlemanrob]

Articles about the Battle of Mansfield.

 

[bayouace]

Without Kirby Smith's sad obsession with Steele in Arkansas in his allocation of troops, could this have been even worse for Banks? Taylor certainly felt so.

 

[LSBusch]

These are hard to read after reading the reports of Union officers and northern newspaper articles. It's true that "the morning of the 10th inst. dawned upon a flying foe," but the Union troops believed they'd won until Banks forced them to retreat.

 

[gentlemanrob]

These are hard to read after reading the reports of Union officers and northern newspaper articles. It's true that "the morning of the 10th inst. dawned upon a flying foe," but the Union troops believed they'd won until Banks forced them to retreat.

Most of these came out over 100 years.