(4-15-2007)  While walking the interpretive trail the ruins of the foundation and walls can be easily seen. Their are plenty of interpretive markers and fence to denote the out line where foundations do not show
 
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Since Gen Banks' Federal troops did not destroy this building during their scorched-earth retreat, the occupying Confederates used the building as a hospital

(4-15-2007) Old LSU ruins
 
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(4-15-2007) VA Hospitals Civil War & Present
 
The current Veterans Administration Hospital at Pineville is in the distance. The photo was taken from inside the enclosure of the Confederate war-time hospital used for men in the Red River Campaign. The fence and cement mark areas where the foundation is no longer above ground/visible

(4-15-2007) Interior of CSA Hospital/Old LSU
 
The interpretive marker shows the floor plan of the old LSU building in Pineville, Louisiana which was used by Confederates as a hospital
 
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The photo taken in what was the interior shows part of the outline of the building used. From the trail and ruins, this must have been quite a building/hospital. There is an account of a soldier from Likens' 35th Texas Cavalry Regiment who wrote of a comrade's death at this hospital in Gary Joiner's recently released book LITTLE TO EAT AND THIN MUD TO DRINK. U of Tenn Press, 2007