Battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill Page8

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(April 2007)  This is an original Trans-Mississippi Louisiana CSA Cavalry Uniform on display at the Mansfield Battlefield Museum. Note this is labeled as the 4th or 7th Louisiana Regiment, but the trousers have a blue stripe, not the expected yellow stripe for cavalry. A note of explanation for the blue trouser stripe is included in the display
 
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(April 2007)  Monuments and Museum at Mansfield Louisiana. Please look at the earlier photo on this website taken from an angle close to this angle and compare the changes

      

(4-07)  Monument to French-born Noble Camille J. Polignac who led a brigade of Texas troops at Mansfield. The monument is inscribed "LaFayette of the South"
 
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(4-07) This monument at Mansfield to Col James H. Beard of the Louisiana Consolidated Crescent Regiment is a memorial to a local hero who died at this battlefield. His personal effects are on display in the museum, including the baby shoes he carried for his son
 
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(4-07) Texas Monument, near the visitor center
   
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