The Old Cistern- Pleasant Hill, LA
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kwashnak
N 31° 51.183 W 093° 30.817
15R E 451409 N 3524263
Marker as part of the Battle of Pleasant Hill, located as part of the Pleasant Hill Battle Park on Louisiana 175, north of the present village of Pleasant Hill.
Waymark Code: WMJVXT
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 01/05/2014
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As part of the markers for The Battle of Pleasant Hill, was part of the Red River Campaign where the Union army moved northwest from Alexandria along the Red River to capture Shreveport, then the headquarters of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy, and then move on into Texas. Mansfield was effectively the furthest north the Union troops were able to penetrate before being turned back, falling back to Pleasant Hill where a second engagement took place.
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The Old Cistern
Both Gen. Taylor's and Gen. Banks' troops obtained drinking water from this cistern while each army occupied Pleasant Hill during the Red River Campaign in April 1864. The state coach station stood a few feet north of here.
The village no longer exists in this location.
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Marker Name: The Old Cistern (Battle of Pleasant Hill)
Marker Type: Roadside
What does marker relate to?: Battle (war)
Parish: Sabine
Year Erected or Date Dedicated: Not listed
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