140 Years Later, Importance of Battle of Mansfield, LA, Is Still Debated {Last Confederate Victory}

Shreveport, LA, Times ^ | 04-04-04 | Not given

[Theodore R.]

An honor guard from the Sons of Confederate Veterans marches during a memorial service for Gen. Alfred Mouton before the Battle of Mansfield re-enactment. Mouton was the highest ranking confederate soldier killed at the Battle of Mansfield, which was fought on April 8, 1864.The Battle of Mansfield in April 1864 was the last major Confederate victory of the Civil War, one of the largest battles west of the Mississippi River and marked the sour end of a campaign personally planned by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Still, historians have mixed ideas over its place in the grand scheme of that conflict.

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last major Confederate victory

Perhaps there were minor skirmishes after Mansfield.

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The Battle of Mansfield in April 1864 was the last major Confederate victory of the Civil War...

Maybe in the west, but I can think of a few confederate victories in battles in the east that occured later than April 1864.