General Taylor and staff make final preparations.
Drummer... beat to form line of battle!
Foot-sore but determined, the ranks form.
Waiting, waiting, waiting. Come on yanks!
"I wish my Louisianans to draw first blood!"
Taylor addresses the men.
The flag of the Trans-Mississippi waves in anticipation.
4:00pm ... The wait is over.
Forward!
Gray's Louisiana Brigade begins the long and murderous
charge across an open field.
Chicago's Battery Boys respond with grape and cannister.
A Confederate volley.
The Union forces hold...
Louisiana's bravest are relentless.
Union lines are beginning to waver.
On the double quick... forward!
"The Big Skeedaddle!" Bank's troops flee in panic.
Victory without rest; it's on to Pleasant Hill for yet another battle.
Mansfield's field of battle is littered with the dead and dying.
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