Horace Randal
Marshall, Harrison County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Brigadier General, C.S.A. Vicksburg Campaign, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, Jenkins' Ferry Erected by the State of Texas 1962
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This state monument honors Horace Randal, a brigadier general in the Confederate army whose service ranged across the western theater of the Civil War. The inscription ties him to the Vicksburg Campaign and to the Louisiana and Arkansas battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry during the 1864 Red River fighting. Texas erected the marker in 1962, at the height of the war's centennial commemorations.
Why it matters
Markers like this document both the Trans-Mississippi campaigns often overshadowed by the eastern war and the mid-20th-century wave of Confederate memorialization.
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Related people
- · Horace Randal
Related events
- · Vicksburg Campaign
- · Battle of Mansfield
- · Battle of Pleasant Hill
- · Battle of Jenkins' Ferry
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