America’s Civil War author Richard H. Holloway explores six Civil War-era sites in Alexandria and Pineville, La. George Armstrong Custer and his wife, Libbie, briefly made the area their home as the war came to a close in June 1865.
Red River, Alexandria, Louisiana
Fort Randolph, Pineville, Louisiana
St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Alexandria, Louisiana
Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Pineville, Louisiana
Kent Plantation House, Alexandria, Louisiana
This article first appeared in America’s Civil War magazine
