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Route 6: Mansfield Battlefield

By: Dan Jovic
Updated: March 6, 2013
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When you bring up the topic of the civil war, many often think of the major battles fought off to Louisiana's east.

But that all changed in the spring of 1864.

NBC 6's Patrick Dennis traveled to De Soto Parish in this week's Route Six, to the site of one of the few Civil War battles in northwest Louisiana's backyard.

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