Union Forces Commanded by: Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks
Confederate Forces Commanded by: Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor
**Missing and Captured Conclusion: Union Victory |
BATTLE SUMMARY
Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor gained a victory at Mansfield on April 8. Banks withdrew from that battlefield to Pleasant Hill, but he knew that fighting would resume the next day. Early on the 9th, Taylor's reinforced forces marched toward Pleasant Hill in the hopes of finishing the destruction of the Union force. Although outnumbered, Taylor felt that the Union army would be timid after Mansfield and that an audacious, well-coordinated attack would be successful.