Clay,

I'm sure you have seen this inscription at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/desoto/cemeteries/grove.txt

LORD Steven D b September 6 1835

Fell in battle at Mansfield La

Apr 8 1864-Pvt La Crescent Reg Company G

Mansfield Rifles

and this account:

CIVILIAN REACTION TO THE RED RIVER CAMPAIGN, 1864,
FROM NATCHITOCHES TO MANSFIELD, LOUISIANA by Vicki Betts
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ladesoto/civreac.htm

"Twenty-eight year old Martha Howell Lord emerged from a cave in the Dollette Hills where she had hidden her children, and she and her nine year old son William rode horseback to the battlefield. They discovered the body of her husband, Seth Lord, also of the Crescent Regiment, recognizable only by the socks she had made for him. She returned home, hitched up her wagon, drove it back herself, retrieved her husband's body and took it to Grove Hill Cemetery for burial. To add to her troubles, when she got home, she found that 'Union troops had destroyed everything; bedding, carried off all meat, syrup and lard; all chickens but one blue hen that was on a nest in an ash barrel.' A federal straggler appeared at her house and asked for a drink of water from the well. When she told him that she had no cups or vessels of any kind to offer him, he became angry and shot her puppy which was near her at the time."