{"id":3447,"slug":"pleasant-hill-pleasant-hill-louisiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Pleasant Hill is the '64 — the 'April 9' that's the day after, the '3,100' that's the casualties. The 'Taylor' is the attack — the 'Mansfield' that's the won, the 'audacious' that's the hoped. The 'Churchill' is the flank — the 'rolled up' that's the left, the 'counterattack' that's the collapsed.","The 'Banks won' is the retreated — the 'Grand Ecore' that's the fell back, the 'Shreveport' that's the abandoned. The 'last major' is the Louisiana — the 'numbers' that's the engaged, the 'Red River' that's the campaign. Pleasant Hill is the hollow — the 'victory' that's the Union, the 'retreat' that's the continued.","The file keeps Pleasant Hill: the 1864 battle, the Banks retreat, the Taylor attack, and the last major.","Pleasant Hill is the archive's Louisiana file — the won defeat."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Pleasant Hill is the archive's Louisiana file — the pyrrhic stand.","A field keeps its retreat — the file's suggestion being that Pleasant Hill's hold is the hollow: the 'won' that's the tactical, the 'retreated' that's the strategic, and the 'last major' that's the Louisiana."]}],"name":"Pleasant Hill","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["BATTLEFIELD","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","CIVIL_WAR"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","legends"],"desc":"April 9, 1864—the battle that followed the victory.","full_desc":"A site in Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, Pleasant Hill is filed here for what the record attaches to it. April 9, 1864—the battle that followed the victory. The presences in its file go unnamed: the battle dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. 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The site in Pleasant Hill, Louisiana gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Pleasant Hill battle' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The battle dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Pleasant Hill battle","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pleasant_Hill","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3701,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures on the field. Pleasant Hill in Pleasant Hill, Louisiana carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Pleasant Hill battle","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pleasant_Hill","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The April 9, 1864 battle is documented. Pleasant Hill's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Pleasant Hill battle' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1864-04-09","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Pleasant Hill battle","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pleasant_Hill","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. Pleasant Hill in Pleasant Hill, Louisiana carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Pleasant Hill battle","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pleasant_Hill","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The battle dead","claimed_identity":"The battle dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the battle dead. Pleasant Hill in Pleasant Hill, Louisiana carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. Sources including 'Pleasant Hill battle' keep the claim in circulation. 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