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ZIP code: 71055. Area code(s) 318: FIPS code: 22-50885: Website: Minden, Louisiana: Minden is a small city and the parish seat ... a large Confederate encampment was ...
31st Infantry. Miles' Legion (sometimes called the 32nd Infantry) 33rd Infantry (short-lived merger of 10th and 12th Infantry Battalions) 1st (Dreux's/Rightor's) Battalion, Infantry. 1st (Wheat's) Special Battalion, Infantry (Louisiana Tigers) 3rd Battalion, Infantry (became the 15th Infantry) 4th Battalion, Infantry.
The 8th Louisiana Infantry Regiment formed at Camp Moore on 15 June 1861 with 889 recruits. [1] The field officers were Colonel Henry B. Kelly, Lieutenant Colonel Francis T. Nicholls, and Major John B. Prados. When the soldiers elected new officers on 7 May 1862, Prados was dropped and Trevanian D. Lewis became major. [2]
On January 8, 1861, Louisiana Governor Thomas Overton Moore ordered the Louisiana militia to occupy the U.S. arsenal at Baton Rouge and the U.S. forts guarding New Orleans, Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip. A wealthy planter and slave holder, Moore acted aggressively to engineer the secession of Louisiana from the Union by a convention on ...
The 12th Louisiana Infantry Regiment organized at Camp Moore on 13 August 1861 with 704 recruits. It was the only Louisiana regiment with 12 companies, named A–M, excluding J. The original field officers were Colonel Thomas M. Scott, Lieutenant Colonel Wade H. Hough, and Major John C. Knott. Hough resigned on 4 May 1862 and was replaced as ...
The 1st Louisiana Regular Battery was an artillery unit recruited from volunteers in Louisiana that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The battery was accepted into Confederate service in October 1861. The battery fought at Baton Rouge in August 1862, then it transferred to the west bank of the Mississippi ...
The Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant, formerly known as the Louisiana Ordnance Plant or as The Shell Plant, is an inactive 14,974-acre (60.60 km 2) plant to load, assemble and pack ammunitions items. During production from 1942 to 1994, the Army disposed of untreated explosives-laden wastewater in on-site lagoons, contaminating soil, sediments ...
10th Infantry Regiment was assembled at Camp Moore, Louisiana, during June and July 1861, and soon moved to Virginia. Its members were from Orleans and Bossier and St. Landry parishes many were farmers, sailors, and laborers. Wearing zouave uniforms, the regiment was composed of many foreigners as well as Southerners from other states; but ...