and commanded this battle experienced maneuver while firing canister at the now cautiously pursuing enemy. Bouanchaud's Battery was overrun during the battle of the next day. Many of the men became casualties during the two days of battle at Nashville. Bouanchaud's Battery fought under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's heavily outnumbered forces at the Battle of Selma. The battery was located in the outer defenses facing the main approach into Selma and was overrun during the battle. Many of the men became casualties at Selma. Most of the men of Bouanchaud's Battery who escaped capture at Selma retreated to Montgomery, Alabama and moved on to the defenses of Columbus, Georgia but fourteen of them, a detachment, volunteered to proceed to West Point, Georgia and they commanded a cannon at Fort Tyler in the Battle of West Point on April 16, 1865. Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor surrendered his Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana to Union forces at Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama on May 4, 1865. Lt. Justin Plantevignes was the commanding officer of Bouanchaud's Battery when they were surrendered. More than 60 men of Bouanchaud's Battery were paroled at Meridian, Mississippi a few days later and allowed to return to their homes. Of the approximately 540 men that served at one time or another during the war in the Pointe Coupee Artillery a/k/a the Artillery Battalion of Stewart's Legion and later Bouanchaud's Battery at least 70 of them died while in service of the Pointe Coupee Artillery.