The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-03-14

Commonly known as the vieksburg 28tb L


Editor Argus-As there were in
/ the Confederate service two regiments
of Louisiana infantry known a, the
28th Louisiana, and desiring to put
Oh record through the columns OF
your value paper the main facts in
regard 10 the 28th Louisiana, 10 which
many of the St. Landry boys belong
ed, append the following short his
tory Of it:
Col. Thomas 2Sth Louisiana Regi-
mrnt of Infantry was organized at
Camp Moore, MAY ,, 1862, the follow
/ ing companies composing the rcgi-
ment:
Company A, Capt. Doremus, St.
Landry ; Co. 3, Capt Haley, DeSoto;
Go c, Capt. Sloan, New Orleans Co.
y, Capt. Norman, New Orleans; Co.
Z, Capt. Landry, Ascension Co. F,
Capt Bredow, New Orleans; Go. G,
| Capt. Ncuman, ST. Bernard Co. II ,
Capt. Lauvc, Ascension: Co. |, Capt.
Bryan, CaIcasicu: Co. X, Capt Robin,
ST. Landry.
The Field and Staff was as follows:
Colonel, Allen Thomas, ST. Landry
aforementioned, J. Octave Landry,
ST. Lan1iry MAJOR, {. NJ. Pegues, De
Soto; Surgeon, ". H. VIM, Ayoy-
Giles Assistant Surgeon, D. b. Pierce,
Ascension; Captain and A. Q. NJ, G.
Weighlman, New Orleans Captain
and A. C. S, q. A Woodward, Cal
casieu Lieutenant and Adjutant,
George q. EIms, Caleasicu Sergeant
Major, George Willard, New Orleans.
The regiment At this time, consist
ing Of about 7l0 men, remained at
Camp Moore until MAY 18th, when
they were moved 10 Vicksburg. We
wcre of course not known at the War
| Department until our first monthly
return was made, June 10, 1862. We
had been organized under orders from
! department headquarters as the "2Sth
Louisiana Infantry" some lime in the
latter part Of May, 1862. A regiment
Of infantry had been organized at
Monroe by Col Henry Gray, and
which also took the name Of the 2Sth
Louisiana, but as it served altogether
on the west side of the Mississippi
river, continued to carry the same
| name until the close of the war. We
were known at the War Department
as the "29th Louisiana" but else.
where as "2sth Louisiana
Our regiment WAS engaged in al
1 the battles at Vicksburg, losing Ser.
| geant John johnson and several 9th
ers on the "Ram Arkansas" on the
18th of August, and about so killed
and wounded at "Chlckasau bayou
on the 2Sth and 29th of December
1862. Regarding this engagement the
following order was issued:
HEADq'rRs DEP'T. Miss. d EAST La, /
Nicksburg, April 80, 1868. I
General Order No.
4 To commemorate the gloriou
4 victory achieved over the enemy
on the 2sth aud goth of December
1899, and in honor of the troops en-
gagged on that occasion, the following
named commands will inscribc VIoKs
BURG on their banners, to-wit Third
Seventeenth, Twcnty-sixth and Tween
4 ty-eighth Louisiana Infantry.
4 BY order of
4 LIEUT.. GEN. PEMBERToN
a (Signed) ]. G. DEvEREux, A. A. G
4 In March 1863, in company witt
other tEoops, we went TO the Yazot
river TO undertake the capture Of sev
ersl Federal gunboats, but They hat
left before our arrival
The investment Of Vieksbnrg wa
completed on the nth Of May, 1868
aud we were constantly under fir
until the surrender on the morning 0
July 4lh. Going to Vickshasg i
May, 1862, with TO rank and file
and receiving while there about 20
recruits, we numbered at the surrende
about 450--27 had been discharge
for disability about 80 had desertei
! I'll or 5 were absent on detached sci
j vice-the balance of the grand t0ta
Of 90 had been killed 81 died 3
wounds Of disease.
The regiment was reorganized i
Alexanslria ID 1864 Col. Thoma
having been made Bfigadiar Gen
eral, Lieut.. COL. Landry became Col
and Mai Pegues, Lieut. col. A Psrol
camp had been established II 0pe