The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-10-04
OCTOBER 5 1861.

Tomorrow will be the twenty-ninth
anniversary of a day that will be re-
membered by many persons in the par
ish of Lafourche. On that day, in the
pine grove, near Tangipahoa, on the
present Illinois Central. but then New
Orleans, jackson, and Great Northern
railroad, some Is miles from New Or
leans. in Camp Moore, the officers and
metnpers of the second company of
volunteers. raised for the confederate
service in Lafourche parish, known as
the .Lafourche C~reoles." and ccm-
manded by Louis Bush, were muster
ed into service and became company
sc" of the eighteenth Louisiana Regi-
ment, C. 8. 4.
The company was composed OF the
following rank and file.
l, j. kleber GOurdain, captain; 2,
John A Collins, first lieutenant 3,
Joseph p. Tucker, second lieutenant;
+, Cleophas Gautreau, second lieute-
nant junior !; s., S. t. Grisamore, first
sergeant 6 Robert Savoie, second ser
geant ii. Scudday Levron, third SER
geant; 8, Alfred L. st. Martin, fourth
sergeant 9, Levi NJ. Hargis, fifth ser
geant: 10, Theodule Robichaux. first
corporal ; II. Gustave Abribat, second
corporal; II, j. Emile Naquin, third
corporal; 13. j.. Louis Aucoin, fourth
corporal.
PRIvATEs.
Amadeo .balie, Belisaire Ache, AL
fred Eugeran. Franklin Aucoin, Harris
Areeneau, Charles ALBERT, Elphege
Ago. Tliomassin Badeaux, Prosper
Barrios, Onesippe Baille, f. B. Bazet,
+. G.. Beauvais, Olesimon Jeandron,
Aristide Jeand:on, j. B. J~eandron, j.
V. knoblock, Claiborne Lame, p ere
Lagarde, Aristide Leblanc, Demophon
Leblanc, Amadeo Lejeune, Augustin
Lejeune, Joseph Leonard, Noel Leo
nard, C. j. Benoit, Ulysse Bourgeois.
Auguste Boudreaux, Emile Bergeron,
Edward Bergeron, Charles Besson, L.
F. ROudreaux, Dozelien Boudreaux,
Theophile Bowler, A. j. BOuzan, Will
liam Burk, Joseph Brogden, Augustin
Cherami, w. +. Collins, NJ. B. Cook,
NJ. A. Dantln, J. j. Delaporte, Cleric
Deslattes, James Delany, Adolphe Ell
liot, j. B. Falgout, Jean Ferret. j. F.
Gaudet, SEVERN Gauthier, Leoni eau
treau, Justilien eros, Paul Guedry,
Jules Giroir, VIM. Guidroz, Francois
Guillot, A V. Grubbs, j. B. Guillot,
JOS. Hebert, NJ. S. Holcombe, Ulysse
Himel, Aurelien Levron, Augustin
Lombas, VIM. McAuliff, Douglas Nc
Evers, John Mcdonald, Adam Mey-
rome, Justilien MOlaison, Homer
MONTE, Volsi Naquin, Marcelin Parr,
Etienne Parr, Victor Paris, Jean Plat
sance, August Pitre, Joachim Pontiff,
Washington Price, L. f. Ramagossa,
Francois Roger, Leo Robichaux, Ed
mond Rouvert, FlOrian Rouge, Estival
Savoie, Onesippe SEWN, Felix P. SEWN,
Herman Supke, Paul Thibodaux, Au-
gustave Theriot, 10. P. Toups, Dorville
Triche, Joseph TralIant, Joseph Trone,
Antoine Vedroz, VIM. White, Henry
L.edet, Marcel Ledet.
Capt. Bush, wal elected major of
the Eighteenth Regiment, on its organ
isation.
Of the above men, who were mus
tered into service Oh that day,
Capt. GOurdain. was killed on the
streets of New Orleans, on September
IA, 1874.
1t. Tucker, resigned Dec. 1861. lieu
tenant Collins, retired on the reorgan-
isation of the regiment, April 1862.
Abadie, Ache, Barrios, Levron A.,
McEvers, Paris, and Rouvert were kill
ed i'll the battle Of Shiloh, April 8 1862.
Lieutenant Gautreau, was wounded
at Shiloh and died in ThibOdaux, 1862,
Boudreau A., Dantin, Guedry, GuIllSL
j. b., and White were wounded at Shi-
lnh, taken prisoners and died i'll cap
tivity.
Arceueau, Baille, Boudreau, boz.
Gauthier, Gautreau L., Jeandron O.,
Savoie and Tralant, died in service.
Jeandron A., was killed on a rail-
road in 1862. SavOie, R., st. Martin,
Beauvais, Benoit, BergerOn Emile
Cherami, Cook, Deslattes, Holcombe,
Ferret, Laine, Lejeune Amadeo, Lee
jeune Augustin, Leonard N. LoMbas,
Meyronne and Rouge, have died since
the wal. Volsi Naquin, was lost at sea
in 1866, Herman Supke, deserted in
1861. The destiny of Leblanc A., Bou-
zan, Delaporte, Grubbs, and Moutz, is
unknown.
Leonard Joe, Lombas, Giroir, Gull
lot, Falgout, Bourgeois, were wounded
and taken prisoners at Shiloh aud re-
turned. Rouge was taken prisoner
and returned.
Cherami, Badeaux, Aucoin, F. Bou-
d~reaux, Do. Lejeune Amadeo. Guidroz,
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