The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1901-08-10
lOUlslAnA soLDIERs.
AdSDrwss Of General Leon Jas.
tremskt ~ tho Confederate
Reunion Held at Baton
Rouge.

crate soldier, whose record was made ON the
battle fields of Virginia, was int. oduced as
the first speaker. He passed in view the
achievements of the Louisiana soldiers dur
ing the civil war, aud was frequently APP
plauded. He said in part:
General Packwood, Ladies aud Gentle
men and Dear Comrades: Owing to en-
eagements made some time ago and which
he could not postpone, the governor has
done me the high honor of intrusting me
with the pleasing duty of extending to the
Daughters of the Confederacy, the United
Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Confed-
crate Veterans and the visitors for this &C.
casion a hearty welcome in his behalf
and in behalf of the State to the beautiful
and historic capital of our commonwealth.
the story, fragmentary though it be, of the
proud history of our State. 1t constitutes a
legacy to the generations to come that no
riches should Offset obscure. 1t is a story
that should make every true son and
daughter of Louisiana say, with unalloyed
pride, when Others speak boasifully of their
own State or country: 81 am a Louisianisn."
Every one who can should contribute
SOIHCtutuk towNu inc preservation Oh inc
States history, since events prevented the
systematic gathering of the data and the
facts that would have enabled the faithful
historian to have compiled them in proper
sequence. Hence, 1 have thought It not
inopportune on this occasion to relate some
disconnected facts which may serve a good
purpose. From the adjutant generals re-
port for 1894, / have cleaned this data,
which throws some light upon the part taken
by louisiana troops in the mighty conflict of
I86I-65:
Louisiana gave two full generals to the
Confederacy, Beauregard and Bragg; two
lieutenant generals, Polk and Taylor; four
major generals, M. L. Smith, Gardner,
Allen and Hays. She also gave her twenty
brigadier generals. OF these general Of
fcers no less than six were killed in battle,
Lieutenant General Leondas Polk on Pine
Knob mountain, in Georgia, June II, 1864;
Brigadier General Adley H. GLADDEN., at
Shiloh, April, 1862; Brigadier General w.
E. Starke, at Sharpsburg, Maryland, Sept.
II, 1862; Brigadier General Leroy A. STAFF
ford, at the Wilderness, May 5, 1904; Brig
adler General Alfred Mouton, at Mansfield,
April, 1864, and Brigadier General Victor J.
b. Girardey, at Petersburg, Va, August
1864. Two died of disease, Brigadier Cen
eral John B. Grayson, at Tallahassee, Fla,
and Brigadier General Johnson X. Duncan.
at Knoxville, Tenn. Three were disabled,
Major General Henry w. Allen, Brigadier
General Francis T. Nichols and Brigadier
General Zebulon York.
Fifteen colonies commanding regiments
were killed in action.
The state furnished thirty-four regiments
and eighteen battalions OF infantry; nine
regiments and several battalions and troop
of cavalry; two regiments OF heavy artillery;
twenty nine batteries of light artillery; three
small corps of sappers and miners, engineers
and signal service men.
The original enrolment strength of these
troops was follows: Infantry, 36,243;
artillerists, 4,o24; cavalry, 1906; sappers
and miners, 276; engineers, 2I2; signal
corps, IS; New Orleans State Guards, 4,o33;
total $3.50.
The Louisiana troops that participated in the
of the army of Northern Virginia
were the First, Second, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth. Ninth, Tenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Regiments of Volun-
teers, Wheat's Battalion of Tigers
and Cappenz's Battalion of Zouaves
Infantry. the Battalion of Washington Ar
tillery(four batteries), the Donaldsonville
the Madison Artillery, the Lou
siana Guard Artillery Zone battery each),
aggregating original enrolment of 1852
officers and OF these troops e,252
we're killed in battle. I,4o5 died of disease,
making a total mortality of 1867.
The first Louisiana Battalion (Dreuxs), |
with enrolment of 545, was mustered out
at the expiration of their term of one year.
service. 1t not actively engaged in
battle, and its losses two killed,
ieaths from disease.
The Mccullough Rangers, 81 strong, |
went into the Fifty ninth Virginia Regi-
ment; hence their losses are unknown. |
This company especially distinguished itself
At the Battle of Roanoke Island.
The report of the adjutant general, to
which have referred, gives the losses of no
,ther Louisiana troops, save those OF the
First Louisian Regulars, the Third, Fourth
md Twelfth Regiments of Volunteers Tin
:antry), of the Army of Tennessee. These
our splendid regiments had an original en-
.ollment of 4,67I, of which 7S7 officers and
men were killed in battle, and sos died of
disease, making total mortality of I,29o.
The percentage of mortality in the general
aggregate of the troops in Virginia, and
n the aggl egate in the four regiments of the
ARMY of Tennessee. was the same that is a