The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-07-31
Young, P. Warren
Yarbrough, W. H.
promoted to fifth sergeant.

Lyon, F. P.
promoted to fifth sergeant.
1Promoted to forth corporal.
+Promoted to captain and quarter-mas
ter of Ninth Regiment.
Selected third lieutenant. Badly wound
ed at Second Manassas and transferred to
the Trans Mississippi Department., where
he raised and commanded a cavalry COM
pany in the Sixth Louisiana Regiment
Elected second lieutenant.
**Fired first gun in the charge at Get
tysburg.
Thirty five men of the Bossier Volun-
teers died during 1861 from disease without
firing shot at the enemy. Among the
number we're: ]. NJ. Spier, A. J. Spier,
J. D. Stallings, J. H. Sears, ]. O. Sapp
and Girls Swindle at Camp Moore, La.
At Camp Bienville, east of Bull Run,
Va: George R. Boles, William Doles,
E. L. Henesy, William Holt. T. S. Harris,
William Hendricks, W. R. Harrison, r. j.
Harrison, T. S. Hayes, B. D. Henesey,
l.. c. Johnson, Joseph J. knight.
J. NJ. Shackelford, died in prison in 1868,
and J. H. Sandlin, captured near Orange
Court House, Va, died in Federal prison
from small pox. H. N. Ford died in camp
or hospital in 1861; R. J. Commander in
1862 and G. w. Station in 1863.
jeff Odom was mustered into service at
Richmond, Va, in 1862 and died near Gull
pepper Court House, few days after being
enlisted.
| Thomas Lyles was mustered into service
at Bellevue in June, 1861. He was honor
ably discharged from Company D while on
the Rappahannock River in Virginia dur
ing 1862, and re enlisted during the same
year in the Twentieth South Carolina Reg
iment, serving until the surrender at
Greensboro, N. c., in 1865.
| Corrections: DR.. E. A. Shippey was
not member of the Volunteers. William
Cooper was not killed at Spottsylvania, but
survived the war and died a few years ago
at Wylie. Texas.
The following is an incomplete list of the
killed and wounded of the Bossier Volun-
teers during the war:
Winchester, September 19, 1854: Kill
ed-F. A. Bedsoe, W. H. Porter. Wound
ed-Captain R. ]. Hancock, F. P. Lyon,
J.. H. McClanahan, W. Cole, James Saxon,
W. A. Stroud.
Williamsburg, May 5, 1862: Killed
J. G. Sandlin and j. S. Shaw.
Port Republic, June 9, 1852: Wound
GU III dIul-l H. MdTllll. a. . MATHS, D. A.
Ford, Robert Smith, W. G. Hinnant and
W. A. Stroud; wounded in leg-Frank
Daniels: wounded in foot. A. Phelps;
wounded in shoulder-J. R. Moore; wound
ed in hand-James Crawford and James
Smith; wounded in breast-D. G.. Apple
white.
Second Manassas, August $3.50; 1852:
Killed.. NJ. Byrd, L. Cunningham, J. j.
| 10 n,in
Observation-Disclosures R. j. Hancock, in
the neck; Lieutenant J. H. Nattin, in the
breast; P. Warren Young. E. S. Dortch
was wounded in the right arm and was not
able for service until the following year in
July.
Hagerstown, Nd: Killed-Gideon AL
len.
Gaines Mill, Va, June q, 1862: John
Engram, shot in the temple and both eyes
destroyed.
Monocacy, Md, July, 1854: Wound
ed-James H. Marks.
Sharpsburg, Md, Sept II, 1862: Kill.
ed. NJ. Sentell, j. H. Hinkle, William K
Pridmore and John Montgomery; MORALLY
wounded-D. C. Cobb.
Cedar Run, August 8, 1862: Killed
B. F. Marks, Willis Logan. Charles Plumb.
Wounded-Capt. John J. Hodges, Felix A.
Bledsoe.
Shepherdstown, 1868: Wounded in left
Ieg-T. P. Larkn.
Gettysburg, Pa, July 1-3, 1868: Kill
ed-Second Lieutenant R. T. Crawford, M.
Niece, J. F. Hodges, j. H. McClanahan {;
wounded-Lieut. r. J. Hancock and W. A.
Abney.
Rappahannock Bridge, 1868: Killed
Abe Heron.
Second Fredericksburg, near Hamilton s
Crossing, 1868: Killed-Albert D. Fisher.
Wounded-lieutenant J. w. Rabb, left arm
broken near the shoulder by minnie ball !;
mortally wounded-Bradshaw Wilson.
Wilderness, May 90, 1854: Killed
James Blaney, James S. Shaw.
Spottsylvania: Killed-Charles Clifton.
Petersburg: Kiled-A. J.. Sanders.
Right hand shot off-George Robertson.
The above list of killed and wounded is
not complete, but it is the best we can give
from the information furnished US. In a
private letter written to the editor of the
Banner, March ri, 1910, Capt. Richard J.
Hancock said: "There were lot of men
killed and wounded which have not men,
toned. Ask the other members of the
company for the killed and wounded. Di-
rectly after the war, when my mind was
fresh, couldn't think of more than three
men who were not wounded in the war,
and some of them three or four times"
Only three not wounded! What splen-
did record! If any set of men have a
right to occasionally stake something,' -
recite their deeds of valor and recount
what Jackson did to Banks and other Fed
eral generals in the Shenandoah Valley.
and how Lee and Jackson pulverized John