Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-01-16

Of Shiloh and the operations about Cor
NTH, including the battle of Farming
ton. With General Armstrong; brigade
his command took part in the summer
campaigning in Mississippi and the raid
into Tennessee.
In the fight at Baldwin, Miss, June
IA, 1862, Castleman's leg was crushed
and he was in the hospital six months at
Enterprise. Miss In the fall Of that year
his company was transferred to the Trans
mississippi Department, and in the iall
Of 1884 he was transferred to the torpedo
service. He invented a torpedo and was
engaged in their manufacture at Shreve-
port until a considerable stock was Sc
cured and was then sent down the Ms
sissippi River to operate with his ipvea-
ton, but before effective results had been
accomplished the war ended.
Genera Castleman surrendered at
Franklin. La, May %. 1865, and re-
turned to his home at st. Joseph and
was soon elected recorder of Tensas Par
ish. which Office he held eight years. In
1868 ne engaged in planting in Tensas
and Concordia Parishes until 1887, when
he came to Orleans and was, appointed
cashier i'm the Internal Revenue Depart
ment under Collector F. s. Shields.
Prominent In Peace.
In 1889 he WAS appointed cashier OF
customs, resigning in 1890 to become Sec
rotary of the Southwestern Mutual Build
ing and Loan Association. He served as
a member of the State Board of Assessor
for the Sixth District of New Orleans
from 1892 to 1896 and was member Of
the Constitutional Convention of 1898
and was for some time member of the
School Board of this city.
General Castleman was one of the Or
ganizers Of the Pontchartrain Railroad,
called the Royal Blue line, on Napoleon
Avenue, afterwards acquired by the Rail-
way Company. He was appointed COM
missioner of the Confederate records by
Governor Blanchard and has worked
several years with great pains in copying
the records of the Confederate soldiers
from the archives at Washington, having
photographed the records as far as OBJ
tainable.
\ In 1871 General Castleman married
Miss Nuna Ogden, daughter of Judge r.
n. Ogden, OF the Louisiana Supreme
Court. After her death he married Miss
Anna Carroll, daughter of d. r. Carroll,
Of this city, in 1875.
Veteran Controversies.
! General Castleman's term as COM
mander of the Louisiana division gave
him his military title. He served in that
capacity in 1901. A fierce controversy
arose in the organization regarding the
failure to call a special convention to
elect his successor, after quorum had
failed at the convention at Monroe. Gen.
eral Castleman sent requests to all the
camps to find out whether they wanted
special convention and the majority re.
piled negatively. Therefore he held over
for another year without election and the
controversy continued until Gen. Thomas
J. Shaffer, Of st. Mary, was elected in
his stead. He also had considerable diff
ficulty IN regard to the Confederate rec
ords, owing to lack of thorough cooper
alton of the veterans in the matter. He
was also involved in the controversies by
which some of the camps in the State
withdrew from the United Confederate
Veterans organization. General Castle
man was man OF very determined bear
ing and adhered inhexibly to the posi-
tions that he had chosen as the proper
ones.
OF Mechanical Instinct.
General Castleman was man of in
ventive and mechanical genius and haC
fine set of tools for cabinet making ant
, electric saws and other mechanisms a
, his home. From old mahogany furniture
, that was part of the heirlooms OF IT,,
family he male number of fine pieces
of modeil furniture, which are valued
|, possessions of various members Of hi
family. Last summer he made a flint
/, boat.
General Castleman leaves besides hi
wife, two daughters, Mrs. E. L. Whit
ney, OF Houston, Texas, and Mrs. j. G
Werner, of this city, and brother, Rob
ert L. Castleman, Of Natchez, Miss. III
also leaves sister, Mrs. j. E. Slicer, o
: st. Joseph. La, and three nephews, DR.
J. E. Slicer, Stanley Castleman ant
Thomas Castleman and two grand-child
rem, Maude and Richard c.. Werner.
General Castleman was very ACTIVE
in all matters relating to the Confederate
veterans and WAS usually delegate t.
=, their annual reunions and to the Stat
. gathering. He figured in the controver
sizes in the recent annual reunions grow
!. ing out of the Louisiana situation, an'
+, especially at the Chattanooga reunion
where the controversy regarding the seat
, ing Of General w. J. Behan as a delegate
was sensational feature Of the proceed