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Re: Battle of Irish Bend Captured Confederates

His Compiled Service Records consist of 3 record cards in addition to the file index card. These may be obtained through the service noted in the Red enclosed box above. They are quite faint to read on-line.

I could find only one other record for men captured at Irish Bend.

Ovide Dumenge, Private, Company ??, 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, captured at Bayou Teche, Louisiana April 14, 1863, paroled May 11, 1863 "below Port Hudson," no further records

M320: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Louisiana

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IRISH BEND LOUISIANA
14 April 1863
OR-Series I, Volume XV, Chapter XXVII, Pg 319

Confederate Forces
MAJOR GENERAL RICHARD TAYLOR

Mouton’s Brigade – Brigadier General Jean Jacques Alfred Alexander Mouton

28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Henry Gray
2nd Louisiana Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel W. G. Vincent

Arizona Brigade --- Brigadier General Henry H. Sibley
4th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Riley
5th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Thomas Green
7th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Arthur Pendelton Bagby
Waller’s Texas Cavalry Battalion --- Major Waller
St. Mary’s Cannoneers --- Captain Cornay [Believe Florian O. Cornay, 1st La. Light Art.]
Rifled Section, Semmes Battery --- Lieutenant West
Confederate Guard Reserve Battalion --- Marjor Clack

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2nd Regiment, Louisiana Cavalry

2nd Cavalry Regiment was organized during the summer of 1862 with men from the southern section of the state. It was assigned to the Trans-Mississippi Department and served within the boundaires of Louisiana throughout the war. The unit confronted the Federals in many conflicts, but in the fight at Henderson's Hill on March 21, 1864, it had 15 officers and 192 men captured. It continued to serve, then disbanded during the spring of 1865. The field officers were Colonels James D. Blair and William G. Vincent, Lieutenant Colonel Winter W. Breazeale, and Major James M. Thompson.
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm

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See also: http://www.acadiansingray.com/2nd%20Regt.%20Cav.htm

Booth, Andrew B. Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands. 3 vols. Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co., 1984. Alphabetized list of Louisiana's soldiers, which includes a brief summary of each man's service.

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Thomas W. Allen

Residence Sabine Parish LA;
Enlisted on 5/10/1862 at Monore, LA as a Private.
On 5/10/1862 he mustered into "E" Co. LA 28th Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as:
* POW 4/14/1863 Bayou Teche, LA
* Paroled 5/5/1863 Port Hudson, LA
* Oath Allegiance 6/10/1865 Natchitoches, LA

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Record of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers

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St. Mary's Cannoneers
1st Battery/1st Louisiana Field Battery

Captain. Florian O. Cornay (Killed April 26, 1864)
Captain Minos T. Gordy

This battery was mustered into Confederate service at Franklin,
Louisiana, on October 7, 1861. The battery remained at Camp
Hunter near Franklin until early 1862, when it moved to Fort
Jackson below New Orleans. During the defense of Fort Jackson
and Fort St. Philip, the men performed able service as heavy
artillerists. They were the only unit at Fort Jackson that did
not mutiny on the night of April 27, 1862, and the officers and
enlisted men became prisoners of war when the forts
surrendered. After receiving their exchange, the men gathered
at Camp Hunter once again to be reoutfitted as a field battery.

One two gun section commanded by Lt. Minos Gordy, fought in the
battle at Fort Bisland, April 12-13 1863. Enemy fire disabled
one gun, and the men had to abandon it.

The other two sections fought at the battle of Irish Bend,
April 13, 1863, the remaining gun from Lt. Gordy arrived to
fight in this battle. In this battle the unit lost its unit
flag; the 13th Connecticut Infantry captured it. (The battle
map of "Irish Bend" in Richard Irwin "History of the 19th Army
Corp, show that all six guns were there this is not true, there
were only five guns at this time.)

On June 3, the battery engaged the enemy gunboat "Estrella" on
the Atchafalaya River and drove it back. The next day, with
another battery, Cornay's men engaged three union gunboats near
the same site. Heavy fire from the gunboats forced the
batteries to withdraw
.
From July 1863 to March 1864, the battery joined in the various
marches of General Alfred Mouton's Louisiana brigade in south
Louisiana, but rarely engaged the enemy. The battery fired on
federal vessels on the Mississippi River from positions along
the levee below Donaldsonville, July 7-10, 1863.

From November 18-21, at least one gun participated in
operations against Federal vessels at Hog Point, near Red River
Landing.

On December 8, 1863, one section of the battery fired on the
Federal transport "Von Phul", causing some damage to the
vessel, and exchanged shots with the gunboat "Neosho".

At the battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864, the battery was only
lightly engaged in support of the Confederate attack.
The battery performed gallant service on April 26 and 27
against three union gunboats and two transports on the Red
River near the mouth of the Cane River. The heavy, accurate
fire of the guns crippled one gunboat and disabled a transport,
resulting in its capture.

On May 18, 1864, In a skirmish at Mansura, the battery was the
last artillery unit to withdraw from the field, and it covered
the army's retreat.

The men participated in the Battle of Yellow Bayou, May 18.
Following the Red River Campaign of 1864, the battle saw no
more fighting. The men accompanied General Camille J.
Poliganc's division on its march through north Louisiana into
Southern Arkansas in late 1864. In November, orders officially
designated the unit as the First Louisiana Field Battery.
Transferred about that time to General John H. Forney's
division, the battery was later stationed near Tyler, Texas.
At the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department in May
1865, the battery still occupied its camp near Tyler and had
four guns. During the course of the war, approximately 161 men
served with the battery.

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APRIL 9-MAY 14, 1863. -- Operations in West Louisiana.

No. 24. --Report of Brig. Gen. Cuvier Grover, U.S. Army,
commanding Fourth Division, of operations March 26-April 20.
In this advance were captured two caissons and one limber, the
flag of the Saint Mary's Cannoneers, a large quantity of small-
arms, some ammunition for field-pieces, and about 120
prisoners. The caissons, limber, and flag were captured by the
Thirteenth Connecticut Volunteers.

APRIL 9-MAY 14, 1863. -- Operations in West Louisiana.

No. 36. --Report of Col. Henry W. Mirge [?], Thirteenth
Connecticut Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, of engagement
at Irish Bend. driving him back in the utmost confusion, captured two
caissons, one limber, a quantity of small-arms, the flag of the
Saint Mary's Cannoneers,

Source: Richard Buie
Historical Data Systems, Inc.

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