"Louisiana Regt. with Women Soldiers—One a Lieutenant, Sword and All
Here Jobe Foxworth (Company D "Jeff Davis Sharpshooters" 7th Mississippi; who along with many others attended Centenary College)
relates an interesting story that occurred the night before the regiment moved from Henderson, Tennessee on March 17th. “The night before we left Henderson a La. and an Arkansas regiment landed there. In the La. Regiment there were several women, which circumstance attracted great notice with us, who have never see a wo—man living a soldier’s life. Some of them were dressed in men’s clothes, uniformed. I have heard from John M. Sims that there was one a lieutenant in a company, that he saw her with a sword on and the dress of such a rank. He did not know any thing more about it.”
Does anyone know of any research that might shed light onto the identity of yjis woman officer?
Another excerpt:
16th Louisiana Camp, Corinth, Mississippi
“Yesterday evening [Mar. 18th] after we had fixed our tents I walked about half a mile to the camp of the sixteenth La. Regiment, Col. P. Pond, with James and Daniel Warren, to see an acquaintance and favorite schoolmate by the name of Cockerham, a lieutenant in a company from Bienville parish..."
Would like to know more about these men as well.
From my index notes:
Women in Uniform: “In the La. Regiment [Possibly Gibson’s Brigade made up of the 1st Ark., 4th La., 13th La., 19th La., and Bain’s Battery] there were several women, which circumstance attracted great notice with us, who have never see a wo—man living a soldier’s life. Some of them were dressed in men’s clothes, uniformed. I have heard from John M. Sims that there was one a lieutenant in a company, that he saw her with a sword on and the dress of such a rank. He did not know any thing more about it.”
sixteenth La. Regiment [Col. Preston Pond’s Brigade]
Col. P. Pond [Col. Preston Pond, Jr. 16th La.]
James [Warren] [James B. Warren, Co. B 16th La.]
Daniel Warren [Daniel R. Warren, Co. B 16th La.]
James and Daniel Warren[Possible connection to Jesse and William Warren of Marion County mentioned in Pittman and Rankin Letters]
Cockerham, a lieutenant in a company from Bienville parish [Lt. H. E. Cockerham, Co. I 16th La. “Castor Guards, Mabry's, Houston's”]
"Lest We Forget-The Immortal Seventh Mississippi", Banner Publishing, Birmingham, AL. Ron Skellie, 2012