Jerry Cronan was one of two Canadians to serve in Company E of the 10th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. He was 28 years old and a resident of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, at the time that the war broke out. He worked as a Laborer. He enlisted on July 22, 1861, at Camp Moore. He was wounded at Chancellorsville, and wounded and captured at Spotsylvania Court House. On May 18, 1864, he was admitted to Judiciary Square U.S. General Hospital in Washington, D.C. His right arm was amputated, but it was not enough to save him. He died on June 2, 1864, and was interred in the small Confederate section of Arlington National Cemetery.

This information is from "Lee's Foreign Legion - A History of the 10th Louisiana Infantry" by Thomas Walter Brooks and Michael Dan Jones, page 199.

He is the only Confederate Canadian buried at Arlington National Cemetery.