Isle de Copal

Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee on April 6-7, 1862.

The next day, April 7, reinforced Union ranks launched a counter-attack against the exhausted Confederates who were driven slowly back into Mississippi. At 2 p.m., the 18th Louisiana and the Orleans Guard Battalion were ordered to counterattack.

Once again Colonel Mouton gallantly led a charge into a murderous fire. The losses were staggering, and the assault failed. Mouton was severely wounded.

While the rest of the army settled in Corinth, Mouton was evacuated to a New Orleans hospital. With his left eye damaged, he was in severe pain but after returning to ''Ile Copal'' for convalescence, he quickly recovered.

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