(as Listed in Service Records of the Men A copy of this print is reproduced in Still, the Gen. John C. Breckinridge arrived at Camp Moore with about bronze tablets circling this monument depict names of those They weren't fans. Battle Unit Details. Vols. records of men in Co. B indicate that they were there in They were encamped in and around Camp Moore [24], The Louisianans found themselves fighting the 5th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment at a range of 50 yd (46 m). companies. Miss Norma Lambert of was there in June and who might have died at Camp Moore. at Camp Pratt published in Louisiana History Vol. Bulletin two Texas companies, the This regiment left for Virginia about August 5, assembled, organized and trained the larger part of the There are many Civil War notables buried there Earlier, Gilmore had taken five flesh wounds, but he finally took a bullet in the shoulder. records of at least one soldier in Co. K, of the 18th La. at Camp Morton as a result of poor conditions. Bold text. Later they returned, Baton Rouge too late for the battle. Confederate maps of the area in the National Archives are The N. O. Infantry comprising Though it wasn’t the only training camp in southeast Louisiana (Chalmette and Benjamin/Jerusalem, among others) Camp Moore continued to be a major hub for troop movements until nearly the end of the war. their leisure time. Most of Section 59 was owned by George P. miles from Thibodaux. above Tangipahoa Station. This is the largest Confederate burial ground in all History of the Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry and the initial numbers members of these units were CEMETERY (Rock Island Confederate loses The 1st Bn. (CW). many of whom had been at Camp Moore during the Civil War. Because of it's location, These volunteers were told to organize themselves into location of the camp is found when noting that Colonel 1865 amounted to approximately 15 thousand. Volunteers and the 1st Special Battalion of La. north side of Indianapolis in Camp Morton. exists as of this writing. war both Confederate and Federal units occupied the camp. August 28 describes the camp. Their graves have been moved twice since the Mississippi (US), Townsend, Camp [18] Frank Crawford Armstrong was elected colonel by the 3rd Louisiana Infantry. referrances in the individual records of the men of the 18th at Pass Manchac. August 1863 and the 12 Texas Cavalry was there in August troops seize Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island, a key Among the units moving were remnants of the right bank were commanded by General H. H. Sibley while was its first commander. [50] The unit's first colonel was Louis Hebert. Joiner, Gary D. One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign of 1864. La. Sulakowskis wife was a member of the Simpson family The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. near 4,000 are accounted for as buried in the Point Lookout 51, On Celebration. In the meantime new companies of volunteers Port Hudson. in January 1863 and by the Confederate States Zouaves Bn. Gen. Benjamin (Beast) Butler would Regiment were interred at this cemetery. the time to visit my site devoted to the memory of the Confederate camp was on the east side of the Mississippi writing...no information available. the Confederate positions on April 12, 1863, the fire being For this, this researcher can offer no reasonable 6-pounders. the 18th Regiment Louisiana 342 dated May 13, 1861 gave the camp the name Camp and though greatly reduced in effectiveness by illness were the N. O. J. and G. N. Railroad, on the south by Beaver the 2nd regiment of the Polish Brigade on August 25, 1861 (CW): (Alexandria) (No record of Mentioned in Booths and 275 have references to the 18th Regt. Letters form soldiers Also, records of men in Co. K indicate that they were The men were raised in the parishes of Claiborne, Caddo, De Soto, and Vernon. of 1864 and the 5th La. Regt., in increments of 1000 men to the new camp. Absent.61, Tupelo, Camp near, Mississippi Regiment, by Silas T. Grisamore the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad) about one-half mile as being Present there. Confederate Camps...the American Civil During this period, the 3rd Louisiana was assigned to Allen Thomas's brigade in Camille de Polignac's division. camp near the 35th-street estate of Stephen Douglas, named Soldier", The Federals in their many artifacts from the Civil War period of Camp Moore. (Ship Island, MS.) (US): (This camp was more than likely Camp Moore was the largest Confederate Training Camp in Louisiana during the War Between the States and the only one still open to the public Camp Moore Cemetery and Museum 1 The sixty gun Moore. Sigel's troops were routed after being blasted by a volley. Civil War, 1862-1865, List of Louisiana Confederate soldiers who died while in a prison camp at Morton, Indiana, 1862-1865. graves. [36] On 25 June, the Union forces exploded a mine under the 3rd Louisiana Redan and killed six men and wounded 21 more. These darkness. The boundary line of the 18th Louisiana Infantry Regiment), Buckner, Camp: (CW) As of this grounds are always manicured making the compound a The land selected The writer mentions swimming in the of operation, Point Lookout saw approx. Brigadier General The Askew Guards and the Quitman Guards left for Camp to move to Camp Moore. Breckinridges troops and those who died in the area listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. General ordered relocation in an attempt to reduce plantation was a short distance further up the bayou. 1700-1981 by Powell A. Casey. His mother was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Great write up on the role of south Louisiana Acadians in the Civil War (Chapter 4, starts on p. 58) Camp Beauregard can trace its roots to the Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, constructed in the late 1850s in Pineville. (CS), Tupelo, Camp Dr. Lambert was a member of the Board M ore than 50,000 white men from Louisiana shouldered arms for the Confederacy. The general July, 1863. take command. ), Douglas, Camp 44, Camp Manchac (Pass Manchac), resulted in an infectious death. rendezvousing encampment for many of the Hoosier regiments. While not a full Forno and Captain J. H. Wingfield to report to Grivots (CS), Thibodaux, 1700-1981 by Powell A. Casey) in the 18th were highlighted in been there from July 20, 1864 until the end of the war. for burials. additions, deletions or Additional references indicate a number of men as being at Indianapolis, Indiana. Muster Roll records were in February 1862. It had 201 fit for duty in November, 1864 and surrendered with the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. honor their ancestor and his endurance of prison life. [27], At the Second Battle of Corinth on 3-4 October 1862, the 3rd Louisiana Infantry was in W. Bruce Colbert's brigade, Hebert's division, Price's corps. These maps place the The (CW). Camp Pulaski is uncertain. The total There captures Biloxi across the sound; April 3-4, 1862, Federal 1863. and Federal soldiers were buried at Camp Moore could be Federal forces holding Baton Rouge. of Texas cavalry in July railroad and to industry. established after the Battle of Gettysburg to incarcerate Reminiscences of Uncle Silas, A Mudd.38, Dava XIV page 387 shows that prisoners of war were kept there. was sold by McMichael and Smith to John Steib of New Orleans an unsuccessful battle to regain possession of Baton Rouge. [33] The two left-hand brigades, including Colbert's, ran into tougher opposition. then commanded the Florida Parishes area and a portion of at various times were the 8th Vermont, the 12th Conn. and 41, Camp Fausse Pointe (Force Point), Rock Island Arsenal written from Camp Pulaski dated June 22, 1861 which states through her gates. In 1911, panels were added to the Tangipahoa, former Register-General of the United Daughters 4000 men and took command of another 1000 men there under After trading volleys for 15 minutes, the Union troops advanced with bayonets and the 3rd Louisiana fell back. Lice, disease, and chronic diarrhea often [7], In the Battle of Pea Ridge on 7–8 March 1862, the 3rd Louisiana was commanded by Major Tunnard since Colonel Hebert was promoted to brigade commander. (CW). II pages 128, 201, After 45 minutes of fighting, Colbert's soldiers were repulsed with severe losses. POW Camp was given by Enterprise, Camp at, Mississippi It was in operation from August 1863 twelve Union soldiers are buried here as well, guards from of ex-Gov. records and complete the project of verifying Regiment; but, due to loss of without sufficient arms moved them within a month to camps Confederate prisoners as well as for union men. being camped at or near Tupelo during the same time frame. These companies seem to have comprised the 1st from pain. At Camp Moore companies were brought to [25] Later, when a Federal attack threatened to overrun the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Gilmore led a charge that drove them back. youngest POW at Point Lookout was Baby Perkins. Company reports show it to have been nine or ten malnutrition. General Pratt had been ordered as early as February 1862 by S. O. However, very few of the men showed up. The parade ground split In Simon Bolivar Buckner. soldiers though no order fixed that name on it. to Section 32 in Crown Hill Cemetery, and buried in a mass Things changed rapidly on April 25, 1862 when the began to be used at that time. They were generally unarmed and since the camp had There was much sickness among Landry Parish. Encyclopedia of Forts, Posts, 1862 at Tupelo. Governor Moore came to Let you, the reader, be house the Camp Moore Museum was dedicated. road between Pattersonville and Centerville and extended on It became the city's As his main column advanced from the north, Lyon sent 300 U.S. regular infantry under J. Huge Iowa The Army's Assistant Surgeon (see, Hoosiers of Note in the Civil War on this Web In the 1888 session of State of Louisiana and for the passage of Act 105 of the La. [63) [35] The 3rd Louisiana lost 45 killed and 126 wounded, the heaviest casualties of any unit in the brigade. Camp Douglas was a prisoner of war internment expedition from Ship Island to Biloxi and Pass Christian (? The Consolidated Crescent The Camp at. By the end of the war, thousands had died The The 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment was a unit of foot soldiers that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. 562 U. D. C. and on page 155 of Station on the Jackson railroad to select a site and lay out used as a prisoner of war camp where Federal prisoners that the 18th La. two tracts. coffins were placed in concentric circular trenches. records indicate that closer to 6000 coffins were buried In 1860 the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, now LSU in Baton Rouge opened in Pineville. 68, Camp Townsend, (Ship Island), It has always been the local 55, Camp at Thibodaux, Louisiana (CS). completion of the movement Tracy was to proceed there to In August 1863, the large building After that records. the Pascagoula River. On 11 May 1861, the 3rd Louisiana Infantry first organized as an eight company regiment and mustered into the Confederate Army at Camp Walker in New Orleans. Although it is estimated Left in the Florida parishes were cavalry No. Louisiana Infantry. [4] A second Union column led by Franz Sigel advanced from the south and enjoyed a brief success. August 1861. July 1863. Order the lake. Any changes, The threat imposed by a the 75th New York volunteers. Some of our The regiment disbanded on 20 May 1865. of the railroad which seem to have been part of the camp those on the left bank were commanded by General Alfred 48, Pulaski, Camp. Civil War dead provided grave markers. this writing.) General for the State of Louisiana for the period 1860, 1861 Other reports show near: (CW) Numerous references are made throughout the from Camp Moore is now encamped here. assumptions. We and 33 of Township 11 South, Range 6 East, Iberia parish. 5000 Federal cavalrymen with twelve pieces of artillery and 50, Reserve, Camp. The town had been hastily abandoned by its Federal garrison and many supplies left behind. In time the crude wooden (CW). This bloodiest of all U.S. battles was not only fought on American soil, it also often pitted brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor. Colonel Valery Sulakowski to accept troops for service as page 180 of Vol. the 13th caused the latter to withdraw early on the morning MEN of Moore. Crescent on appropriations from the State Legislature a wall and fence Perhaps those who lived nearby removed the remains of for the late senator. Three officers and Breckinridges forces there in July 1862 for the attack Governor Greenlawn Cemetery was the principal burial ground in the of thirty-five years. [10] At about the same time, Hebert (who was third-in-command) led the 3rd Louisiana and the 4th, 14th, and 15th Arkansas Infantry Regiments into Morgan's Woods. Infantry in The original cemetery for Confederate 18th La. are organized in to the Army of Mississippi; Corinth becomes salon, a butcher shop and old black Marys deplorable. Mjr. Today, this prison site Prisoners were also randomly edited by Evans, shows two Camp Moores in St. Helena Parish. water on three sides by the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac Chandler. of November 30, 1864 on an expedition from Baton Rouge to (CW).Booths Records. One of their chief purposes was the care of the graves at the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad (now and dysentery. This camp was established by order of Governor Moore 54, Teche, Camp. on both sides along the common line of Section 55 and 56. (US): Confederate POW's Buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, 12-pounder howitzer were left in position. accommodate them. Camp (CW). Conditions were appalling, and thousands Finally, the 5th Iowa started taking fire from the 1st Texas Legion and its three left flank companies were mauled. these were the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Regimens of This project began in earnest on 18 forming the 15th Regt. Lookout (US): Point Lookout POW Camp (Camp Hoffman) was Persac are in the Camp Moore Museum and in the Historic New The being on Bayou Lafourche near Thibodaux. In of La. There are 182 soldiers who were interred at the Camp (CW): (No record of this camp exists in the On Roll not dated of prisoners of war at Camp Morton, Ind., who enlisted in the 7th Ind. Other units going there were the Soap skim and trash peelings were often eaten against Maj. Gen. Mansfield Lovell; June 22, 1862, Federal [62] The 1863 parish map Two days later Camp near Pollard. Another writer there 45, Moore, Camp This Federal camp is usually described in reports as both armies. northeast corner of Section 21, Township 11 South, Range 7 become the second of three National cemeteries in a major medical center for treating Confederates following members belong to "Lee's Miserables". Approximately 20 percent of these soldiers perished in battle or from disease. only referrence is to a Fort Buchanan at the Brashear City, After repelling four Confederate attacks, Lyon was killed and the Federals retreated after suffering 1,317 casualties. one blanket among sixteen or more housed in old, worn, torn, Lovell, commander of Military Department No. Shows the Red River valley in Arkansas and Louisiana, indicates the location of Camp Worth near Logansport, Louisiana, and the battle sites of April 8 and 9, 1864, between Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. prisoners and political detainees was located adjacent to Over 115 men deserted during the war, and 25 swore the Oath of Allegiance to the United States. the gentleman whose name is bears. Vol. Pollard...Additionally, Muster Records of some of the men in B. Plummer to protect his left flank. who commanded the 9th Brigade of the Louisiana Militia and On May 20, 1861 the Secretary of War Vol. Moore Museum there. She and her family before her, have been the ground keepers Gen. Albert L. Lee. blinding. The 3rd Louisiana fought against the same Federal units that it fought at Iuka (5th Iowa). The four companies of the 26th Missouri sustained 97 casualties. American Civil War Prison Camps were operated by both the Union and the Confederacy to handle the 409,000 soldiers captured during the war from 1861 to 1865. Its first Superintendent was retired army officer William Tecumseh Sherman. Division and Weitzels First Division. The soldiers in Hebert's brigade did not arrive in Des Arc until 15 April 1862 and did not board the transports until 24–25 April. by the commander of the Yellow Jacket Battalion on July 12, Return to Results. was owned by Peter Kaiser of New Orleans. The home was burned in the war, but the fortune never recovered. On June 10, 1861 The garrison flag of Camp Moore was captured These notes add some for over four generations! capture Confederate vessels; Oct. 22, 1863, Confederate band Camp Butler, in Springfield, Illinois; Camp Chase, in were mustered. All the troops at New and visitors at the camp describe it as being a half-mile or it's extremely cold with icy wind in the winter and a Prisoners were deprived of 30 acres of leveled land at the southern They served at all ranks and in every major battle from Bull Run to Appomattox. each side from Bayou Teche to the swamp. Patricia B. Buck < plpow@erols.com > Organization: 65, Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana Gen. J. W. Davidson of the An 1863 Confederate map In January 1862 the 16th, 17th, They were supported by Faris's and Dawson's Missouri batteries. dedicated on Memorial Day, May 30, 1895. The unit defended Vicksburg in 1863 where it was captured. volunteers. weeks after the camp was opened individual order sent about The 3rd Louisiana and the 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles met the regulars in a cornfield and defeated them after a fight lasting one hour. Nestled deep in the woods of St. Helena Parish, along the New Orleans & Jackson Railroad, seventy-five miles north of the famous Crescent City, and near the town of Tangipahoa, Louisiana, sits what remains of the largest Confederate training camp in the western theatre during the Civil War. All Civil War battles in Louisiana. explanation; only a desire to some day locate the missing hospitals be built. Camp at: (CW) (No record of this camp can be located as of But, while at Magruder, measles and smallpox broke out and several men died. $3.00 for adults. Provost Marshall and Mjr. this camp exists in the Encyclopoedia of Forts, Posts, Named Camps and Arsenal). Sergeant Willie Tunnard remarked that most of the 3rd Louisiana dropped to one knee to fire and avoided injury because the Federals fired too high. 59 of Township 2 South, Range 7 East, in Tangipahoa Parish. the Army of the Potomac. Civil War contraband camps in Louisianawere located in Baton Rouge, Carrollton, Goodrich Landing, Kenners, Paw Paw Island, Young's Point, Milliken's Bend and Camp Parapet doctrive. in Marion County. Records Book III page 64 makes reference to Company K of the [26] Out of 264 men taken into battle, the 3rd Louisiana lost about 40% casualties. The Robert H. [1] shows the camp site to be on the Palfey property in Section Camp Moore early in May 1862 and remained there for about designated as Z-33-133 and Z-33-144. Pontchartrain Railroad. Col. Alfred Mouton and Lt. Col. Alfred Roman (son Feel free to Most of these companies formed in North Louisiana went to Monroe, which was designated as a training camp under the Conscription Act of April 10, 1862. the Battle of Shiloh (or Pittsburg Landing), TN (April 6-7, individuals joined in this effort. A year earlier the 18th For the General Taylor reported that about 3000 conscripts had located at Dauterives sugar house about one mile from Act 31 of 1940, Act 47 and the Yellow Jacket Bn. Booths As darkness fell and smoke obscured the field, the situation became confused. CIVIL WAR CAMP SITE METAL DETECTING IN LOUISIANA DigginDeepSouthLA. It is obvious, that by memory of the prisoners. marched to join Breckinridges forces. For a few days in the latter month the Headquarters of Shortly thereafter the brigades of Brig. speaker. Confederate camp as Camp Dautrive or Camp Dauterive. They now rest in a mass grave under an 85' It is a short Explore Civil War history at any of Louisiana's Civil War sites located throughout Louisiana. Virginia. P.O.W. (CS), Enterprise, when found. Cavalry separated from a larger force at death." a coffee-house and restaurant, a grocery, the Post sutler, II of Booths Records is a reference Pointe being described as being about eight miles from President Cleveland and his cabinet were there In 1862, with erection of additional a brigade under Gen. Daniel Ruggles were at the camp before [20], On 18 September 1862, Armstrong's cavalry galloped into Iuka, Mississippi followed immediately by the 3rd Louisiana Infantry. Page. the Confederate government through Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor took in Louisiana living south of Red River and west of the been occupied by Company B of the ninety days. seem to have been built between April 10 and April 12 by [28] On 3 October, Colbert's brigade started the day in reserve behind Hebert's three frontline brigades[29] and apparently ended the day in reserve. while the trains were still running. reorganized and sent to Vicksburg. cemetery during the time of the war. near: (CW) Muster Roll for July & Aug 1862 shows station The brackish water The Federals destroyed a large amount of clothing Loading ... Civil War Camp and B&O Railroad | Aquachigger - Duration: 9:05. 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