He was educated in Union Parish, and at the age of seventeen years, or in 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate service, becoming a member of Company C, Nineteenth Louisiana Volunteer infantry, known as the Stars of Equality." His command was assigned to the Army of Tennessee and was in the engagements of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, Mississippi, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. Then with Hood in the engagements at Franklin and Nashville he saw some hard service. Following this he was at home on ninety days' furlough, during which time news reached him of Lee's surrender.
In 1872 settled on a plantation in Union Parish, Louisiana, which then consisted of 1,000 acres of forest land. He has always took an active interest in local public affairs and was a Representative from Union Parish in the state legislature, one of the invincible forty-two who stood firm to uphold the honor of his State against the corrupting influence of the Louisiana State Lottery.
Settled Comanche, Texas 1892
In 1872 settled on a plantation in Union Parish, Louisiana, which then consisted of 1,000 acres of forest land. He has always took an active interest in local public affairs and was a Representative from Union Parish in the state legislature, one of the invincible forty-two who stood firm to uphold the honor of his State against the corrupting influence of the Louisiana State Lottery.
Settled Comanche, Texas 1892
He was educated in Union Parish, and at the age of seventeen years, or in 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate service, becoming a member of Company C, Nineteenth Louisiana Volunteer infantry, known as the Stars of Equality." His command was assigned to the Army of Tennessee and was in the engagements of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, Mississippi, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. Then with Hood in the engagements at Franklin and Nashville he saw some hard service. Following this he was at home on ninety days' furlough, during which time news reached him of Lee's surrender.
In 1872 settled on a plantation in Union Parish, Louisiana, which then consisted of 1,000 acres of forest land. He has always took an active interest in local public affairs and was a Representative from Union Parish in the state legislature, one of the invincible forty-two who stood firm to uphold the honor of his State against the corrupting influence of the Louisiana State Lottery.
Settled Comanche, Texas 1892
In 1872 settled on a plantation in Union Parish, Louisiana, which then consisted of 1,000 acres of forest land. He has always took an active interest in local public affairs and was a Representative from Union Parish in the state legislature, one of the invincible forty-two who stood firm to uphold the honor of his State against the corrupting influence of the Louisiana State Lottery.
Settled Comanche, Texas 1892
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