CONFEDERATE LOUISIANA TROOPS
1st Regiment, Louisiana Heavy Artillery (Regulars)
- Overview:
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1st Regular Artillery Regiment was organized during the spring of 1861 with men from
New Orleans and the surrounding area. The unit contained ten companies, but there were a
number of consolidations during the war, and in 1865 it appears that only four remained. A heavy
artillery unit, it served at Forts Jackson and St. Phillip at New Orleans, then was part of the river
batteries at Vicksburg. Here it
was captured on July 4, 1863. After being exchanged and reorganized, it was stationed at Mobile
and saw action at Fort Gaines, Fort Morgan, and Spanish Fort. On May 4, 1865, the unit
surrendered with the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. The field officers
were Colonels Johnson K. Duncan, C.A. Fuller, and Paul O. Hebert; Lieutenant Colonel Daniel
Beltzhoover; and Majors James B. Anderson, W.C. Capers, Henry A. Clinch, and Raymond
Montaigne.
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