CONFEDERATE LOUISIANA TROOPS
7th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry
- Overview:
-
7th Infantry Regiment [also called the Pelican Regiment] was organized in May, 1861, and
entered Confederate service at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in June. The men were from New
Orleans, Baton Rouge, Donaldsonville, and Livingstone. Ordered to Virginia with more than 850
men, the unit served under General Early at First Manassas. Later it was brigaded under R.
Taylor, Hays, and York. It was prominent in Jackson's Valley Campaign and on many battlefields
of the Army of Northern Virginia. The 7th served from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, then was involved in Early's
operations in the Shenandoah Valley and the Appomattox Campaign. It took 827 men to
First Manassas, had 132 disabled
at Cross Keys and Port Republic, and lost 68 during the Seven
Days' Battles and 69 in the Maryland Campaign. The unit sustained 80 casualties at Chancellorsville and 24 at Second Winchester, lost twenty-four
percent of the 235 engaged at Gettysburg, and had 180 captured at Rappahannock Station. It
surrendered with no officers and 42 men. The field officers were Colonels Harry T. Hays and
Davidson B. Penn, Lieutenant Colonels Charles DeChoiseul and Thomas M. Terry, and Major J.
Moore Wilson.
- Soldiers:
- View Battle Unit's Soldiers ยป
