CONFEDERATE LOUISIANA TROOPS
19th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry
- Overview:
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19th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in October, 1861, at Camp Moore,
Louisiana. The men were raised in the parishes of Claiborne, Caddo, De Soto, and Vernon. It
fought in the Battle of Shiloh,
served in Mississippi, then was assigned to D.W. Adams' and Gibson's Brigade, Army of
Tennessee. The regiment participated in the many campaigns of the army from Chickamauga to Atlanta, endured Hood's winter operations
in Tennessee, and ended the war defending Mobile. It lost more than forty-five percent of the 350
engaged at Chickamauga, totalled 270 men and 157 arms in December, 1863, and during the
Atlanta Campaign, May 14-28, reported 4 killed and 40 wounded. It had 201 fit for duty in
November, 1864 and surrendered with the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East
Louisiana. The field officers were Colonels Benjamin L. Hodge, R.W. Turner, and Wesley P.
Winans; Lieutenant Colonels Loudon Butler, James M. Hollingsworth, and Hyder A. Kennedy;
and Majors Camp Flournoy and Winfrey B. Scott.
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