CONFEDERATE LOUISIANA TROOPS
Landry's Company, Louisiana Artillery (Donaldsonville Artillery)
- Overview:
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Donaldsonville Light Artillery was organized during the late summer of 1861 in Ascension
Parish, Louisiana. It was soon ordered to Virginia and after serving under Longstreet was
assigned to C. Richardson's Battalion of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia. The unit fought
with the army from Williamsburg
to Cold Harbor, then was active
in the Petersburg siege and the
Appomattox Campaign. The
company lost 1 killed and 3 wounded at Gaines' Mill and Frayser's Farm, had 1
killed and 6 wounded at Fredericksburg, and 2 wounded out of the
114 engaged at Gettysburg. It
totalled 90 men in April, 1864, and surrendered with 4 officers, 64 men, and 4 servants. Captains
Victor Maurin and R. Prosper Landry were in command.
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