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31st Infantry. Miles' Legion (sometimes called the 32nd Infantry) 33rd Infantry (short-lived merger of 10th and 12th Infantry Battalions) 1st (Dreux's/Rightor's) Battalion, Infantry. 1st (Wheat's) Special Battalion, Infantry (Louisiana Tigers) 3rd Battalion, Infantry (became the 15th Infantry) 4th Battalion, Infantry.
Iberia Parish ( French: Paroisse de l'Ibérie, Spanish: Parroquia de Iberia) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 69,929; [1] the parish seat is New Iberia. [2] The parish was formed in 1868 during the Reconstruction era and named for the Iberian Peninsula.
Iberia: 00001229 Alice C Plantation House: October 24, 2000: Franklin: St. Mary: 96001263 Allendale Plantation Historic District: November 1, 1996: Port Allen: West Baton Rouge: Founded by Henry Watkins Allen and it was burned to the ground by during the American Civil War. The plantation was rebuilt after 1880 by another owner.
Avery Island (historically French: Île Petite Anse) is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce. Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, it is about three miles (4.8 km) inland from Vermilion Bay, which opens onto the Gulf of Mexico. A small human population lives on the island.
The Battle of Calcasieu Pass was a minor skirmish fought on May 6, 1864, at the mouth of the Calcasieu River in southwestern Louisiana, during the American Civil War. [1] [2] [3] The engagement was between the forces of Confederate Col. W. H. Griffin and Union Lieutenants Benjamin Loring and C. W. Lamson. In the battle, Confederates fought and ...
Ayres, Thomas, Dark and Bloody Ground : The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana, Cooper Square Press, 2001. Parrish, T. Michael, Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie, University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction : Personal experiences of the late war, Time-Life Books, 1983.
Attakapas Parish, a former parish ( county) in southern Louisiana, was one of the twelve parishes in the Territory of Orleans, newly defined by the United States federal government following its Louisiana Purchase in 1803. At its core was the Poste des Attakapas trading post, which developed as the current city of St. Martinville.
July 28, 1983. Shadows-on-the-Teche is an American 3,750 square feet (348 m 2) historic house, garden, and cemetery. Formerly a working sugar cane plantation with enslaved labor, it is located in New Iberia, Louisiana, United States. Built in 1834 for planter, David Weeks (1786–1834) and his wife Mary Conrad Weeks (1797–1863).