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Confederate Returns from 24th Louisiana Crescent Regiment
Confederate Returns from 24th Louisiana Crescent Regiment
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Confederate Returns
various, ca. 1862
Confederate Returns from 24th Louisiana Crescent Regiment
Archive
A collection of 14 Confederate documents: one manifest and 12 returns of clothing, all for soldiers in the Crescent Consolidated Regiment. Condition ranges from fair to very good.

Two items warrant special attention:

1. Manuscript document signed, one page, 8" x 12", [n.p.], June 1862. An accounting of stores from the regiment listing paper, axes, spades, "spider lids," socks, shoes, etc. turned over by Assistant Quartermaster R. D. Gribble to Captain M. McDougall of Co. I, Crescent Regiment, from June 18, 1862 - July 5, 1862. The regiment disbanded on June 5, 1862, shortly after the Battle of Shiloh. Light staining staining throughout and a bit of loss at bottom margin, otherwise very good.

2. Partly-printed document signed, 12" x 7.5", [n.p., n.d.], a clothing manifest for four Louisiana soldiers from Company G, with enlistment date and articles of clothing given them, signed by the distributing officer and soldier. Three of the four soldiers mentioned are notable: J.B. Dickerson and Simpson Pierce were wounded in action and G. W. Stone was killed in action, all at Mansfield.

Together with 12 more returns for soldiers of the 24th Louisiana, totaling 13 pieces. We welcome viewing of this lot, please refer our terms for lots of five or more items.

The 24th Louisiana State Militia regiment transferred to Confederate service in New Orleans on March 6, 1862, for ninety days with 945 men. The regiment went immediately to Corinth, Mississippi, to reinforce General Pierre G.T. Beauregard's army. On April 6, the regiment played an important role in the capture of two Federal divisions at the Hornet's Nest during the Battle of Shiloh. The next day, the men supported the 5th Company, Washington Artillery, and prevented the enemy from capturing three of the battery's guns. In the battle, 23 of the regiment's men were killed, 84 were wounded, and 20 were missing. Retreating with the army to Corinth, the regiment was disbanded on June 3 by General Braxton Bragg at the expiration of its enlistment. Most of the men went into the 18th Louisiana Regiment. On September 17, the War Department reorganized the regiment and ordered it to report to General Richard Taylor in South Louisiana. The reorganization occurred at New Iberia on October 16, when Colonel McPheeters recalled the men serving with the 18th Louisiana. On October 27, the regiment fought in the Battle of Labadieville and retreated with the army to Bayou Teche, where it joined Taylor at Fort Bisland. The men moved to Avery Island on December 19. The regiment went to Butte à la Rose on January 11, 1863. On February 16, Companies F, G, and H, while on picket on Grand River, fired on and drove off the enemy steamer Grey Cloud. The regiment returned to Bisland on April 7 and fought in the battle there on April 12 and 13. Retreating with Taylor's army through Opelousas and Alexandria to Natchitoches, the regiment returned to South Louisiana in June. The men garrisoned Brashear City in June and July while the army conducted operations on Bayou Lafourche. During the next three months, the regiment marched with General Alfred Mouton's brigade back and forth across South Louisiana. On November 3, the 11th and 12th [Confederate Guards Response] Louisiana infantry battalions were added to the regiment at Simmsport to form the Consolidated Crescent Regiment. The regiment played a major role in the Battle of Mansfield, April 8. In the attack on the enemy, more than 175 of the regiment's men were killed or wounded; and the regiment became the only Louisiana regiment to lose all three field officers in one battle. The next day, April 9, at the Battle of Pleasant Hill, the regiment saw only limited fighting since its division constituted the army's reserve force. Pursuing Banks' army back down the Red River, the regiment participated in the Battle of Yellow Bayou, May 18. Portions, if not all, of the regiment supported the 2nd Louisiana Battery in a skirmish with enemy gunboats on the Atchafalaya north of Simmsport on June 8. When the army marched through North Louisiana into Southern Arkansas in the fall, the regiment remained at Alexandria and then marched to Shreveport. After several months in garrison at Shreveport, the regiment returned to Alexandria. The brigade rejoined the regiment there in January 1865, and occupied camps in the vicinity until spring. In May, the brigade marched to Mansfield; it disbanded there on May 19, prior to the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department.

This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.

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