Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Civil War

  • Natchez Catholic Sisters Come to Help in Monroe

    Another book I have found on the Internet Archives site is a book called, “Angels of the Battlefield: A history of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late…

  • The Red Knights: An Unknown Confederate Unit

    While browsing along the other day, I stumbled across this little document found in the Boston Anthenaum. It has no date on it, but it clearly was printed during the…

  • A Yankee Buried by Confederate Veterans

    One of the sweetest stories I have found, concerns the burial of a Union veteran handled by the Henry W. Allen Camp of United Confederate Veterans.             Fifteen or so…

  • A Tantalizing Civil War Map

    I was exploring the National Archives online catalog, when I found some Confederate maps they have in their collection. One in particular intrigued me: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/171031936 A big problem is that…

  • Rare letters from a Former Monroe Mayor to his Brother.

    This letter comes from the collection of the Tennessee State Library. It is a two page letter from Arthur Hambleton Harris to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville. The…

  • Monroe Federal Raids During the Civil War.

    To go along with yesterday’s post, I though I would compile some of the info I found in that book and talk about the three raids in Monroe. The first…

  • Northeast Louisiana During the Civil War

    Google books is a beautiful thing! I found this book: https://www.google.com/books/edition/British_and_American_Claims/pT9HAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Tuesday night and I am fascinated by it! Basically, it is full of testimony of people living in Northeast…

  • Civil War Sympathies of Northeast Louisiana

    This interesting paper talks about the secession convention and the units that served from the N.E. parishes. It takes the interesting view that Ouachita and Caldwell parishes were opposed to…