Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Confederate Veterans

  • Ouachita Parish Confederate Pensioners in 1918

    A couple of weeks ago, I went to an estate sale. Digging through the books for sale, I found this little booklet called “State of Louisiana, Board of Pension Commissioners…

  • UCV Marker Found

    Over the Christmas break, I had a chance to wander the Old City Cemetery, looking for those markers the UCV placed to mark the graves of unmarked Confederate veterans back…

  • The Monroe Confederate Reunion of 1913

    Back in 2018, I made a post about the above photo. You really can’t make out who anyone in the photo is, because it is scanned so small. The photo…

  • Elderly Former Enslaved Man Passes Away

    Any mention of an enslaved person gets my attention, since so few of their stories remain. On the front page of the Southern Broadcast, Saturday, January 9, 1937, was the…

  • Membership List of the United Confederate Veterans

    Here is the preliminary list of members of the United Confederate Veterans, Henry W. Allen Camp, Monroe, LA. I found the membership lists at LSU. I also used the 1892…

  • I Broke a Code Tuesday

    Bear with me as I explain this. Ever since I got the list of Monroe UCV members, I’ve been furiously researching them. Not just the founding members. All of them.…

  • A New Treasure

    A little over a month ago, a box was donated to Special Collections full of the papers of Judge Americanus Willis, who was here from the late 1800’s to the…

  • A Pioneer’s Tale

    As told by Daniel Armand Breard, Sr. to the News-Star, December 4, 1925, Page 5. BREARD HAS SEEN CITY GROW FROM VILLAGE OF 350Octogenarian Tells of Early Days in Ouachita…

  • A Great Ouachita Parish Genealogy Resource

    Many genealogy societies are beginning to place their magazines online. When you are doing genealogy research, you may not think about genealogy society newsletters and magazines. They are great research…

  • 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…