Tag: Confederate Veterans
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The Ouachita/Key House: Monroe’s Confederate Hospital?
The Ouachita Hotel, was located where the park is now at the corner of 3rd and DeSiard. It was built in 1861 by Sloan and Mason. In 1890, F.G. Key…
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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…
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Judge William Wood Farmer, Jr.: Lawyer, Legislator, Civil War Captain and Respected Judge of Ouachita Parish
I wrote this article back in April, 2011 for Louisiana Road Trips Magazine. William Mills Farmer was born March 29, 1840 in Union Parish, the only son of William…
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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…
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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…
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Unknown Mealy Photo Identified!
The second Mealy photo I won, just felt SO familiar! When I got to work Monday morning, I began thumbing through my transcription of the Monroe Evening News World’s Fair…
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1865 Letter from Bernard H. Dinkgrave to James Muse Dabbs
https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-orv%3A84 This letter was also included in the Dabbs collection. it is a letter written by Bernard Dinkgrave from a hospital in Alexandria. If you want to read a transcript…
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Confederate Grave Marker in the Old City Cemetery
I have posted a similar one in the past, but this one is a little different. You can see a row of homes in the background. By the way, there…
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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…
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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…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 