Hunter Rifles, East Feliciana Parish, La.
Civil War Company Organized at Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, La.
Prepared and submitted by Claude B. Slaton, Baker, La.

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The following appeared in the newspaper The Watchman, Clinton, La.,
June 9, 1967, p. 4:

HUNTER RIFLES APPEAR IN CLINTON PAPER IN 1861

The articles below were secured from Mrs. Elise Walker Appleby.
She got them from her mother's scrapbook; they appeared in the
Clinton paper 1861, which was either Feliciana Democrat or East
Feliciana Patriot.

Old Roster Found

When in Howell, Indiana, last month Mr. John A. White, Jr., found
the original roster of the Hunter Rifles in the possession of Mrs.
Julia Covert. He obtained a copy which appears below.

The Hunter Rifles left Clinton April 30, 1861. It was the first
company to leave the parish. As the roster will show, it has 153
men, too many to make up one company. It was sworn into the state
service on the levee in New Orleans the next morning after it left
here, May 1, 1861. It went into camp at the Metairie race course
where it was divided into two companies, A and B.

The company was then sent up to Camp Moore, Louisiana, where it was
attached to and helped to make up the 4th Regiment of Louisiana
Volunteer Infantry, Robert I. Barrow, Colonel; H. W. Allen, Lieutenant,
and S. E. Hunter, Major.

In the division of the company each man was allowed to join the one
of his choice, each company to have the same number of men. A number
of others had come on and joined the command by this time, which made
some ninety men each.

The election of Capt. Hunter as Major of the regiment made a vacancy
in the original company, which was re-organized and called Company A,
Hunter Rifles, then E. J. Pullen was elected Captain; G. A. Neafus,
First Lieutenant; N. B. Barfield, Second Lieutenant; and H. Marston,
Jr., Third Lieutenant.

John T. Hillard was elected Captain of Company B, Hunter Rifles;
J. J. Adams, First Lieutenant; E. C. Holmes, Second Lieutenant, and
E. F. Hueston, Third Lieutenant.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS

Captain--S. Eugene Hunter
First Lieutenant--G. A. Neafus
Second Lieutenant--E. J. Pullen

PRIVATES

John Atkins
W. J. Albritten
J. J. Adams
H. O. Achord
Clarence Bell
J. W. Brown
Hugh Brashier
John J. Benton
J. H. Burns
N. B. Barfield
Monroe M. Currie
W. J. Chapman
R. E. Corcoran
C. R. Cornelius
Peter Z. Colson
A. V. D. Covert
B. E. Chaney
W. P. Carter
T. H. Corcoran
J. J. Croft
W. D. Carr
J. E. Chaney
Wm. B. Carter
W. H. Cook
J. S. Conrad
W. J. Crane
L. R. Chaney
A. A. Croft
J. F. Dupriest
T. H. D'Armond
J. D. Dutart
Timothy Dawdry
B. S. Daniels
John D'Armond
M. B. Davis
J. M. Doyle
John Delaney
W. Davis
A. T. Fiester
Henry Fiester
G. A. Green
C. O. Gayle
Jacob Guth
P. A. Green
F. Gumbel
H. Hobgood
T. M. Hudson
B. F. Hays
W. H. Heatherington
Meyer Hiltner
F. J. Haynes
Washington Hoggart
Robt. Hays
E. G. Hays
E. F. Hueston
H. Hueston
R. C. Hough
C. B. Harrell
Henry Herschler
G. M. Harrell
E. C. Holmes
Jas. T. Heckler
B. D. Irwin
O. P. Jelks
D. D. Jackson
Wm. Jackson
C. P. Jarrett
W. B. Jones
Lucas Kent
T. G. Keller
John Knox
W. A. Knox
E. Kornbacher
Morris Kieffer
J. G. Kilbourne
T. P. Kane
James Kahoe
O. P. Langworthy
E. A. Lemon
W. D. Lea
A. P. Lecoq
T. D. Lea
J. R. Montgomery
C. W. Mulkey
J. Millican
T. C. Millican
W. W. Millican
Abe Meyer
H. Marston, Jr.
John A. Morgan
S. W. McCoy
J. McCombs
S. G. McKneely
J. A. McKneely
W. R. McAdams
M. V. McKie
J. E. Nash
Edmond Neal
W. L. Neyland
Jas. N. Oliver
L. M. Powell
R. D. Patrick
W. H. Pipes
B. F. Perry
David Pratt
W. M. Perry
T. Pinkney
J. E. Ransom
Frank M. Rivers
C. B. Rogillio
L. W. Rogers
H. S. Rogillio
Eugene Rich
J. P. Rogers
L. T. Rheams
C. P. Ratcliffe
C. A. Rist
H. Rist
John Richert
Thos. W. Skipwith
C. J. Spankman
W. S. Seymour
W. M. Stone
Jas. E. Story
H. C. Smith
W. A. Steadman
T. J. Scott
W. C. Shropshire
H. N. Sherburne
E. Stevens
L. Stewart
E. L. Sampson
D. C. Thompson
N. W. Tate
T. C. W. Taylor
Jas. E. Twiggs
Wm. E. Trask
W. A. Thompson
B. D. Viers
John W. Viers
J. Whitehead
John A. White, Jr.
J. D. Worsham
D. J. Wedge
T. E. Warner
J. B. Wall
S. B. Williams
S. J. Worthy
R. K. Zugg