A.D. Battle, Rapides Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson 

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana Nashville and 
Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company 1890    

A.D. BATTLE  
A.D. Battle, editor of the Daily Times, was born at Powelton, Ga., January 6, 1829.  
His parents moved thither from North Carolina about 1820, and thirteen years later 
settled in Hinds County, Miss., where they resided until 1840, when the family moved 
to Shreveport, La. Col Battle attended school there for a short time, and in 1843 
entered Centre College, Danville, Ky. On returning to Shreveport in 1846, he entered 
the office of the Caddo Gazette, as assistant editor, then owned by H. J. G. Battle.  
In 1853 he married Miss Mary J. Parsons, and buying an interest in the Oakland plantation, 
settled there. In 1859 he returned to Shreveport and entered the cotton trade; was 
elected assessor and collector of the city, and in 1860 he rented the home of Rev. J. 
F. Ford, opposite the Presbyterian Church, and established the Battle Home. In April, 
1861, Mrs. Battle died, and Mr. Battle entered the Red River Rangers, as lieutenant, 
under Capt. Nutt, and was captured with the command at Arkansas Post, and brought to 
Ohio; thence to Fort Delaware, and held prisoner until the exchange at City Point Va., 
in May 1863. On returning to Shreveport he assumed his position with that part of the 
command who escaped capture, but shortly after resigned. He was appointed C. S. clerk 
of the district court of the C. S., which position he held until the end of the 
Confederacy. In 1869 he took charge of the Southwestern, and a little after established 
the Shreveport Times.  In 1882 he was elected senator for Caddo, and in 1884 was appointed 
parish assessor. A reference to the general history of Caddo and of Shreveport will 
point out, more particularly, his connection with public affairs. In 1867 he married 
Miss Carrie boney, a daughter of William G. Boney, present clerk of the district court, 
and to this marriage four children were given, of whom two reside in Shreveport and two 
at Alexandria. Mrs. B. A. Holmes, of Los Angeles, Cal. And William Battle, now of 
Shreveport, are children of the first marriage. In September, 1890 the family moved to 
Alexandria, where Mr. Battle was appointed editor of the newly established Daily Times.   

H. J. G. Battle was colonel of militia prior to the war and like his brother, was engaged 
in newspaper work, until his death in 1872.