THE RAPIDES INVINCIBLES; Rapides, Louisiana
Submitted by N. Wayne Cosby
Date: Aug 2000
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I who was born by the battlefields,
Cannot escape a sorrow that dwells,
A valor that lingers,
A hope that spoke on lips now still.
Come from the four winds, oh breath,
And breathe upon these Southern slain,
That they may live.

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P. O. Box 372
Watson, LA  70786
Bedford@gs.verio.net

Sources:  Compiled Service Records - 8th Louisiana Infantry, Louisiana State
Archives; Record Rolls of 8th Louisiana Infantry - LHA Collection,
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Company I - 8th Louisiana Infantry
The Rapides Invincibles - Rapides Parish

Lee Crandall - Captain
Henry Huie - 1st Lieutenant
Dr. A. W. Davis - 2nd Lieutenant
William Kyle Johnson - Jr. 2nd Lieutenant

Reuben Stark Jackson - 1st Sergeant
George Waters Stafford - 2nd Sergeant
William M. McCormick - 3rd Sergeant
William Alexander Stewart - 4th Sgt.
Thomas McCarty - 5th Sergeant
Michael Legras - 1st Corporal
Hyrcanus Earhart - 2nd Corporal
Camillus Hatch - 3rd Corporal
Phillip Spotten - 4th Corporal
Sidney W. Lassiter - Color Sergeant

Privates:
Adams, Franklin
Adams, Henry W.
Adams, Thomas Jefferson
Anderson, James
Atkins, J.
Bellham, Bisante
Bernard, George
Bishop, George
Boal, A.
Bodiford, John C.
Brown, Alfred P.
Brown, Charles
Brownlee, Seaborn L.
Brumfield, Abraham
Burton, William
Cardenas, Ignacio
Carter, Claiborne C.
Carter, Solomon
Clark, Charles W. V.
Clifton, Charles S. G.
Collins, James
Cormick, John
Cranston, Charles
Danah, Joseph
Davenport, James A.
Deen, John
Delizell, William P.
Dickens, Joseph
Dillahan, Bissente
Dillon, James
Duffel, Martin V. B.
Dutranois, William J.
Ebert, Joseph
Edwards, G. T.
Elcever, Peter
Emmanuel, _____
Estrada, Jacobo
Evans, Allen J.
Extile, George
Flandreau, Stephen B.
Flores, Angelino
Fox, Asa
Frachtling, Julius
Garcia, Juan Trevino
Gardiner, James N.
Grimes, Edward
Haltz, Alexander
Hamlett, James E.
Haney, Joseph Henry
Henderson, John
Hernandez, Jose Antonio
Hernandez, Peter M.
Hillborn, John
Hoggatt, Phillip C.
Holland, Walter
Hudson, William Henry
Hughes, John
Hynson, Joseph H.
Hynson, William A.
Hyslop, John S.
Jackson, Amiclar
        (Malachi)
Jackson, Joseph  J.
Jackson, Joseph Warren
Johnnett, William Henry
Kemp, Joseph
Labatt, Robert
Lacour, Pierre
Land, John
Laughlin, John
Laughry, Edward
Lefave, Moses
Little, William M.
Long, James
Lopez, Clemen
Lott, Charles T.
Lott, William
Lowery, James F.
Lucase, P.
McCarty, John
McCormick, Oscar F.
McCrillis, John
McFadden, Milton H.
McFeely, William
McKent, Robert J.
Merchant, Joel B.
Moffat, M.
Morris, James
Morris, John M.
Moseback, Augustus
Murphy, Thomas
O'Brien, Michael
O'Shea, William
Phillips, Joel M.
Phillips, Rodney E.
Poole, M. S.
Prahm, George
Rachal, Napoleon
Richie, David
Richie, Ewell
Ryan, Daniel
Ryan, John
Ryan, Thomas
Sanchez, Herman
Scranage, Charles H.
Smith, John D.
Spillman, Michael
Taylor, John T.
Thornsbury, Samuel G.
Thornsbury, William H.
Tibbetts, Silas S.
Torres, Joseph
Torres, Merriday
Troshair, John
Tuhner, John
Washington, William
Weber, Charles
West, John W.
Willis, Holmes Nathan
Wry, William