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THE CHENEYVILLE RIFLES

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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Submitted by N. Wayne Cosby
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 H - 8th Louisiana Infantry
The Cheneyville Rifles - Rapides Parish

Patrick Foley Keary - Captain
John Mortimer Burges - 1st Lieutenant
William H. Oliver - 2nd Lieutenant
John R. Murphy - Jr. 2nd Lieutenant

Samuel Henry Robert - 1st Sergeant
Richard H. Glaze - 2nd Sergeant
Frank R. Johnson - 3rd Sergeant
Samuel Flower Meeker - 4th Sergeant
Oliver H. Perry - 5th Sergeant
Mitchell Neal - 1st Corporal
Baillio, Albert Gallatin Phelps - 2nd Cpl.
Isaac Christian Johnson - 3rd Corporal
Robert Crawford - 4th Corporal

Privates:
Berwick, David
Bond, Peter
Booker, James
Booker, William
Boudro, Joseph
Bradford, Franklin
Bradley, John J.
Breen, William
Brennon, Charles
Briely, Edward C.
Brosnan, Patrick
Burges, Benjamin B.
Calligan, Louis
Campbell, John
Carpenter, Alexander
Chaffin, John R.
Chaffin, Winburn L.
Charrier, Augustin
Cheney, Thomas
Chitty, Allen H.
Christ, George
Clark, James W.
Clark, Leonard
Clark, William J.
Clouner, Henry
Connolly, Patrick
Connor, John
Crenshaw, Archimedes
Crowell, John
Daily, Ephraim
Days, James
Derosier, Samuel S.
Devereaux, Thomas
Dial, Matthew
Dunn, Patrick D.
Duvall, William Emmett
Edlin, Samuel
Edwards, William E.
Flynn, Robert
Foreman, Elisha
Forman, William
Fraser, Alexander
Frederick, Mathias
Furlong, Thomas
Galloway, John R.
Gardner, Thomas
Gaspard, Genois
Glass, Samuel P.
Glover, James
Gohmert, Adolphe
Goodman, James M.
Goodman, Stephen A.
Goodson, George W.
Graham, Patrick A.
Graham, Richard
Graham, Theophile
Hanly, Mortimer B.
Harman, P.
Harrison, Flatus B.
Hebert, Francis
Heffran, James
Hickman, Lewis
Hicks, Louis David
Hodge, Jesse T.
Holland, Patrick
Irving, David
Juneau, Adrian
Jones, John
Kanna, H. M.
Kennedy, John
Kennedy, Patrick
Lawrence, John
Lewis, James D.
Loftus, Andrew Vousdan
Loftus, Patrick Johnson
Londeneaux, John
Long, Thomas
McDaniel, Charles
McDonald, John
McGinnis, Martin
McGuire, Henry
McMann, Thomas
McQuaid, James
Many, Edward
Meehan, Cornelius J.
Mayeux, Zenon Zelian
Morris, John H.
Murphy, Frank V.
Murphy, Thomas S.
Newell, Andrew
Newell, Thomas
Newton, Thomas D.
Nichols, John F.
Norris, Charles H.
Nugent, Edward
O'Neal, Henry M.
O'Neal William Warren
Orton, James
Parham, William H.
Parker, Thomas J.
Payne, Richard
Pendergrast, Thomas
Perkins, James Samuel
Porter, William W.
Reagan, J. R.
Riggs, John M.
Ringgold, William Hickman
Robert, Edward J.
Rutledge, Joseph R.
Simpson, Jesse T.
Singleton, Francis Marion
Slattery, Peter
Smith, R. H.
Smith, W.
Snoddy, Joshua
Sutherland, Silas
Swann, Benjamin R.
Swearingen, John
Townsend, Francis
Vernon, John E.
Wade, Richard
Wall, John H.
Wall, John M.
Wall, Samuel B.
Warman, Peter
Watts, Charles J.
Webber, Patrick
White, Robert M.
Wilson, Robert
Williams, Augustus E.
Wilson, John
Workman, J.
Workman, William Edward
Zolchan, James (Biloxi Indian)