Military:  Civil War - COMPANY A
                       31st Louisiana Infantry

Submitted by: Kelly Shockley
              kshockley@acs-online.net

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                      COMPANY A 

               31st Louisiana Infantry

            Confederate States of America


VPL = Vicksburg Parole List	ABB = Andrew Booth's Book      VCB=Vicksburg Confederate Burials

MMCL = Magnolia Mississippi Casualty List 		CMCL = Canton Mississippi Casualty List

					   OFFICERS


Name					Source		Information	

Captain Edward J. Dedlowy		VPL 
1st Lieutenant D.F. Ratliff		VPL 
2nd Lieutenant W.D. King		VPL 
2nd Lieutenant John H. Wade		VCB, ABB 	Died at Vicksburg Feb. 2, 1863
Jr. 2nd Lieutenant Josiah L. Stovall	VPL 
1st Sergeant William H. Draughan	VPL 
Sergeant Mashall D. Dickson		VPL 
Sergeant John Hays			VPL 
Sergeant Peter M.S. Longmire		VPL 
Sergeant William D. Reid		VPL 
Sergeant Thadeus C. Sanders		VCB, ABB 	Died at Vicksburg June 12, 1863
Corporal H.R. Cato			ABB
Corporal Thomas J. Henry		VPL 
Corporal Henry T. Holt			VPL 
Corporal A.H. McWilliam			VPL 



				            PRIVATES

Name				Source 			Information

Archie, Henry			VPL 	
Austin, Moses			VPL 
Bach, John			VPL 
Blancard, Lewis D. 		VPL 
Boile, J.D.P.			VCB 		  	Died at Vicksburg April 29, 1862.
Carthy, F.W. 			VPL 
Chapman, Joseph F.		ABB 
Coker, Edward Young		ABB
Cooly, C.C.			VCB 			Killed at Vicksburg June 27, 1863.
Garner, S. 			VPL 
Goldstine, Julens		VPL 
Guier, Peter			VPL 
Griffin, George			VPL 
Hardy, Jesse			VPL 
Hardy, M.F.			VPL 
Hasty, J.W.			VPL 
Hudgins, Fred M. 		VPL 
Hudson, Richard R.		VPL 
Hurley, William A.		VCB, ABB 		Killed at Vicksburg June 27, 1863.
Isom, Bowling			VPL 
Isucs, J.O.			VPL 
Jackson, G.			VPL 
Kent, I.S. 			VPL 
Land, Alfred D.			ABB 
Lester, Albert J.		VPL 
Marshall, A.J.			VPL 
McKee, Dora			VPL 
McKey, J.			VPL 
McRay, A.A.			VPL 
Palmer, W. J. 			MMCL
Overstreet, Samuel B. 		VPL 
Reid, W. 			VPL 
Ridings, John			VPL 
Sanders, B.F.			VPL 
Sanders, J.W.			VPL 
Sheridan, Mitchell		VPL 
Simms, William L.		VPL 
Skinner, Marquis W.		VPL 
Smith, N.B.			VPL 
Tidwell, Gideon G.		VPL 
Trouard, Prosper		ABB 
West, Pincey C.			ABB     Died as a P.O.W. in Indianapolis, Marion County, IN in 1864
West, T.C. 			VPL 
Wright, Robert			VPL 



	Company A consisted of men who were mostly from Carroll Parish, and was nicknamed the Confederate Defenders.