Military: Civil War - 31st Louisiana Infantry, COMPANY I Submitted for the Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Kelly Shockley ................................................................................. ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Company I 31st Louisiana Infantry Confederate States of America VPL = Vicksburg Parole List ABB = Andrew Booths Book VCB = Vicksburg Confederate Burials MMCL = Magnolia Mississippi Casualty List CMCL = Canton Mississippi Casualty List Officers Name Source Information Captain John W. White VPL, ABB 1st Lieutenant Charles H. Griffin VPL, ABB Junior 2nd Lieutenant Simpson E. Taylor VPL 1st Sergeant Henry C. Gully VPL Sergeant Henry C. Barron VPL, ABB Sergeant William B.H. Poer ABB Sergeant John M. Rabun VPL Sergeant B.B. Thomas VPL Sergeant Milton B. White VPL Corporal E.L. Hill VPL Corporal William C. Masterson VPL Corporal A.W. Sims VPL Corporal George W. Trayler VPL Privates Name Source Information Baily, Marion VPL Barron, James D. ABB Barron, James H.M. VPL Baum, James D. VPL Bell, T.W. VPL Brashear, Thomas J. VPL, ABB Bruziel, J.P. VPL Bryan, Alex VPL Cammack, W.J. VPL Caskey, A.F. VPL Casky, W.H. ABB Died at Vicksburg, MS on July 2, 1863. Cherry, J.C. VPL Cherry, John W. VPL, ABB Cooper, Columbus Marshal ABB Cooper, Thomas VPL Cox, M.R. VPL Curb, T.C. VPL Dandy, Io O. VPL Davis, Alvin P. VPL, ABB Davis, J.H. VPL Davis, T.L. VPL Donaghey, Columbus VPL Earnest, John G. VPL Elkins, H.K. VPL Foster, James W. VPL Foster, W. VPL Gaskins, John F. VPL, ABB Gay, W.G. VPL George, Elias VPL, ABB Godley, J.B. VPL Gooring, Andrew VPL Harris, J.N. VPL Holloway, Jasper VPL, ABB Holmes, A.J. VPL Holms, Madison VPL Honeycutt, Brittan VPL Hurt, John VPL Johnson, Joseph A. VPL Johnson, Shadrick VPL, ABB Joiner, William C. VPL King, C.J. VPL Langley, M.L. VPL Manning, John VPL, ABB Mayes, Jeremiah R. ABB Mays, J.M. VPL McBroom, J.W. VPL McBryde, William VPL McLelland, Frederick Marion VPL, ABB Murry, Wesley T. VPL Patterson, William E. VPL Pinckard, Allen A. VPL, ABB Porter, William T. ABB Posey, W.B.H. VPL Purdy, John H. VPL Rabun, C.P. VPL Rabun, Thomas Jefferson VPL, ABB Ramsey, James K. ABB Ramsey, John M. VPL Ramsey, J.R. VPL Reider, George ABB Died at Vicksburg, MS on June 13, 1863. Renfroe, William N. VPL Rininger, Thomas M. VPL Robertson, J.J.S. VPL Rockett, Hosea Holcombe ABB Russell, John W. VPL Shaver, Benjamin Dixon ABB Simmons, J.G.D. VPL Sims, Butler K. VPL, ABB Slade, William L. VPL Teigwell, B.S. VPL Templeton, Samuel R. VPL Terral, Asa L. VPL Thomas, John W. ABB Thomson, K. ABB Died at Vicksburg, MS on June 27, 1863. Turbeville, Willis H. VPL Upshaw, Alex W. VPL Wallace, Benjamin F. VPL, ABB Walker, G.W. VPL Wheeler, T.J. VPL Wheelis, I.M. VPL White, D.B. VPL White, M.G. VPL White, Walter D. VPL Willhite, John A. VPL Williams, D.F. VPL Williamson, Robert F. VPL, ABB Company I was nicknamed the Sparrow Cadets, and most of the men in the company hailed from Union Parish, Louisiana. At this time it has been confirmed that that there were at least 12 officers and 86 privates in Company I.