McWaters' Rangers, CSA. Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson

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Source: Undated Newspaper Clipping from Melrose Collection NSU.
Louisiana State Courier April 1985
Annette Carpenter Womack, editor



LAST OF MUSTER ROLLS

LOUISIANA DEMOCRAT FINISHES THE PUBLICATION OF THE RAPIDES COMPANIES.

The following is taken from the Louisiana Democrat:
With the publication of the muster roll of the McWaters Rangers in this issue,
which we have been reproducing for the past thirteen weeks from the war files
of the Louisiana Democrat, the entire list of muster rolls is completed.

It shows that Rapides parish furnished the Confederacy thirteen companies,
composed of 1107 officers and men, a greater number we believe, than any other
parish of the State, save and excepting the Parish of Orleans.  The bones of a
large majority of these soldiers lie bleaching on every battle field from
Virginia to Texas.  Hence, it is meet and proper that the Parish of Rapides
should erect a monument to perpetuate the memory of those who sacrificed their
lives in behalf of the annals of the civilized world.

MUSTER ROLL OF MCWATERS' RANGERS.

OFFICERS:
James A. McWaters, Captain
T. J. Stafford, 1st Lieutenant.
O. L. Chamberlain; 2nd Lieut.
E. T. Lewis, 3rd Lieutenant.

PRIVATES:
J. G. Armstrong, Lewis Andrews, A. L. Bridges, J. H. Bogguss, James Cobb, E.
E. Dodge, J. G. Davis, J. T. W. Gant, Lewis Frazier, D. T. Hjaworth, O. W.
Hudson, Dempsey Iles, J. C. Irving, J. D. Johnson, E. W. Laird, R. Lacour,
Leon Lacaste, R. A. Murray, J. A. Perkins, J. G. Reidheimer, W. H. Randolphj,
H. W. W. Reynolds, J. P. Snelling, Wm. Sneed, J. T. Smith, L. E. Torrey, W. E.
Taylor, W. A. Vestal, Goran Williams, D. W. Williams, H. P. Young, R. E.
Avery, W. W. Amos, A. W. Bean, T. J. Baggett, F. M. Duffel, James Duffel, L.
Edwards, J. Da. A. Fant, Peter Gibney, Stephen Holstein, Robert Hayes, H. M.
Iles, A. G. Johnson, C. S. Kay, L. A. Layssard, Phillip Lacaste, F. E.
McManus, M. S. Neal, D. C. Paul, J. E. Robert, C. D. Robinson, Robert Rector,
B. F. Scott, W. H. Smith, F. L. Thorpe, Nath Tyler, Wm. Vorbles, John A.
Williams, John Wellington, Levi Weeks.