Pelican Rangers, No. 1, Co. G., Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana The Southern Publishing Company, 1890 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************ PELICAN RANGERS NO. 1 CO. G. Company G, Pelican Rangers No. 1, was mustered in with No. 2; W. W. Breazeale was captain until September 24, 1861; W. O. Breazeale, fist and G. W. Halloway, second lieutenant, both of whom resigned before the close of October, 1861, L. Caspari, the second junior lieutenant in October, 1861, and captain in February, 1862. W. B. Butler, the first sergeant was elected captain May 8, 1862, and P. L. Prudhomme, second lieutenant; J. C. Trichel was third, J. A. Derbonne, fourth, and F. F. Chaler, fifth sergeant; the latter died at Maysville, Ark., September 14, 1861. P. Bossier was chosen third lieutenant in May, 1862; B. B. Breazeale, fifth sergeant; F. Gaiennie, first lieutenant; James Kile, third lieutenant; James W. Moss, second lieutenant, and K. Espy, assistant surgeon. The list of deaths, as given in Tunnard's report, is as follows: Placide Bossier, at Oak Hills, V. Bordinave at Castillian Springs, October 2, 1862; C. F. H. Schroeder at Elk Horn; John M. Tauzin, at Iuka, and B. F. Warner at Elk Horn.