THE CONFEDERATE STATE RANGERS, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Debbie Carpenter

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SOURCE:
OPELOUSAS 1720 - 1970
Opelousas 250th Anniversary Edition
Edition June 1970 Daily World

THIRD COMPANY TO GO TO WAR

The third company to leave Opelousas and St. Landry Parish to join the
Confederate forces in the spring of 1861 was The Confederate State
Rangers. Captain was William H. Spencer, and 1st Lieutenant was M.S.
Prud'homme (they still spelled Prudhomme with the apostrophe then, as
did others with vowel-omitted French names, such as D'Arbonne, which
have since dropped it.)

The Rangers joined Stonewall Jackson's Louisiana Brigade along with
the first two war-bound St. Landry Parish companies, whose rosters are
also listed.  The Louisiana Brigade fought valiantly during Jackson's
awesome campaign in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and in  
Pennsylvania and Maryland.  The Louisiana Brigade suffered terrific
casualties, having been in the thick of the worst of the Civil War
for a goodly part of its duration.

Here is the roster of The Confederate States Rangers, third company
to leave St. Landry Parish to fight the War between the States, which
included 32 recruits "from our sister parish of Calcasieu."

OFFICERS AND NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS

William H. Spencer, Capt.
Louis Prud'homme Jr., 2nd Lt.
Nat. G. Davis, Ensign
Jos. C. Lebleu, 2nd Sgt.
Paul Lambert 4th Sgt.
James McKinney, 1st Cpt.
Wm. L. Hutchins, 3rd Capt.
M.S. Prud'homme, 1st Lt.
E.D. Seaton Jr., 2nd. Lt.
A. Perrodin, 1st Sgt.
Isaac Ryan, 3rd Sgt.
J.F. Mouille, 5th Sgt.
Isaac Reeves, 2nd Cpt.
Henry Miller, 4th Cpl.

PRIVATES

Joseph Auge
Scoulange Augustin
E. Babled
John Bentz
John U. Berry
Wm. C. Bolin
Emile Buller
Valmount Chaisson
Jean Courville
Louis Courville
Patrick Coyne
Guilliaume Durio
H.A. Fleshman
Joseph Grange
James Hardisty
David Hargrove
Joseph Herrington
Easton Hoffpauir
Nathan L. Howell
H.W. Jeffries
David Johnson
Justice H. Jackson
James Kennedy
Benj. Kirkman
Gustave Kughfahl
J.B. Lambert
Isaac Landsdale
Zephirin Langley
Edward Linder
John H. Lindsey
Armelin Linscicome
George Lalonde
Anatoie Lalonde
Andre Lastrapes
Pat F. McCormick
Aquila McDaniel Jr.
Dupre Marceantel
Maxile Marcantel
J.M. Miller
Alfred Morgan
Joseph Moreau
James Moyle
Lewis Nugent
H.W. Newton
John Norton
Edward O'Hara
Nelson D. Orent
Robert F. Pierce
Albert M. Pithon
Octave Prud'homme
James Ragan
James Reeves
Joseph Richard
Michael Ryan
Jno. C. Reichenback
Frank Romerkirchen
Pat Scanlin
Wm. Scutten
Peter Sherry
G.L. Strange
Thos. E. Stringer
Frederick Sack
Jean Trahan
Pierre Vincent
Alexander Wade
Cyrus Whigam

Other St. Landry Parish companies in the Army of Confederate States of
America, departure rosters of which we have in our files of The 
Opelousas Courier and can reprint here are: 

St. Landry Volunteers, Henry Garland, Capt.
The Opelousas Volunteers, Louis Lastrapes, Capt.
Sons of St. Landry, Napoelon Robin, Capt.
Creole Rebels of Grand Coteau, E.P. Doremus, Capt.