DUCHAMP DE CHASTAIGNE, Louis C., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
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LOUIS C. DUCHAMP DE CHASTAIGNE, ST. MARTIN PARISH.--Mr. Duchamp is a native of
Morris county, New Jersey.  born February 8, 1842.  He is the son of J. B.
Eugene Duchamp de Chastaigne and Marie Louise Josephine Sophie Merope Martin
de Lamartiniere, both from the Island of Martinique.

At the age of three years Mr. Duchamp's parents left New Jersey for
Martinique, in 1845, and at the age of eight years left Martinique (in the
year 1850) for New Orleans, Louisiana, and thence for St. Martinville, in
1853, where he attended school.  When the war broke out he was a druggist,
assisting his father in that capacity.  He enlisted in the Confederate service
on the 5th of May, but left for active service with his two brothers on June
5, 1861, in Company C, Eighth Louisiana Regiment, First Louisiana Brigade,
under the command of General Dick Taylor, and made the campaign under
Stonewall Jackson.  He was severely wounded on the 27th of June, 1862, at Cold
Harbor (Seven Days' Fight before Richmond), and was detailed in the
Trans-Mississippi department, as druggist, for a few months.  After recovering
from his wound he reenlisted for active service and assisted at the battles
of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.  At the close of the war he went
back to his family and occupation.  September 18, 1866, he married Miss Marie
Philomene Emma Voorhies, daughter of Edgar Voorhies, a prominent lawyer,and
Marie Eugéide Martin, of this parish.  To this union have been born six
children:  Theobald E.,  Marie Louise (wife of Eugene Olivier),  Louis Joseph, 
Marie Emma,  Marie Cidalise and  Francis T.  Mr. Duchamp is a successful
planter, and owns a sugar plantation of five hundred acres in St. Martin
parish, which he cultivates principally in sugar cane.  Mr. Duchamp and family
are Catholics.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp323-324. Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.