Known Confederate Dead from Tensas Parish, Louisiana Extracted from "Civil War In Tensas Parish, by Jeffrey Owens Submitted by Edith Ziegler ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** October 3, 1861, Charles B. Tenney, age twenty-six, born in Georgia, parish levee engineer and real estate agent, boarding at the Hotel St. Joseph; killed by an accidental pistol shot. February 2, 1862, Thomas LaRoche Ellis, age twenty-six, born in Mississippi, a brother of Sarah Dorsey, a planter at "Elliston" plantation; died on leave, of consumption. February 16, 1862, Hampton L. Lewis, age twenty-four, born in Mississippi, a plantation manager; died at Nashville, Tennessee. March 10, 1862, Dr. Henry Y. Weems, age twenty five, born in Maryland, a physician boarding at the Hotel St.Joseph; died of heart disease near Shelbyville, Tennessee. May 8, 1862, James W. Coleman, age thirty-seven, born in Kentucky; a grocery, produce, and dry goods merchant in St. Joseph; died in the hospital in Lynchburg, Virginia. June 7, 1862, Robert King, age thirty-two, born in Mississippi, a plant- er at "Minnie Ha Ha" plantation; died of pneumonia in Richmond, Virginia. June 9, 1862, Thomas Prince Farrar, Jr., about twenty, born in Louisiana a lawyer's son from St. Joseph; died at Greenwood Hospital of wounds received at the Battle of Port Republic. June 30, 1862, Robert A. Hudson, age twenty-three, born in Tennessee, a planter in southwest Tensas Parish; killed. September 1, 1862. G. Leigh Briscoe, age eighteen, born in Mississippi, a store clerk in St. Joseph; killed at Denmark, Tennessee. January 7, 1863, Same E. Byrd, age thirty-two, born in Mississippi, a plantation manager; died of wounds received at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. January 28, 1863, J. H. Foster, age thirty-one, born in Virginia, a carpenter in St. Joseph; died of wounds at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. April 19, 1863, Adolf Reinfrank, age eighteen, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; a bootmaker in Waterproof; killed in action. April 24, 1863, John H Paxton, age twenty-seven, born in Virginia, a manager or farmer living on Newell's Ridge; killed in action. May 2, 1863, John S. Pope, age twenty-five, born in Alabama, a plantation manager; killed at Chancellorsville, Virginia. June 6, 1863, Dr. John Brumley, age forty-three, born in Virginia, a planter at "Disharoon" plantation; captured at home, and died in the Military Prison at Alton, Illinois. July 8, 1863, Arch P. Neathery, age fifteen, born in Louisiana, a plant- er's son at "St Mary" plantation; died of typhoid at the School House and Academy Hospital, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. July 26, 1863, Morton C. Macmichael, age twenty-five, born in Mississippi, the parish clerk of court, boarding at Hotel St. Joseph; died of wounds received at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. November 27, 1863, Jacob Schrider, age twenty-eight, born in Hanover, Germany; a saddler at Waterproof; killed at the battle of Payne's Farm- He died gallantly. January 29, 1864, Robert L. S. Holloway, age forty-one, born in Virginia, a plantation manager at Ashwood Landing on Lake St. Joseph; captured at Natchez on December 10, 1863, and died in prison at Camp Morton, Indiana. December 6, 1864, T. B. Stevens, age twenty-six, born in Mississippi, a planter near Waterproof; captured at Camp Moore, Louisiana, he died at Ship Island Prison grave number sixty-nine. December 28, 1864, Thomas J. Buck, age thirty-eight, born in Georgia, a planter at "Moro" plantation; died at Camp Morton Prison, Indiana. January 11, 1865, James E. Powell, age forty-two, born in North Carolina, a plantation manager; captured in Tensas Parish on September 19, 1864, he died of pneumonia at Elmira Prison, New York. February 5, 1865, Weldon Williams, age fifty, born in Ireland, a carpenter in St. Joseph; died of pneumonia at Elmira Prison, New York.