Company C: CSA West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen. 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. A CAVALRYMAN'S REMINISCENCES ROLL OF COMPANY "C" WEST FELICIANA PARISH Those marked with a * are known to be living. *Capt. W. W. Leake, resigned in October, 1862; First lieut. Robt. D. Gill resigned in March, 1862; Second Lieut. E. Greene Davis, promoted to Captaincy; *Third Lieut. J. Oscar Howell, resigned in March, 1862; *John W. Leake promoted to First Lieutenant; J. Murphy, promoted to Second Lieutenant; Orderly Sergeant W. W. Davis promoted to Lieutenant in Power's Regiment; Sergeants, B. F. Miles, E. Plumedore, -- Trapanier. Privates --- Benjamin Allen, J. C. Allen, C. B. Austin, Jno. W. Barry, John Beck, J. Bruce, L. A. Burgess, Wm. Benson, ---- Blackerby, Henry Brown, John Campbell, Joe Clark, Morgan Clendenin, ---- Courtney, ---- Cooney, Otto Craig, Alex Campbell, Thos. Cowdin, Louis Dawson, ---- DeGrey, Frank Dickson, Wm. Drawdy, Lucius Elam, *L. Forno, Fairchild, Walter Fulsom, Elijah Gore, Albert G. Green, *D. B. Gorham, ---- Graham, Jackson Green, Cicero Gray, Wm. Hurd, *Robert. Huston, Longville Hull, A. C. Herndon, Wm. Herron, Herline, Hogan, Wm. Hornsby, Joe Hornsby, Jeffreys, *James R. Leake, ---- Lucas, *R. G. Lurty, *Tip Lopez, *George Lord, Wm. Minor, E. R. Mumford, J. P. Mumford, *F. M. Mumford, conrad Mosier, James McPherson, *Frank Monroe, Massy, Wash Miles, B. McNary, *W. A. Porter, Tom Percy, W. W. Pharis, John Payne, *Isaac Payne, *George W. Purnell, Ed Phillips, J. Ricks, Stephen Redmon, *W. A. Read, Samuel Rabb, John Ring, ---- Reinolds, *N. Greene Rhodes, *Lewis Sterling, Jno. W. Smith, Richard Smith, ---- Scott, Thurman, Tamply, *W. M. Town, Frank Temple, Phil Thompson, Wm. Thompson, Geo. White, James Woodruff, W. A. Williams, Milo Whitney, Geo. Whitney, *Geo. Wilcox, ---- Walker, ---- Wilson. The following are supposed to have belonged to this company: ---- Herbert, Joe Mulkey, ---- Richardson, ---- Sanford, ---- Scott, James White, John Freeland, John Perry, John Semple. Capt. W. W. Leake is still living, a lawyer by profession, and at this time one of the Judges of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Capt. E. Green Davis died in West Feliciana some years ago. Lieuts. Robt. Gill and J. O. Howell, who resigned in 1862 are still living, the latter at Slaughter, La. John W. Leake, who was promoted to 1st Lieut. and afterward to the Brigade Inspector Generalship is still living in West Feliciana. Lieutenant J. Murphy is perhaps still living, but where has not been ascertained. Willis W. Davis who was orderly sergeant, was promoted to a lieutenancy in some other command and was killed in Jackson, La. John W. Barry, who succeeded Fox as adjutant, died in Texas some years ago. Forno, Laurence, still lives, in New Orleans. Greene, Albert G., was in the quartermaster's department --- died after the war. Green Jack, killed at Danville, Ky. Hurd, Wm. succeeded Robinson as commissary --- lived some years after the war and died in New Orleans. Herndon, A. C. succeeded Cammack as quartermaster and died in New Orleans some years ago. Leake, James R. The first sergeant major is still living. At present connected officially with the Charity hospital. Lurty, R. G. Still living in West Feliciana Parish. Lopez, "Tip." Still living in West Feliciana Parish. Lord, George. Still living in New Orleans. Minor, Wm. For a while color bearer of the regiment; afterward transferred to some other service. Mumford, E. R. Died. Mumford, F. M. Was made brigade ordnance office in S. W. Miss. and E. La. department. Is still living; an M. D. and druggist at St. Francisville, La. Monroe, Frank A. Stilling living in New Orleans. A Supreme Court judge. Porter, W. A. Still lives in West Feliciana; has represented his parish in the Legislature. Payne, Isaac. Still living in New Orleans. Purnell, George W. Still living in East Feliciana parish. Read, W. A. Still living in Mississippi. He was Col. John Scott's step son. Rhodes, Green N. Was promoted in some other command and fought in the Trans Miss. department. Still living in Point Coupee parish Sterling, Louis. Still living in West Feliciana. Town, W. M. Still living in West Feliciana. Wilcox, George. Still living in West Feliciana. S. Redman was taken from the Soldiers' Home to the State Insane Asylum at Jackson, La. and died there in April 1900 Source: "A Cavalryman's Reminiscences of the Civil War" by Howell Carter abt 1900 Louisiana State Courier, October 1984 Compiled by: Annette Carpenter Womack, editor Typed by: Gaytha Carver Thompson