Military Record of Louisiana: Including Biographical and Historical Papers Relating to the Military Organizations of the State [Paperback]

Napier Bartlett (Author)

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Napier Bartlett's Military Record Of Louisiana is the reprint of an 1875 memoir which makes available a valuable resource on Louisiana troops' participation in the Civil War. Bartlett served throughout the war in Louisiana's elite Washington Artillery and fought in many battles in Virginia and the East. Bartlett's Military Record Of Louisiana provides much detailed information and official data concerning Louisiana units in the Confederate Army, including muster rolls of the Orleans Guard, the Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment, the Washington Artillery, and Louisiana troops who fought in Virginia, the West, and the Trans-Mississippi. It also lists the casualties of various regiments (so far as as known then) and the cemeteries where they were buried, and includes company journals and personal narratives of prominent Louisiana soldiers. Part memoir, part inventory, Military Record Of Louisiana is a storehouse of information for scholars, students, and genealogists alike. No civil war reference book collection can be considered complete without Bartlett's Military Record Of Louisiana. -- Midwest Book Review

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• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807120782
• ISBN-13: 978-0807120781
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,652,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Valuable Civil War Resource, March 7, 2002

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This review is from: Military Record of Louisiana: Including Biographical and Historical Papers Relating to the Military Organizations of the State (Paperback)

Originally published in 1875, the Military Record of Louisiana is a collection of various written records, casualty lists and regimental muster rolls pertaining to Louisiana's participation in the American Civil War. It was compiled by Napier Bartlett, a native of Georgia who had studied in Louisiana prior to the war and entered the service of the famed Washington Artillery when the war began. The collection is, as Bartlett admits, "in no sense complete." Among the scattered and fragmentary items that one can find in the Military Record of Louisiana are, for example, the Journal of the Orleans Guard, the muster and partial casualty list for the 6th Louisiana Infantry, and The Louisiana Brigades in Virginia and Their Last Commander. By far the largest document that the book contains is Bartlett's own account of the service of the Washington Artillery. Despite the fragmentary nature of the Military Record of Louisiana it is without a doubt an important Civil War resource, and therefore a valuable addition to every Civil War buff's library.