soldiers Archives - 64 Parishes

More than 50,000 white men from Louisiana shouldered arms for the Confederacy.

Guerrilla warfare in Civil War Louisiana attacked both Confederate and Union forces, as well as civilians.

P. G. T. Beauregard, born in St. Bernard Parish in 1818, was among the first prominent generals of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Louisiana native Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a prominent Confederate general.

Five thousand to ten thousand white Louisianans fought for the Union during the Civil War.

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