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This is a list of regiments from the U.S. state of Louisiana that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The list of Louisiana Confederate Civil War units is shown separately.
Confederate veteran Major Eugene Wythe Baylor of Co. C, 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery Regiment and Quartermaster's Dept. Confederate States Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. 1st Regiment Heavy Artillery; 2nd Battalion Heavy Artillery
This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States ( Union Army ) and the Confederate States ( Confederate States Army ).
Formed in April 1861, the regiment was sent to fight in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. Joining a brigade of Louisiana regiments, it fought at Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg in 1862, at Chancellorsville, Second Winchester, Gettysburg, and Mine Run in 1863, and at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Monocacy ...
The other units in Adams' brigade were the 13th, 16th, and 25th Louisiana Infantry Regiments, the 14th Louisiana Battalion, and the 5th Company, Washington Artillery. [13] That morning, Adams' Louisianans changed into new uniforms and discarded their old lice-infested clothing.
After New Orleans fell to Admiral David Farragut in April 1862, Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler headquartered his 12,000-man Army of the Gulf in New Orleans. On September 27, 1862, Butler organized the Union Army's 1st Louisiana Native Guard regiment, some of whose members had served in the previous Confederate Native Guard regiment.
The Red River Campaign: Union and Confederate Leadership and War in Louisiana (Shreveport, LA: Parabellum Press), 2003. ISBN 0-9726-6720-2 [Contains a chapter, "Lt. Charles W. Kennedy and the 156th New York Infantry in Alexandria".]
This category relates to individual regiments, organizations and batteries raised by or associated with Louisiana for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. For more information on the state's role in the war effort, see Louisiana in the American Civil War .