Lt. Col. Arthur J.L. Fremantle of Her Majesty’s Coldstream Guards was the Forrest Gump of the Civil War. He was everywhere. In the space of just three and a half months, he traveled from Brownsville, Texas through nearly every seceded more »
After the fights at Milliken’s Bend and Mound Plantation, the troops of Walker’s Texas Division remained in the region of northeast Louisiana for a while, harassing plantations and causing disruptions when they could. Gen. Richard Taylor, however, took the bulk more »
In this final installment of my Archives Month series, I want to continue by highlighting another small repository. The Special Collections and Genealogy Departments at the Ouachita Parish Public Library in Monroe, Louisiana provided me with outstanding resources. Not only more »