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Pointe Coupee Artillery
ActiveJune 20, 1861 – May 4, 1865
CountryPointe Coupee Artillery Confederate States of America
AllegiancePointe Coupee Artillery Confederate States Army
BranchField Artillery
TypeBattalion
Nickname(s)Stewart's Pointe Coupee Artillery Battalion
Pointe Coupee Battery
Bouanchaud's Battery
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
  • Belmont
  • New Madrid
  • Island #10
  • Fort Pillow Bombardment
  • Second Corinth
  • Hatchie Bridge
  • Coffeeville
  • Yazoo Pass Exped.
  • Fort Pemberton
  • Deer Creek
  • Port Hudson Bombardment (March '63)
  • Grierson's Raid
  • Snyder's Bluff
  • Vicksburg Campaign
  • Champion Hill
  • Big Black River Bridge
  • Vicksburg Siege
  • Jackson Siege
  • Meridian Campaign
  • Atlanta Campaign
  • Bald Knob - checking/slowing action
  • Resaca
  • Adairsville - checking/slowing action
  • Calhoun - checking/slowing action
  • Cassville - skirmish
  • New Hope Church
  • Marietta
  • Kennesaw Mountain
  • Smyrna Camp Ground
  • Chattahoochee River - Howell's Ferry
  • Peachtree Creek - Moore's Mill
  • Atlanta Siege
  • Chattahoochee River Bridge
  • Lovejoy's Station
  • Allatoona Pass
  • Duck River-skirmish
  • Franklin - late arrival
  • Nashville 15th & 16th
  • Selma
  • West Point, Georgia, Fort Tyler
  • Girard, Ala./Columbus, Ga. (present)
  • "and other skirmishes"
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Major Richard A. Stewart
Capt. Alcide Bouanchaud
Sr. 1st Lt. Charles L. Ilsley
Sr. 1st Lt. E. C. Legendre

The Pointe Coupee Artillery was a Confederate Louisiana artillery unit[1] in the American Civil War made up primarily of men from the parishes of Pointe Coupee, East Baton Rouge, Livingston and other surrounding parishes as well as a large number of men from New Orleans.

  1. ^ Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr. Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861 1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (1989), pgs. 13, 14 IMof

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