Battle Flag
of the
28th Thomas' Regiment Louisiana Infantry
...Flag design is based on a small torn section
of a regimental battle flag which is on display in the
Confederate Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana.
19 May 1865, the regiment was disbanded.
Usually when a regiment was disbanded
the flag was torn into ten pieces and a piece given
to each of the ten company commanders.
(Placement of Battle Inscriptions is specualtive
and based on similar Confederate battle flags
of the same period.)
Joseph Victor Richard, Pvt. Co. K.
...At this point in time,
we are still searching for an image of Pvt. Joseph V.
Richard
and we hope to add one in the forseeable future.Should any
of his
decendants have a photo of him, and would gratiously care to
place
a copy of his photo at this web site...this researcher would
be grateful.
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Richard, Joseph
Victor
Pvt. Co.
K.
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~ Military Record
~
Richard, Joseph V., Pvt. Co. K, 28th (Thomas') La.
Inf.
En. St. Landry, April 6, 1862. rolls from Aug. 31, 1862, to
Feb. 28,
1863, Present. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured
and
paroled Vicksburg, Miss., July 4, 1863.
~ Biography
~
J. V. RICHARD, Lake Charles. Joseph Victor was born in
St. Landry
parish, March 13, 1845. He is the son of J. B. V. and
Genevieve (Zerinque) Richard, natives of St. Landry parish.
J. B. V. Richard was a large planter
of St. Landry parish. He died in 1871, at the age of
sixty-four years; his
widow still survives him and is a resident of Opelousas. The
Richard
family have resided in St. Landry parish for generations.
The subject of this sketch is one of a family of
six children. He received
his education in Opelousas and was attending school at that
place at the
breaking out of the war. In the first of the struggle he
enlisted in
Company K, Twenty-eight (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry,
and served
until the war closed. Enlisting as a private he was
promoted, and at the close
of the war he was second lieutenant. After the war he
engaged as a salesman
in the mercantile establishment at Opelousas, where he
remained until 1883,
when he came to Lake Charles and was for a short while
engaged as a
salesman in a mercantile house in this place, when he opened
a business
of his own and has conducted it with success since that
time.
He was married in 1866 to Miss Alice Hollier, of
St. Landry parish. She
died in 1879, having become the mother of six children,
three sons and
three daughters. In 1881 Mr. Richard married again, Miss
Aurelia Hollier,
a sister of his former wife. Mr. Richard is a member of the
K. of H., and
is one of the trustees of the lodge.
Information reprinted from:
Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical
by William Henry Perrin (first printed in 1891) p. 535
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