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Washington Parish Louisiana

Map of Historic Places in Southeast Louisiana

9th Inf., Co. I, Washington Parish Rifles
The Third Louisiana Cavalry

Search Ancestry.com - Louisiana Confederate Soldiers
Josia h Gale, Franklinton, LA 26 May 1827
PDF File Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries.
p. 56 Letter concerning Slave Sale
LSU - Civil War Resorces
LSU Civil War - Home
Maryland "Bradford Dragoons" In Town
Adopt A Confederate Program
Civil War Shipwrecks
From the Minerals Management Service

World War II Shipwrecks
From the Minerals Management Service

Internet Sources for Civil War Information
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

LSU CIVIL WAR
http://www.civilwarhome.com/indexcivilwarinfo.htm

Index of Internet Sources from LSU CIVIL WAR PAGES

Louisiana VFW

Patriot Files

Information found on-line concerning Washington Parish Louisiana and the Civil War.

Civil War Veterans of Washington Parish - PDF file of several Message Boards

3rd Maryland Bradford Dragoons Ordered to Franklinton

Source - "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3)
http://www.mosocco.com/maryland.html

3rd Maryland Regiment Cavalry--("BRADFORD DRAGOONS."): Organized at Baltimore, Md., August 8, 1863, to January 9, 1864. Attached to Cavalry Reserve, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to January, 1864. Unattached, Defenses of New Orleans, La., Dept. of the Gulf, to March, 1864. District of LaFourche, Dept. of the Gulf, to June, 1864. District of Morganza, Dept. of the Gulf, to August, 1864. United States forces, Mobile Bay, Dept. of the Gulf, to December, 1865. District of Southern Alabama, Military Division of West Mississippi, to May, 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, West Mississippi, to June, 1865. Dept. of Mississippi to September, 1865.

SERVICE--Duty in the Defenses of Baltimore, Md., until January, 1864. Ordered to New Orleans, La., then to Madisonville, La., and duty there until March, 1864. Expedition to Franklinton February 1-3. Flemming's Ford, Madisonville, February 11. Ordered to Brashear City March 14 and duty there until June. At Morganza until July. Expedition to the Atchafalaya May 30-June 5. Morgan's Ferry Road June 9. Ordered to New Orleans, La., July 1. Dismounted July 7. Sailed from Algiers for Mobile Bay, Ala., August 5. Siege operations against Fort Morgan August 9-23. Capture of Fort Morgan August 23. Post duty at Dauphin's Island and in District of Southern Alabama until March, 1865. Campaign against Mobile March and April. Garrison duty at Fort Gaines until April 30. Ordered to New Orleans, La., April 30, and duty there until June. Ordered to Natchez, Miss., June 20. Duty there and In the Dept. of Mississippi until September. Mustered out at Vicksburg, Miss., September 7, 1865.

More Info Maryland Infantry 3rd Cavalry
http://www.2ndmdinfantryus.org/uscav3.html

Links of Weapons of WWI and WWII

World War I and WWII weapons
http://www.fred.net/stevent/mw.htm
The Mauser Weasel

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