About the Book
About 1000 men from Union Parish served in the Confederate Army or the local militia guard. This book offers the service record of several hundred of them, and features portraits and short biographies of over 50 of them. This is the sixth in a series of books listing the confederates of a Louisiana Parish. Other parishes in this series were Avoyelles, Felicianas, Pointe Coupee, Rapides and St. Landry. Photos included in this issue are: A ANDERSON, James M. Co. C, 12th Louisiana Infantry ARRANT, David, 31st Louisiana Infantry B BARRETT, Calvin, father of 15, served in Georgia Infantry BARRON, Henry Calloway, 31st LA Infantry BEARDEN, Phillip Weaver, 31st LA Infantry BOATWRIGHT, Lanier, died while on furlough BOLTON, George Washington, businessman, banker BRANTLEY, William F, Co. E, 25th Louisiana Infatntry BREED, Thomas M., 13th Georgia Infantry BURFORD, Robert Baldwin, 17th Louisiana Cavalry C COBB, Williamson Webster, 6th Louisiana Cavlary COLE, William Meek, 11th Alabama CROW, William, Madison Light Artillery D DAWSON, Dudley, 17th Louisiana Infantry DIGBY, John Clinton, Co. C, 28th Georgia Infantry F FEAZAEL, Corp.. Mitchell, 12th Louisiana Infantry FERGUSON, John Nimrod, Constable, Georgia Infantry H HAM, Hillary Herbert (1834-1889), 17th Louisiana Infantry HAMILTON, John D., Farmerville, 17th Louisiana Infantry HEARD, James P., Bernice, 2nd,13th Reg. Partisan Rangers HEARD, John R., 31st Louisiana Infantry HENRY, Corp. Robert H., 5th Louisiana Cavalry HOLLIS, Derrill Wolf, Marion, 13th Louisiana Battalion L-N LYNCH, James Bernard "Barney", Bernice, Missouri Cav, Inf. MANNING, James Monroe, Farmerville, killed in 1863 MAYES, James Travis, 31st LA Infantry MEARES, William H., Co. H & Co. I, 31st Louisiana Infantry MOORE, Richard Tubb, Bernice, 12th Louisiana Infantry NOLAN, Henry Clay, 31st LA Infantry O ODOM, Benjamin, Co. H, 31st, Died after Viicksburg ODOM, James Marion, Co. H, 31st LA Inf. P PARISH, James O., Bayou Corney, Co. H, 31st LA Infantry PARISH, Rev. Robert Trevathan, Methodist Circuit Rider PARKER, H. C., Marion, 17th Louisiana Infantry PUCKETT, Albert Washington, 4th Arkansas Infantry R REGAN, John Davis, Arkansas Infantry REGAN, William Daniel, Zion Hill, 17th Louisiana Infantry REYNOLDS, Robert M., Co. A, 6th Louisiana Infantry S SAWYER, Samuel, Pheonix Rilfes, 17th Louisiana Infantry SEALE, Capt. James Hayden, 12th Regt. Louisiana Infantry SELLERS, Elisha T., 12th Louisiana Infantry SMITH, William Calloway, Mayor, Home Reserve Guard SKAINS, William Murray, Co. G, 31st LA Infantry SPURLOCK, John Thomas, 17th Alabama SWAFFORD, G. W, Tennessee Infantry, Cavalry T TERRY, Rev. J. W. Terry, Downsville, 17th Louisiana Inf, THOMAS, Burwell, Marion merchant, Co. I, 31st LA Infantry TRAYOR, John Robert, Co. A, 6th Louisiana Infantry TRAYLOR, Samuel or Simpson Elias TRAYLOR, Francis Marion, Field Staff, 6th Louisiana Infantry TRIMBLE, James E., Farmerville Editor shot to death in duel TUCKER, Francis Marion, father of 17 children, 31st Infantry TUGWELL, Benjamin S., Farmerville, 31st LA Infantry U-Z UPSHAW, Alexander W., Bayou Corney, Co. I, 31st LA Inf. WALLACE, Benjamin Franklin, of Marion, 31st LA Inf. WELDON, Ephraim Andrew, Co. K, 2nd Louisiana Infantry WHITE, Pinkney, Co E, 16th Louisiana Infantry