The 2nd Louisiana Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers recruited in Louisiana that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Breazeale's Cavalry Battalion was f
On 14 January 1863, the regiment tried and failed to save the Confederate gunboat Cotton.
Richard Taylor
Battle of Georgia Landing
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The Battle of Georgia Landing or Battle of Labadieville was fought between a Union Army force led by Brigadier General Godfrey Weitzel and a Confederate States Army force commanded by Brigadier Genera
2nd Louisiana Cavalry Regiment
…September 1862 to form a regiment. It served for the entire war west of the Mississippi River in the Trans-Mississippi Department. The regiment fought at Georgia Landing, Fort Bisland, Irish Bend, and Brashear City in 1863 and Henderson's Hill and Mansfield in 1864. Afterward, the regiment fought in minor skirmishes…
Lafourche campaign, October 1862: Weitzel's main column moved south from Donaldsonville down Bayou Lafourche. Thomas' column moved west from New Orleans along the railroad. Buchanan's gunboats entered the Atchafalaya River at lower left.
Godfrey Weitzel
Alfred Mouton
Part of the 13th Connecticut Infantry