18th Louisiana Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

• October 5, 1861 - Organization started with 7 companies at Camp Moore, near New Orleans
  • October 5, 1861 - Mustered into Confederate Service
• January 1862 - Organization completed at Camp Benjamin
• March 1, 1862 - Pittsburg Landing
• March 9-14, 1862 - Purdy's Expedition and Crump's Landing operations [detachment]]
• April 6-7, 1862 - Shiloh
• April-June 1862 - Corinth Campaign
• October 27, 1862 - Georgia Landing, near Labadieville
• January 14, 1863 - Bayou Teche
• April 13-14, 1863 - Fort Bisland
• November 14, 1863 - Consolidated at Simmesport with the 10th Louisiana Infantry Battalion and re-designated 18th (Consolidated) Louisiana Infantry

DESIGNATIONS

• Department #1 (October 1861-February 1862)
• Department #2 / Ruggles' Brigade (February-March 1862)
• Army of the Mississippi / 2nd Grand Division / 1st Corps / Mouton's Brigade (March 1862)
• Department #2 / Army of the Mississippi / 2nd Corps / Ruggles' Division / Pond's Brigade (March-April 1862)
• Department #2 / Army of the Mississippi / 2nd Corps / Cheatham's/Ruggles' Division / Mouton's Brigade (April-June 1862)
• Department #2 / Army of the Mississippi / 2nd Corps / Mouton's/Reichard's Brigade (June-July 1862)
• Department #2 / Army of the Mississippi / Jones' Division / Reichard's Brigade (July 1862)
• Department #2 / District of the Gulf (August-October 1862)
• Trans-Mississippi Department / District of West Louisiana / Mouton's Brigade (October 1862-November 1863)

Regimental Roster

• First Commander: J.J.A. Alfred Mouton (Colonel)
• Leopold L. Armant (Major, Colonel)
• Louis Bush (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
• Joseph Collins (Major)
• Joseph K. Gourdain (Major)
• Paul B. Leeds (Major)
• William Mouton (Major)
• Alfred Roman (Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)

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Legacy

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Sources

• Bergeron, Arthur W., (Jr.), ed., Reminiscences of Uncle Silas: The History of the Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry Regiment
• Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Louisiana. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 103-104)