CALCASIEU GREYS December 2018

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Unidentified Alabama Confederate
(Alabama Confederate Images)

NOVEMBER 2018 CALCASIEU GREYS

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Pvt. Japhet Collins, Co. D, 12th Texas Cavalry
Parson's Brigade
(4th Texas Dragoons)
In September 1861 Japhet Collins enlisted
in the 4th Texas Dragoons near Waxahachie. 
Collins is dressed in civilian clothing and 
wears a military-style forage cap. Like the 
other volunteers in his unit, he provided his 
own horse and supplied his own weapons. 
He is equipped with a British-made Bowie 
knife and a Model 1851 Colt "Navy" revolver.
His wartime service was mainly spent in 
Arkansas and Louisiana, and included 
scouting, raiding and stalking draft dodgers. 
Collins participated in numerous battles 
and engagements in the Louisiana bayou 
country. In February 1865 he returned to 
Texas with his regiment. He was paroled 
at Brenham in September 1865. - 
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President Jefferson Davis

CALCASIEU GREYS September 2018

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Unidentified Confedederate infantryman wearing George Seal
belt plate. (Library of Congress)

CALCASIEU GREYS, AUGUST, 2018

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Unidentified Louisiana Confederate officer, possibly a major
or lieutenant colonel. (Liljenquist Family Collection, Library
of Congress)

CALCASIEU GREYS JULY 2018

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Comapny D, 4th Texas Cavalry, Arizona Brigade in 1864, showing how some
Trans-Mississippi Confederates looked about the time of the Red River Campaign.
This unit helped recapture Brownsville, Texas in July 1864.

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Gen. Wm. A. Quarles - C.S.A. of Tenn. Wounded in Hood's charge at Franklin /
Ben Oppenheimer, Photograph Gallery, 56 Dauphin Street, Mobile.
(Library of Congress)

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Confederate P.O.W.s at Rock Island, Illinois prisoner of war camp.

CALCASIEU GREYS -- April 2018

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Colonel Eugene Waggaman of the 10th Louisiana Infantry Regiment
shown here when he was captain of Company I (Tirailleurs d' Orleans).

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Captain William Pratt Parks of Co. D, 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion and
1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Regiment in uniform
(Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress)

CALCASIEU GREYS, February 2018

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Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall Jackson, painting by
James Stuart, 1869.

CALCASIEU GREYS January, 2018

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Brigadier General States Rights Gist.
He  was born in 1831 in South Carolina, was a lawyer and
a brigadier general in the South Carolina Militia. During the
Secession Crisis of 1860-61, he  was an adviser to the governor
of South Carolina. During the War for Southern Independence,
he served as an adviser to Gen. Joseph Johnston at the First
Battle of Manassas; led a South Carolina brigade under Johnston
in the Vicksburg Campaign; and was with his brigade at the
Battle of Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign and was killed
in action at the Battle of Franklin, TN Nov. 30, 1864. Gist was
a brave, competent and reliable combat commander.