• The Chalmette Regiment was a regiment of the Louisiana Militia consisting of foreign volunteers called into Confederate service in the American Civil...
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    Chalmette (/ʃælˈmɛt/ shal-MET) is a census-designated place (CDP) in, and the parish seat of, St. Bernard Parish in southeastern Louisiana, United States...
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    Among the Civil War dead interred at Chalmette are members of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, the only regiment from Pennsylvania involved in the...
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    Army during the American Civil War. He was appointed to colonel of Chalmette Regiment, mainly made of Scandinavian immigrants from the Louisiana State Militia...
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    southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans, in the current suburb of Chalmette, Louisiana. The battle was the climax of the five-month Gulf Campaign...
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  • Assumption Regiment, Militia Beauregard Regiment, Militia Cazadores Espanoles Regiment, Militia Chalmette Regiment, Militia Claiborne Regiment, Militia...
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  • the Civil War began, Szymański was recruited as a colonel for the Chalmette Regiment, formed mainly by Scandinavian immigrants from the Louisiana State...
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    fought its final battle at Spanish Fort. The regiment was again consolidated into the Chalmette Regiment shortly before surrendering in May 1865. List...
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    Military service Allegiance  Confederate States Branch/service  Confederate States Army Rank Captain Unit Chalmette Regiment Battles/wars American Civil War...
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    infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was originally designated as the 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (African...
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    an infantry regiment of United States Colored Troops from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was officially...
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    13th, and 16th Louisiana Infantry Regiments and the 30th and Austin's Battalions to form the Chalmette Regiment under Colonel Francis Campbell, which...
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    Pakeningham" despite his actually being General Pakenham. Two streets in Chalmette, Louisiana, the site of the Battle of New Orleans, are named for Pakenham...
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  • Camp Chalmette, Louisiana, until January 8, 1863. Occupation of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 17, 1862 (part of the regiment). Rest of the regiment moved...
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  • then renamed 5th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery, was an African-American regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It famously fought in...
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    District of Carrollton, La., June. At Plaquemine July. At Camp Parapet and Chalmette August, 1864. At Camp Parapet and in District of Carrollton until December...
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  • Corps, Department of the Gulf, to July 1863 (6 companies). Served duty at Chalmette, Louisiana, until February 15, 1863. Moved to Pensacola, Florida, February...
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    capture New Orleans in January 1815 and during the disastrous Battle of Chalmette Plain itself (lithographs of the battle wrongly depict them wearing kilts)...
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  • Martin de Lino de Chalmette, Attorney General of New France. Their son, Louis Xavier Martin de Lino de Chalmette founded Chalmette, Louisiana, and married...
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    (Lake Charles) Cajundome (Lafayette) Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center (Chalmette) Houma Terrebonne Civic Center (Houma) Ike Hamilton Expo Center (West...
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  • land in the Tennessee territory. Lauderdale joined Colonel John Coffee's regiment of Cavalry. The militia of Tennessee was led by General Andrew Jackson...
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  • Army and was enrolled as a 2nd lieutenant in the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment, serving as adjutant to Colonel Cadwallader C. Washburn. In June 1862,...
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    Orleans 1815. Oxford: Osprey. pp. 11, 25, 32. Roush, J. Fred (1958). Chalmette National Historical Park. National Park Service Historical Handbook Series...
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    headstone reads "Lyons Wakeman." She was buried with full military honors at Chalmette National Cemetery in New Orleans.: 50  Her letters and their record of...
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    cemetery, where 7,000 Union bodies were once interred before being moved to Chalmette National Cemetery. National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson...
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    against the United States Army. Footnotes The Gribeauval guns at the Chalmette National Battlefield are probably trophies captured during the Mexican–American...
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    Department of the Gulf, until January, 1863 and saw duty at Camps Parapet and Chalmette until March 1863. Their first true engagement with the rebels took place...
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    The 47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, officially the 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and sometimes referred to simply as the 47th Pennsylvania...
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    vehicle through floodwater. One of the ferries used on the Lower Algiers-Chalmette route across the Mississippi River broke free of its mooring during the...
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    marry Jean-Francois Martin de Lino de Chalmette, Attorney General of New France. She refused the marriage and Chalmette instead married her uncle's sister...
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