CHAPTER
CONTENTS
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Introduction
to the Project Acadians in Gray
Foreword
to the Narrative Acadians in Gray
Prologue: "The
Acadian of the Acadians"--Alexandre Mouton of Lafayette
Part
One:
The Acadians
One:
Genesis
of a People—the Acadians in Nova Scotia,
1604-1713
I.
Introduction
II.
The European Age of Exploitation
III.
France in the New World
IV.
The Founding of Acadia
V.
Early Struggles to Maintain the Colony
VI.
The English Seize Acadia
VII.
Razilly and d'Aulnay Resurrect the Colony
VIII.
The English Seize the Colony Again
IX.
Resumption of French Control and the First Acadian Census
X. The Founding of New
Settlements: Chignecto, Minas, Pigiguit, Cobeguit, Chepoudy,
Petitcoudiac, Memramcook
XI. The Acadians and the Indians
XII. The Acadians and Their Sun King
XIII. The Glorious Revolution and King William's War
XIV.
Queen Anne's War and the End
of French Rule in Acadia
Two:
Neutrality,
Exile,
and Refuge—the Acadians from Nova Scotia to Louisiana,
1713-1812
XV.
"French Neutrals"
XVI. The Flowering of Acadian Culture
XVII. King George's War and the Acadians
XVIII. A Tenuous Peace and the Coming of the Final French and Indian War
XIX. Le Grand Dérangement: Exile of the Acadians from the Maritimes
Region and Preservation of a People's Identity, 1755-85
XX. France in Louisiana, 1682-1766
XXI. La Nouvelle-Acadie: Assimilation in a New Land So Different from Old
Acadia
XXII. The Acadians and Slavery
XXIII. The Louisiana Purchase and the Beginning of "Americanization"
Three:
From
Acadian to Cajun—the Acadians in Louisiana,
1812-1861
Part
Two:
The Acadians in Gray
Four:
Secession
and War—The Convention, the Baton Rouge Arsenal, and the First Recruits,
January-July
1861:
1st
Regiment Heavy, Watson Battery Artillery; 1st (Dreux’s/Rightor's), 3rd, Orleans Guard Battalions,
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th Infantry; 1st Regiment Native
Guards Militia Infantry
Five:
First
Actions—Virginia,
July
1861:
1st
(Dreux’s/Rightor's) Battalion, 6th, 7th, 8th
Regiments Infantry
Six:
First
Actions—Missouri,
August-November
1861:
Pointe
Coupee, Watson Batteries Artillery; 3rd, 11th Regiments Infantry
Seven:
War
in Earnest in the West—Pea Ridge, Island No. 10, and Shiloh,
March-April
1862:
5th
Company, Washington Battalion, Companies
A and B, Pointe Coupee Battalion, Watson Battery Artillery;
1st Regiment Cavalry; Confederate Guards Response, Orleans Guard Battalions,
3rd, 4th, 11th,
16th, 18th,
Crescent Regiments Infantry
Eight:
Disaster
at Home—the Fall of New Orleans,
April
1862:
1st
Regiment
Heavy, 1st, 2nd Batteries Artillery; 26th Regiment Infantry; Chalmette, Orleans Guard, Sumter
Regiments Volunteer State Troops
Militia Infantry
Nine:
War
in Earnest in the East—Yorktown and the Peninsula,
April-June
1862:
Donaldsonville
Artillery; 1st
(Dreux’s/Rightor's) Battalion, 2nd, 10th Regiments Infantry
Ten:
Thunder
in the Valley—Jackson’s Shenandoah Campaign,
May-June
1862:
6th,
7th, 8th Regiments Infantry
Eleven:
The Seven Days,
June-July
1862:
Donaldsonville
Artillery; 3rd Battalion, 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th Regiments Infantry
Twelve:
Stalemate
in the West—Pass Manchac, Port Hudson, Baton Rouge, Mississippi, Kentucky,
and Tennessee,
May
1862-January 1863:
1st
Regiment Heavy,
Pointe Coupee Battalion, 5th Company, Washington Battalion, 2nd, Orleans Guard, Watson
Batteries Artillery; 1st Regiment Cavalry; 9th,
Confederate Guards Response, Orleans Guard Battalions, 3rd,
4th, 11th, 16th, 18th, 26th, 27th, 29th, 30th, Crescent, Miles' Legion Regiments Infantry
Thirteen:
Across
the Potomac and Back—Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, and
Fredericksburg,
August
1862-January 1863:
Donaldsonville
Artillery; 2nd,
6th,
7th, 8th, 10th Regiments Infantry
Fourteen:
War
Comes to the Bayous—The Lafourche Country, the First Teche Campaign, and
Plight of the Civilians in Acadian Country,
June
1862-April 1863:
1st,
5th Batteries Artillery; Grivot Rangers
Company, 2nd
Regiment Cavalry; Confederate Guards Response, Yellow Jackets Battalions, 18th,
Crescent Regiments Infantry; Lafourche, St. James Regiments Militia
Fifteen:
Struggle
along the Mississippi—the Vicksburg Campaign,
December
1862-May 1863:
1st
Regiment Heavy, Pointe Coupee Battalion,
2nd Battery Artillery; 30th
Battalion, 3rd, 4th, 26th, 27th, 29th, Miles' Legion Regiments
Infantry
Sixteen:
High
Tide in the East—Chancellorsville and Gettysburg,
April-July
1863:
Donaldsonville
Artillery; 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th Regiments Infantry
Seventeen:
High
Tide on the Mississippi—Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Jackson,
May-July
1863:
1st
Regiment Heavy, Pointe Coupee Battalion, 5th Company, Washington
Battalion, 2nd Battery Artillery; 9th, 30th Battalions, 3rd, 4th, 16th,
26th, 27th, 29th, Miles' Legion Regiments Infantry
Eighteen:
Thunder
in the Bayous—Jayhawkers, the Atchafalaya, the Lafourche, the Second Teche
Campaign, and More Trouble for the People of Acadian Country,
May-November
1863:
1st,
5th Batteries Artillery; 2nd Regiment Cavalry; Confederate Guards Response,
Yellow Jackets Battalions, 18th, Crescent Regiments Infantry
Nineteen:
Disaster
on the Rappahannock—Bristoe Station, Rappahannock Station, and
Mine Run,
September-December
1863:
Donaldsonville
Artillery; 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th Regiments Infantry
Twenty:
Acadian
Sideshows—Tennessee and Kentucky, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and
Mississippi,
July
1863-March 1864:
5th
Company, Washington Battalion, Company
A, Pointe Coupee Battalion, Orleans Guard Battery Artillery; 1st Regiment
Cavalry; 16th Regiment Infantry
Twenty-one:
Home
Soil Advantage—The Red River Campaign,
March-June
1864:
1st,
2nd, 5th, 6th, King's Batteries, Company D, Siege Train Battalion Heavy Artillery; Benjamin's
Company, 2nd,
3rd (Harrison’s), 7th Regiments
Cavalry; Consolidated 18th, Consolidated Crescent Regiments Infantry
Twenty-two:
From
the Wilderness to Cold Harbor via Spotsylvania,
May-June
1864:
Donaldsonville
Artillery; 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th Regiments Infantry
Twenty-three:
Back
to the Valley—Lynchburg to Cedar Creek,
June-October
1864:
2nd,
6th,
7th, 8th, 10th Regiments Infantry
Twenty-four:
Retreating
Through Georgia—the Atlanta Campaign,
May-September
1864:
5th
Company, Washington Battalion, Company
A, Pointe Coupee Battalion Artillery; 30th Battalion, 4th, 16th Regiments Infantry
Twenty-five:
Acadians
as POWs—the Federal Prison Camp
Experience:
Camp
Douglas, IL; Rock Island Barracks, IL; Camp Morton, IN; Camp Chase, OH; Camp
Nelson, KY; Johnson’s Island, OH; Elmira, NY; Fort Delaware, DE; Point
Lookout, MD; Old Capitol Prison, DC; Ship Island, MS
Twenty-six:
Final
Resistance in the East—Petersburg and Richmond,
June
1864-April 1865:
Donaldsonville
Artillery; 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th Regiments Infantry
Twenty-seven:
Final
Resistance in the West—Mississippi, East
Louisiana, Texas, Charleston, Franklin, Nashville, North Carolina, and Mobile,
May
1864-April 1865:
1st
Regiment Heavy, 5th Company, Washington Battalion, Company A, Pointe Coupee Battalion, Orleans Guard
Battery Artillery; Daly’s/Ragsdale’s Texas Battalion, 1st Regiment,
Ogden's Regiment Cavalry; 30th Battalion,
4th, 16th Regiments
Infantry
Twenty-eight:
Final
Resistance at Home—Southern Arkansas, East Texas, and Bayou Lafourche,
September
1864-April 1865:
1st,
2nd, 5th, 6th Batteries, Company D, Siege Train Battalion Heavy Artillery; Benjamin's Company, Daly's/Ragsdale's (Texas) Battalion, 2nd, 3rd (Harrison’s), 7th, 8th Regiments Cavalry; 3rd, Consolidated 18th, 26th, 27th, 29th,
Consolidated Crescent Regiments Infantry
Twenty-nine:
Surrender
and Parole—Appomattox, Gainesville, Meridian, the Trans-Mississippi, and
Home,
April-June
1865
Thirty:
Paying
the Ultimate Price as Acadians in Gray—KIA/MWIA/Died
in Service/MIA—
and
the Rewards of Surviving—Post-war Reunions, State Pensions, and
Fighting the Lost Cause
Epilogue:
Alexandre Mouton, denouement
Afterword
Appendices
Pioneers of Acadian
Families Who Settled in Louisiana
Acadian Marriages
Governors of Acadia/Nova Scotia, 1604-1763
Acadian Church Parishes before
Le
Grand Dérangement
Ships
of the Acadian Expulsion, 1755, 1758
Post-Dispersal
Acadian Communities in Present-day Canada, St.-Pierre, and Miquelon
Chronology of Acadian Arrivals in
Present-day Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s
Acadian
Immigrants to Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s
Alpha
List of Seven
Ships Passengers, 29 July - 17 December 1785
Acadian
Communities in Louisiana
Louisiana Settlement
Lists:
The
CORMIER-LANDRY-POIRIER-RICHARD Party to Cabanocé, 1764
The
BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil Party to Atakapas, 1765
Acadian
Immigrants to Opelousas, 1765
Acadian
Immigrants to Cabanocé, 1765
Acadian
Immigrants to Cabanocé, 1766
Acadian
Immigrants to St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, 1767
Acadian
Immigrants to San Luìs de Natchez, 1768
Acadians
Aboard English Ship Britannia, 1769
Acadian
Immigrants to St.-Gabriel/Manchac, 1785
Acadian
Immigrants to Baton Rouge/Manchac, 1785
Acadian
Immigrants to Lafourche des Chitimachas/Ascension, 1785
Acadian
Immigrants to Bayou des Écores, 1785
Acadian
Immigrants to St.-Jacques, 1785
Acadians
Immigrants to Atakapas, 1785
Acadian
Immigrants to Opelousas, 1785
Acadian
Immigrants to Nueva Gálvez/San Bernardo, 1785
The
Joseph GRAVOIS Party from Île St.-Pierre, 1788
Miscellaneous
Acadian Arrivals, 1760s-1780s
Acadian
Immigrants to Louisiana after 1788
Undetermined
Acadian Arrivals
Numbers
of Acadians Who Came to Louisiana, 1764-1788
Summary
of Acadian Immigration to Louisiana by Family and Year, 1764-early 1800s
Louisiana
Acadian Enumerations, 1765-1798
Governors
of Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1803
Governors
of the United States Territory of Orleans and the State of Louisiana,
1803-1865
Counties
and Parishes of South Louisiana, 1805-1861
Marriage Studies:
Non-Acadian
Families Who Intermarried with Acadian Refugees to Louisiana, 1761-1819
Acadian Endogamy/Exogamy in Louisiana, 1765-1861