CHAPTER 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

 

The first major actions in the Western and Trans-Mississippi theatres involving Acadians units, with emphasis on the blood bath at Shiloh. 

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