CHAPTER
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
Anecdotes
and profiles of those Acadians in Gray who gave the last full measure of
devotion to the Confederate cause.
Here could be told the unusual story of the Aucoin boys of Assumption Parish
who served, and died, in Company B of the 1st Regiment Heavy
Artillery.
Is there a greater instance as this of death by disease in one family
belonging to one unit?
At least nine of them
succumbed to disease near Vicksburg in the fall and winter of 1862-63—all
from the same company!
Copyright (c)
2001 Steven A.
Cormier