Battle Flag of the 22nd Louisiana Infantry

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The 22nd Louisiana Infantry was organized at Enterprise, Mississippi, on January 26, 1864, from the remnants of the 3rd, 17th, 22nd (later 21st), 23rd (later 22nd), 26th, 27th, 29th, and 31st Louisiana regiments in the parole camp there. The new unit had 780 men on its rolls. On February 3, the regiment received orders to report to Mobile, Alabama. There the men garrisoned several redoubts and batteries around the city.

During the next few months, the men drilled as heavy artillerists and performed guard duty. The regiment moved to Pollard on May 22 to guard the railroad to Montgomery from Federal raids out of Pensacola. On July 22, the men moved to Pine Barrens Creek to meet such a raid, but the enemy retreated to Pensacola before any fighting could occur. The passage of the forts guarding the mouth of Mobile Bay by Admiral David G. Farragut’s Union fleet resulted in orders on August 4 for the regiment to return to Mobile. Again, the men occupied various batteries in the city’s defenses. Later in the fall, the regiment moved to the Eastern Shore defenses. Two companies garrisoned Battery Huger on the Appalachee River, and three companies held nearby Battery Tracy on the Blakely River. Four companies made up part of the Spanish Fort defenses. The latter companies participated in the defense of Spanish Fort, March 27-April 8, 1865. The men at Battery Huger and Battery Tracy fired their guns in support of the earthworks at Spanish Fort. When the latter were evacuated, the men of the regiment united at Huger and Tracy until they too were evacuated, on April 12. The regiment moved to Meridian, Mississippi, and was surrendered there on May 8.

GUIDE TO LOUISIANA CONFEDERATE MILITARY UNITS 1861– 1865 , Arthur Bergeron, LSU Press

Information in the Ken Legendre, Confederate Flag Research files, Legendre includes names of the color-bearers of the flag.

Color-Bearers Included:

John Davis, Co. B. Guidon, appears on list not dated.

1. Gaillard, Co. B. Guidon, appears on list not dated.

August Delpit, Co. C, enlisted 2-23-62. “Left sick at Vicksburg” CIA (Captured in Action) Vicksburg 7-4-63. Absent sick from January. 1864 through August 1864. Postwar records indicate that ‘At Spanish Fort when the flag was shot down, he raced forward and replaced it under a heavy fire.”

(L.H.A. 55T Bd. Vol. 6 Page 392) Paroled on 5-13-1865 at Meridian, Mississippi.

Victor Grimer, Company E, enlisted 6-15-63. CIA at Vicksburg 07-04-1863. Present at “exchange” camp in Enterprise, Ms. December 9, 1863. Appointed Color Sgt on March 4, 1864. September and October 1864 “sick in hospital in Mobile.” Paroled as T. Grimer, Color-Sgt. At Meridian May 10, 1865.

Alexander Bonner, Co. D. 21st La. (Patton) Infantry, enlisted Jume 18, 1861. CIA at Vicksburg om July 4, 1863. Roll dated October 21, 1863 “Detached to Ordnance Dept”. Roll for July/ August 1864 “Present as 1st Sgt”. Roll for Sept./Oct. 1864 “Mounting guns at Spanish Fort”. Paroled at Meridian, Mississippi on May 10, 1865 as “Color bearer”.

Patrick H. Savage, Co. A, Color-Sgt on June 7, 1861. Enlisted June 19, 1861. Present to August , 1862. Sick furlough Sept. and Oct. 1862. Present Dec. , 1862to February, 1863. CIA July 4, 1863 at Vicksburg. Listed as deserter in

November , 1863. Listed in Booth in the 21st. La. Inf. No records indicate the 22nd Infantry.

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