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Military Record of Louisiana : Including Biographical and Historical Papers Relating to the Military Organizations of the State
author
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Bartlett, Napier.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807120782
print isbn13
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9780807120781
ebook isbn13
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9780585349114
language
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English
subject
Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories, United States--History--Civil war, 1861-1865--Regimental histories, Louisiana--Militia, United States--History--Civil war, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate, Louisiana--History--Civ
publication date
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1996
lcc
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E565.4.B293 1996eb
ddc
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973.7/463
subject
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Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories, United States--History--Civil war, 1861-1865--Regimental histories, Louisiana--Militia, United States--History--Civil war, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate, Louisiana--History--Civ
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Military Record of Louisiana
Including Biographical and Historical Papers Relating to the Military Organizations of the State
Napier Bartlett
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Copyright 1964, 1992 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Number: 6411967
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Counci on Library Resources.
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Published with the assistance of the Louisiana Civil War Centennial Commission
Sylvan Friedman, chairman
T. Harry Williams, vice-chairman
Elaine Ventress Johnson, secretary-treasurer
Rene Breaux
Nettie J. Fava
Jesse M. Knowles
Bryan J. Lehmann, Jr.
John Regard, ex officio
Gladys B. Shackelford
Frederic R. Swigart
O. W. (Bill) Welch, honorary
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FOREWORD
"It is probably the best Louisiana Civil War book your Commission could reprint," advised Palmer Bradley of Houston, noted collector of rare books about the Confederacy and authority on Confederate matters generally. He was talking about Napier Bartlett's Military Record of Louisiana, and because his judgment was so obviously correct the Louisiana Civil War Centennial Commission readily agreed to underwrite the cost of making the book again available to the reading public. Among students of the war the book has long been known as a valuable source, an interesting personal document, and an exceedingly rare item, so much so that in recent years secondhand copies have been about impossible to obtain.
Although the book has been well known, knowledge about its author is relatively scanty. He was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of a physician, and came to New Orleans to study at the University of Louisiana, where he graduated in 1858. He went back to Georgia but in 1860 returned to New Orleans, apparently intending to make the city his permanent home. The records list him variously as a public school teacher, a lawyer, and a journalist, and it is possible that he dabbled in all three professions at the same time.
Thus Bartlett was in Louisiana when the Civil War began. He immediately enlisted, on May 26, 1861, in the elite Washington Artillery, joining as a private and going up later to corporal. As a member of this unit, he traveled to Virginia, where he would spend his war career. He served in some of the principal battles in the Eastern theater, although at intervals he was detailed to special duties in the quartermaster's department at Richmond. He saw a great
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deal of the war at close range, and like so many sensitive young men of the time he wanted to write about what he had seen.
Apparently Bartlett had long felt an urge to write. At the conclusion of the war he returned to New Orleans and worked as a reporter for various newspapers. He finally purchased the Claiborne Advocate of Homer, and was editing that journal at the time of his death in 1876. In between journalistic ventures he tried his hand at writing fiction. Two volumes came from his penromantic and frothy productions that caused no more stir than they deserved. Much more satisfying to the author and more successful with the public was A Soldier's Story of the War, an engaging account of his own experiences. The reception accorded this work led Bartlett to prepare a larger one, the Military Record of Louisiana. In this book he incorporated his previous personal narrative and added a mass of information pertaining to the Washington Artillery and other units. The result was a volume combining autobiography and official data not readily available elsewhere. It was a contribution to both Louisiana and Confederate history, and as such it has had permanent significance and deserves to be read today.
The present volume is for the most part an exact reproduction of the book published in 1875 by L. Graham and Company, 73 Camp Street, New Orleans. In addition to this foreword, a table of contents has been added; photographs bound into the original volume have been omitted (they carried no identification), and a new title page has replaced the old. No attempt has been made to correct the typographical errors or to improve the unorthodox paging, which is evidence that although the various sections of the book were bound together they were printed separately.
In the preparation of this reprint edition two discrepancies
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