Pointe Coupee Artillery
military unit
The Pointe Coupee Artillery was a Confederate Louisiana artillery unit in the American Civil War made up primarily of men from the parishes of Pointe Coupee, East Baton Rouge, Livingston and other surrounding parishes as well as a large number of men from New Orleans.
History
Popular and influential Mexican war veteran and Rev. Richard A. Stewart of Pointe Coupee Parish began recruiting men in the spring of 1861 eventually forming what would soon become Co A of the Pointe Coupee Artillery. These men received more than adequate training in Baton Rouge by experienced officers of the pre war Donaldsonville Canonniers (Louisiana) of Ascension Parish one of whom transferred to Capt. Stewart's Pointe Coupee Artillery. He assured, they were the first Confederate light artillery to reach the Mississippi River stronghold at Columbus, Ky. as they began their four years of service in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. They went off to war fully equipped with six smoothbore cannon and picked up in Memphis, Tennessee an additional six Confederate manufactured 6 pounder Parrott rifles. Stewart assured his men were equipped with the finest cannon, caissons, limbers, horses, and ordnance available as they were transported from Baton Rouge to the scene of conflict with plenty of trained men to operate them. In October 1861, many men from New Orleans, then serving in the Watson Battery of New Orleans, transferred to the Pointe Coupee Artillery at Columbus, Kentucky.
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