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- ***This the right guy (Homer is in Claiborne, Louisiana:
GEORGE W. BELL, Sgt., Co. K, enlisted 15 Dec 1861 at New Orleans, LA.
Captured 8 Apr 1865 at Spanish Fort, AL. Lives, Homer, LA.
THOMAS BELL, Pvt., Co. G, enlisted 11 Dec 1861 at Camp Moore, LA. He
was sick 20 Aug 1863 then on the Sep/Oct 1863 company muster roll it
says he died at Marion Station, MS Hospital (no death date was given).
CONFEDERATE LOUISIANA TROOPS
19th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry
19th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in October, 1861, at Camp Moore, Louisiana. The men were raised in the parishes of Claiborne, Caddo, De Soto, and Vernon. It fought in the Battle of Shiloh, served in Mississippi, then was assigned to D.W. Adams' and Gibson's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. The regiment participated in the many campaigns of the army from Chickamauga to Atlanta, endured Hood's winter operations in Tennessee, and ended the war defending Mobile. It lost more than forty-five percent of the 350 engaged at Chickamauga, totalled 270 men and 157 arms in December, 1863, and during the Atlanta Campaign, May 14-28, reported 4 killed and 40 wounded. It had 201 fit for duty in November, 1864 and surrendered with the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. The field officers were Colonels Benjamin L. Hodge, R.W. Turner, and Wesley P. Winans; Lieutenant Colonels Loudon Butler, James M. Hollingsworth, and Hyder A. Kennedy; and Majors Camp Flournoy and Winfrey B. Scott.
Thomas Bell (First_Last)
Regiment Name 19 Louisiana Infantry
Side Confederate
Company G
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
Alternate Name
Notes
Film Number M378 roll 2
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RNT Family History
1841 - 
, d. 01 Jun 1900, , Claiborne, Louisiana