Compiled by Steven L. Driskell
Below is a sample of numerous publications for those researching individuals or units who fought for Louisiana in 1861-1865. If you are searching for an ancestor, I strongly suggest contacting the Sons of Confederate Veterans in the State of Louisiana.
Individual Publications
Government Publications
Journals & Periodicals
Bartlett, Napier
Military Record of Louisiana
Baton Rouge, 1964
Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr.
Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units 1861-1865
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1989
Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr. ed.
Reminiscences of Uncle Silas: The History of the Eighteenth Louisiana
Infantry Regiment
Baton Rouge, 1981
Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr., and Lawrence L. Hewitt
Boone's Louisiana Battery: A History and Roster
Baton Rouge, 1986
Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr., and Lawrence L. Hewitt
Miles' Legion: A History and Roster
Baton Rouge, 1983
Booth, Andrew B., compiler
Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate
Commands
3 vols.; New Orleans, 1920
Brooks, Thomas W. and Michael D. Jones
Lee's Foreign Legion: A History of the 10th Louisiana Infantry
Watts Printing, Gravenhurst, Ontario, 1995
Buckley, Cornelius M., S.J. trans.
A Frenchman, a Chaplain, a Rebel: The War Letters of Pere Louis-Hippolyte Gache, S.J.
Chicago, 1981
Casey, Powell A.
The Story of Camp Moore and Life at Camp Moore among the Volunteers
Bourque Printing, 1985
Casey, Powell A.
Civil War Campaigns and Engagements of the Washington Artillery
Baton Rouge, 1986
Dufour, Charles L.
Gentle Tiger: The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat
Baton Rouge, 1957
Eakin, Sue Lyles, and Morgan Peoples eds.
"In Defense of My Country ...": The Letters of a Shiloh Confederate
Soldier, Sergeant George Washington Bolton, and His Union Parish Neighbors
of the Twelfth Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers (1861-1864)
Bernice, 1983
Edmonds, David C.
The Guns of Port Hudson
2 vols.; The Acadiana Press, Lafayette, 1983
Gremillion, Nelson
Company G, 1st Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, C.S.A.: A Narrative
Lafayette, 1987
Hewitt, Lawrence L.
Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi
Jones, Terry L.
Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia
Baton Rouge, 1987
Jones, Terry L., ed.
The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1991
Richards, A.P.
The Saint Helena Rifles
Edited by Randall Shoemaker, Houston, 1968
Tunnard, Willie H., 1866
A Southern Record: The Story of the 3rd Louisiana Infantry, C.S.A.
Edited by Edwin C. Bearss, rpr. Dayton, Ohio, 1970
Winters, John D.
The Civil War in Louisiana
Baton Rouge, 1963
State of Louisiana
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers
Microcopy No. 320, 414 reels
U.S. War Department
War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies
130 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1880-1901
U.S. Navy Department
War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Navies
30 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1894-1922