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John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 13: (search)
, with a 4-gun battery, were ordered to Monroe. Mouton's brigade was encamped near Alexandria; Polignac had headquarters on the Ouachita; Walker's division lay at Marksville, with three companies of low this secret de Polichinelle. Taylor, warned by it of the re-buzzing of Banks' bee, hastened Polignac, on March 7th, to Alexandria—thence with Mouton to the Boeuf, twenty-five miles south. HarrisoWith Taylor, it was to draw his army within closer lines, nearer Shreveport than Alexandria. Polignac's brigade, and the Louisiana brigade under Colonel Gray, were soon united in a division, the cove point on the river was evidently Harrisonburg— the Confederate headquarters under Brig.-Gen. Camille J. Polignac. Brigadier-General Polignac (Prince Camille de Polignac) was a gallant young FrenBrigadier-General Polignac (Prince Camille de Polignac) was a gallant young Frenchman, as devoted to the cause of the Confederacy as he had been, nay, as he still is, to the Bourbon Lilies Polignac had lately joined Taylor's army and had been put in command of a brigade of Texas
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ouisiana brigade in Louisiana. In command of his own and Polignac's brigade, one of the two infantry divisions in General Tof Louisiana. Major-General Camille Armand Jules Marie Polignac was born in France Major-General Camille Armand Jules Marie Polignac was born in France, February 6, 1832. He bore the title of Count de Polignac and was a descendant of the ducCount de Polignac and was a descendant of the duchess of that name who was a favorite of Marie Antoinette. At the beginning of the civil war he came to America and offered ha special order, which said: The dispositions made by General Polignac were excellent and were nobly sustained by his commanllant Polignac pressed stubbornly on. On June 13, 1864, Polignac was commissioned major-general. He continued in command mbled it was assigned to the division of Gen. Camille J. Polignac. This division he was in charge of after General PolignaGeneral Polignac went to Europe, and Gen. Kirby Smith referred to him as an able division commander. Brigadier-General Zebulon York B