U.S. African Brigade

The U.S. African Brigade in the District of Northeast Louisiana, Army of the Tennessee, included the Post of Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana, under Col. Isaac F. Shepard, with the 8th Louisiana under Col. Hiram Scofield, the 9th Louisiana under Col Herman Lieb, Maj. Erastus N. Owen, and Lieut. Col. Charles L. Paige, the 11th Louisiana under Col. Edwin W. Chamberlain and Lieut. Col. Cyrus Sears, the 13th Louisiana under Lieut. Herman Knoll, the 1st Mississippi under Lieut. Col. A. Watson Webber, and the 3rd Mississippi under Col. Richard H. Ballinger. In the attack on Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana, on June 7, 1863, casualties were 78 killed, 246 wounded, and 265 missing, for a total of 589. The brigade also included the Post of Goodrich’s Landing, Louisiana, under Col. William F. Wood, with the 1st Arkansas under Lieut. Col. James Campbell and the 10th Louisiana under Col. Frederick M. Crandal. Two companies of the 1st Arkansas, numbering 144 officers and men, were captured on June 29, 1863, at Mounds, near Goodrich’s Landing.

Delta, Louisiana · United States