The 16th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry was organized at Camp Moore (Camp Moore Confederate Cemetery and Museum) on September 29, 1861, just north of Tangipahoa, Louisiana. It contained men from East Feliciana, Caddo, Livingston, Rapides, Bienville, St. Helena, and Avoyelles parishes of Louisiana.
The regiment moved to New Orleans and spent the winter at Camp Benjamin.
In February, 1962, the regiment went to Corinth, Mississippi, as part of General Daniel Ruggles' brigade.
Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) Tennessee
Corinth Campaign (April-June 1862) Mississippi
Farmington (May 9, 1862) Mississippi
Kentucky Campaign (August-October 1862). The regiment was part of General Daniel W. Adams' Louisiana brigade during the invasion of Kentucky
Perryville (October 8, 1862) Kentucky
The army went into winter quarters at Tullahoma, Tennessee.
At Shelbyville, Tennessee, General Braxton Bragg consolidated the 16th regiment into five companies and merged it with the 25th Louisiana Regiment on November 30, 1862 as the 16th and 25th Consolidated Regiment Infantry. The 25th Infantry Regiment was originally organized in April, 1862, with men from Madison, Morehouse, and Concordia parishes of Louisiana.
16th & 25th Consolidated Regiment, Louisiana Infantry Battles
Murfreesborough (December 31, 1862-January 3, 1863) Tennessee
Jackson Siege (July 10-17, 1863) Mississippi
Chickamauga (September 19-20, 1863) Georgia
Chattanooga Siege (September-November 1863) Tennessee
Chattanooga (November 23-25, 1863) Tennessee
Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863 Georgia/Tennessee
Spent the winter at Dalton, Georgia.
Atlanta Campaign (May-September 1864) Georgia
Rocky Face Ridge (Mill Creek) (May 8, 1864) Georgia
Resaca (May14-15, 1864) Georgia
New Hope Church (May 25-June 4, 1864) Georgia
Atlanta (July 22, 1864) Georgia
Ezra Church (outside Atlanta) (July 28, 1864) Georgia
Atlanta Siege (July-September 1864) Georgia
Jonesborough (August 31-September 1, 1864) Georgia
Florence (October 30, 1864) Alabama
Franklin (November 30, 1864) Tennessee
Nashville (December 15-16, 1864) Tennessee
On February 3, 1865, while at Mobile, Alabama, the regiment was broken up. The remnants of the 16th Louisiana were consolidated with the 1st Louisiana Regulars and 20th Louisiana as a new unit. The men of the 25th Louisiana were merged with those of the 4th Louisiana Battalion."
16th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry Battles Continued
Mobile, Alabama (March 17-April 12, 1865)
Spanish Fort Alabama (March 27-April 8, 1865). CS Brigadier General Randall L. Gibson evacuated the garrison, on March 8, 1865, after dark along a treadway only eighteen inches wide and about 1,200 yards long and fled to Mobile.
Following the evacuation of Mobile, Alabama the men of the 16th Louisiana were consolidated with the 13th Infantry Regiment and designated as the Chalmette Consolidated Infantry Regiment in April 1865.
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lees surrenders the army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant.
The 16th Louisiana surrendered with the Chalmette Consolidated Infantry Regiment at Gainesville, Alabama on May 8, 1865.
Daniel Hubbard Willis, Jr. was paroled at Meridian, Mississippi on May 14, 1865.
Sources:
Bergeron,
Arthur W., Jr. Guide to Louisiana Confederate
Military Units, 1861-1865.
Baton Rouge &
Source: Sifakis,
Stewart. Compendium of the
Confederate Armies:
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York: Facts On File, 1995.
Booth, Andrew B. Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands. 3 vols. Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co., 1984. E565.3L872.
Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 13: Louisiana. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot, 1988. 631 p. E484C65.1987v13. Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books, 1987.
Daniel H. Willis, Jr.'s obituary: Alexandria Town Talk, 23 June 1900
Current, ed., Encyclopedia of the Confederacy
Wier, Jerry Johnson, Army of Tennessee Louisiana Division The Association and Tumulus, The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1999.
LOUISIANA HISTORY, the journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, vol. 28, pp. 245-262 and vol. 36, pp. 389-411.
Also see http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm Film Number M378 roll 31 The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration and National Park Service.