General Alfred Mouton (1829–1864)
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Marker Inscription
General Alfred Mouton 1829-1864. Confederate brigadier general from Lafayette who served in Shiloh, Lafourche, Teche, and Red River campaigns. Killed at Mansfield, leading Confederacy to its most important military victory west of the Mississippi.
Erected by Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism
The Story
Jean-Jacques Alfred Alexander Mouton (1829–1864) was a Lafayette-born Confederate brigadier general who fought through the western campaigns of the Civil War — Shiloh, Lafourche, the Bayou Teche, and the Red River. He was killed in 1864 at the Battle of Mansfield, a Confederate victory that halted the Union's Red River Campaign in Louisiana.
Why it matters
Mouton's career and death illuminate the fiercely contested Trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War, where the war's western battles shaped the fate of Louisiana.
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Related people
- · Alfred Mouton
Related events
- · Battle of Mansfield
- · Battle of Shiloh
- · Red River Campaign
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