re: Civil War nicknames for SEC states..

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Interesting read on the Jayhawkers. One of my ancestors Joseph Carriere served in the 18th La while his nephew was the infamous Ozeme Carriere.

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Dude, no shite...



The notorious St. Landry Parish Jawhawker leader, Ozémé Carriere, who was killed towards the end of the war by the commander of the 7th Louisiana Cavalry, COL Louis A. Bringier.

LINK

...that's the very unit my g-g-grandfather, "Papa Joe" Girouard, was in. (He also happens to be Yvette Girouard's Great Grandfather.)

7th Regiment Volunteer Cavalry

Weird.

Was Ozeme a member of the Anti-Vigilantes in Vermilion Parish when they had their fort raided by the vigilantes? Ole Papa Joe was in on that raid too. Looks like your boy was a real badass.

On September 3, 1859 the vigilante wars were brought to an end
when Major St. Julien with a force of seven hundred men, armed with a
brass cannon which they had named “Betsy” and which had the capacity of
four-pound shot, attacked the eighteen hundred group of outlaws at their
fort. The attack was a tremendous success for the vigilantes. Most of the
outlaws fled never to return. Two hundred anti-vigilantes were captured,
and all but eighty were released on their pledge that they would leave the
area and never return. The “unfortunate eighty” were thrashed unmercifully
as an example to any would-be outlaw and released. The vast majority of
these outlaws fled to the west.

shite was wild back in the day.