Pvt. Louis Charles du Champ de Chastaigné

Company C "Attakapas Guards" of St. Martin Parish, 8th Louisiana Infantry, 1st Louisiana Brigade, Early's Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Residence St. Martinville, La.; 16 year old student. Enlisted 6/19/1861, Camp Moore, La., he was mustered into Captain A. DeBlanc's Company (subsequently Company C), 8th Louisiana Infantry. He was accompanied by his brothers (Captain) Charles and (later Ensign) Pierre Arthur, both of Company C. Present on all Rolls to March - June 1862 Roll; wounded in Battle of 1st Cold Harbor/Gaines' Mill, Va., during Seven Days' Battles; sent home on Medical Furlough. POW, Camp Fausse Point, LA. 11/23/1863; paroled 6/13/1865 at New Iberia, LA.

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DUCHAMP, Louis C. Pvt. Born 8 Feb 1842, Morris County, NJ. Son of Jean-Baptiste-Eugene DUCHAMP de Chaistaigne & Marie-Louise-Euphemie-Sophie-Mercepe MARTIN de la Martiniere of Martinique. Moved back to Martinique with his parents, 1845, age 3. Moved to Louisiana with his parents, 1850, age 8 [ship's log says 5], arrived New Orleans aboard ship Fernand from Martinique, 9 May 1850. Moved to St. Martin Parish with his parents, 1853, age 11. Educated in St. Martin Parish. A student & druggist, assisting his father, single, when he enlisted in Company C, 19 Jun 61, Camp Moore, age 19. Present Jul 61-30 Apr 62. WIA, Gaines' Mill, 28 Jun 62. Sent to LA on wounded furlough, Jul 62. Perrin says he "was detailed in the Trans-Mississippi department, as druggist, for a few months." Never returned to his unit. Listed as deserter, wounded furlough, 1862, on roll of 31 Aug-12 Nov 63. Enlisted in Company C, Consolidated 18th Regiment & Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry, no date or place given.

Louis was a single student at the time of his enlistment at Camp Moore on June 19th, 1861. He was severely wounded in the foot at Gaines Mill, Virginia on June 27th, 1862. Duchamp received a furlough to Louisiana and was detailed to be a druggist for the Confederacy in Minden, Louisiana. He was captured by Albert Lee's Calvary of the 19th Army Corps at Fausse Point, Louisiana on November 23rd, 1863 and later exchanged. Louis was paroled at New Iberia, Louisiana on June 13th, 1865. After the war, he married and began the operation of a very successful 500 acre sugar plantation named "Martinique Plantation". He was also head of the St. Martinville Board of Trade and a building and loan president. Mr. Duchamp lost his right arm in an accident in 1881

 Married, age 20, Marie Elmina DE BLANC, 20 Jan 1856, St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church, St. Martinville.  //  Booth, LA Confed. Soldiers, 2:691: Charles DUCHAMP.  CSRC, Index: Charles DUCHAMP.  Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 6:184:  Charles Louis DUCHAMP, Charles Louis DUCHAMP of Chataigne.  //  Brother of Arthur E. & Louis C. DUCHAMP of this company.