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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Official Website Ascension Parish (French: Paroisse de l'Ascension) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana . The parish was created in 1807. During the American Civil War , desertions had been of major concern to the Confederate States Army . Henry Watkins Allen , before he was governor, rep...
The Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church Cemetery in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, was laid out on a grid plan shortly after the church parish was founded in 1772. It contains several interesting raised tombs of stuccoed brick or stone featuring temple fronts of different styles, which date from the mid-nineteenth century. Donaldsonville Catholics Find a Grave Virtual T...
The First Battle of Donaldsonville took place on August 9, 1862, in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, as part of the Operations against Baton Rouge in the American Civil War. A number of incidents of artillery firing on Union steamers passing up and down the Mississippi River at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, influenced the U.S. Navy to undertake a retaliatory attack. Rear Adm. David G. Farragut sent t...
The Battle of Kock’s Plantation (also spelled Cox’s Plantation and Saint Emma Plantation ) was a battle fought July 12–13, 1863, in Ascension Parish, Louisiana , during the American Civil War . It was part of a campaign entitled "Taylor's Operations in West Louisiana (1863)." The Confederate States Army victory left them in control of much of the interior of the Acadiana region. Following the ...