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John Baptiste Murphey
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Private
Company I
4th Louisiana Cavalry
Confederate States
Civil War

Confederate Veteran (used by permission of The Flag Guys ®)


 John M. Murphey
John Baptiste Murphey
30 Aug 1843
5 Dec 1929

Confederate flag
   Louisiana

Contents

Military Record
Confederate Pension Application
Commanders
4th Louisiana Cavalry


Military Record
source: Civil War Soldiers And Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html

Confederate soldiers

John Baptiste Murphey (Murphy)

Regiment Name: 4th Louisiana Cavalry
Side: Confederate
Company:  I
Soldier's Rank In: Private
Soldier's Rank Out: Private

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Confederate Pension Application
source: Anderson County Confederate Pension Files
www.etgs.org/txanderson/ConfPens/ConfPens.htm

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Commanders
source:  Lost For The Cause: The Confederate Army In 1865 by Steven H. Newton
source: Some Notes On The Civil War Jayhawkers Of Confederate Louisiana
www.texasescapes.com/WTBlock/Civil-War-Jayhawkers-of-Confederate-Louisiana.htm
source: Civil War Soldiers And Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html
Confederate officer

Colonel A. J. McNeil
Colonel Louis Bush
Colonel Louis A. Bringier

Captain H. C. Eddington
1st Lieutenant Joseph S. Pugh
Sgt. Charles W. Elliott
Sgt. Columbus Pugh
Sgt. Robert Sewers

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4th Louisiana Cavalry
source: Friends of the Mansfield Battlefield
www.mansfieldbattlefield.org
source: Some Notes On The Civil War Jayhawkers Of Confederate Louisiana
www.texasescapes.com/WTBlock/Civil-War-Jayhawkers-of-Confederate-Louisiana.htm

Confederate soldier

March-May 1864 Red River campaign in northern Louisiana
April 8, 1864 Battle of Mansfield (LA) - last major Confederate victory of the Civil War
Feb 1864-
May 1865
Assigned duties of clearing out St. Landry and Rapides Parish of Carriere's Jayhawkers

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