Vermont Civil War

Battles
Bayou des Allemands
September 4, 1862

Vermont units present/engaged: 8th Infantry	Casualties Medal of Honor Readings Links Bibliography
Casualties Ailes, Sylvanus F., 35, Cambridge, VT; enl 10/3/61, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. A, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Bailey, Simon E., 18, Wolcott, VT; enl 12/19/61, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. E, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Brust, Louis, 36, Algiers, LA; enl 7/21/62, m/i 7/21/62, Pvt, Co. E, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Carroll, Charles R., 21, Newark, VT; enl 2/10/62, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. K, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Colgrove, John S., 27, Wolcott, VT; enl 12/12/61, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. E, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Corson, George J., 24, Unknown; enl 2/17/62, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. K, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Depathy, John F., 23, Randolph, VT; enl 12/10/61, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. G, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Gray, William R., 19, Greensboro, VT; enl 12/21/61, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. E, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Greenwood, Frederick, 21, Middlesex, VT; enl 12/8/61, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. E, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Leary, Joseph, 18, Derby, VT; enl 2/11/62, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. K, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Leimon, Auguste, 26, LaFourche, LA; enl 7/8/62, Pvt, Co. K, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 McGookin, Henry, 28, Belvidere, VT; enl 12/15/61, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. E, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 (Barney on cenotaph) Stone, Charles F., 20, Guildhall, VT; enl 1/18/62, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. K, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62 Thayer, James E., 35, Montpelier, VT; enl 10/1/61, m/i 2/18/62, SGT, Co. E, 8th VVI, kia, Bayou des Allemands, 9/4/62
Medal of Honor There were no Vermonters awarded the Medal of Honor as a result of this battle.
Readings On the 4th of September, another detachment of sixty men under Captain Clark, guarding a railroad train, was ambushed at Boutte Station by Confederate Colonel McWaters, with a force of 1,500 strong, and badly cut to pieces, losing fifteen killed and fatally hurt and twenty wounded, but the train escaped. The force which attacked this train now turned to Bayou Des Allemands station, which was held by a detachment under Captain Hall, and demanded its surrender, and Captain Hall, apprised of the enemy's strength, surrendered with Lieutenant Sargent, Co. E., Lieutenants Green and Mead, Co. G., and 137 men. Among our men surrendered here were seven Germans who enlisted from New Orleans, and being recognized, they were tried by a hasty Court Martial, condemned to death and shot on the pretext that they were deserters from the rebel army, which was entirely untrue, and a more dastardly murder was never committed. Pending.
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Legend: A.C. - Army Corps; AG - Adjutant General; AAG - Assistant Adjutant General; AAAG - Acting Assistant Adjutant General; AACS - Acting Assistant Commissary of Subsistence; AAQM - Acting Assistant Quartermaster; ACT - Acting; ADC - Aide-de-Camp; AIG - Assistant Inspector General; A&IG - Adjutant & Inspector General; AoP - Army of the Potomac; A.P.M. - Additional Paymaster; AQM - Assistant Quartermaster; BGen - Brigadier General; Bvt - brevet; enl - enlisted; CS - Commissary of Subsistence; com - commissioned; cred. - credited to; CS - Commissary of Subsistence; CSA - Confederate States Army; d/dis - died of disease; d/prison - died in prison*; d/svc - died in service (cause unknown); d/wds - died of wounds; dis/dsb - discharged for disability; dis/dishon - dishonorable discharge; dsrtd - deserted; ENG - Engineer (rank); GCM - general court martial; gsw - gunshot wound; Hosp. - Hospital; IG - Inspector General, kia - killed in action; MGen - Major General; m/i - mustered in; m/o - mustered out; Muscn - Musician; mwia - mortally wounded in action; n.d. - no date; nfr - no further record; P.M. - Paymaster; pow - taken prisoner; pr - promoted; prld - paroled; Rcrt - Recruit; red - reduced (demoted); resgd - resigned; RQM - Regimental Quartermaster; SOWD - Special Order, War Department; tr to/from - transferred to/from; USA - US Army; USCA - US Colored Artillery; USCI - US Colored Infantry; USSS - US Sharpshooters; USV - US Volunteers; VVLB - Vermont Volunteer Light Battery; VHAC - Vermont Heavy Artillery Company; VRC - Veterans Reserve Corps; VVC - Vermont Volunteer Cavalry; VVI - Vermont Volunteer Infantry; Wgnr - Wagoner; wdd - wounded
* NOTE: d/prison includes those who died on parole as a result of imprisonment

Source of roster information: basic information on enlistments, promotions, casualties, etc. comes from the 1892 "Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers," and additional information from a variety of sources, including cemetery, pension, census and other records as well as published biographies of individuals.

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Battles, Skirmishes and Encounters

There were no Vermonters awarded the Medal of Honor as a result of this battle.

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