Pointe Coupee Artillery

Pointe Coupee Artillery
Pointe Coupee Artillery
Active	June 20, 1861 – May 4, 1865
Country	Confederate States of America
Allegiance	Confederate States Army
Branch	Field Artillery
Type	Battalion
Nicknames	Stewart's Pointe Coupee Artillery Battalion; Pointe Coupee Battery; Bouanchaud's Battery
Engagements	American Civil War Belmont; New Madrid; Island #10; Fort Pillow Bombardment; Second Corinth; Hatchie Bridge; Coffeeville; Yazoo Pass Exped.; Fort Pemberton; Deer Creek; Port Hudson Bombardment (March '63); Grierson's Raid; Snyder's Bluff; Vicksburg Campaign; Champion Hill; Big Black River Bridge; Vicksburg Siege; Jackson Siege; Meridian Campaign; Atlanta campaign; Bald Knob - checking/slowing action; Resaca; Adairsville - checking/slowing action; Calhoun - checking/slowing action; Cassville - skirmish; New Hope Church; Marietta; Kennesaw Mountain; Smyrna Camp Ground; Chattahoochee River - Howell's Ferry; Peachtree Creek - Moore's Mill; Atlanta Siege; Chattahoochee River Bridge; Lovejoy's Station; Allatoona Pass; Duck River-skirmish; Franklin - late arrival; Nashville 15th & 16th; Selma; West Point, Georgia, Fort Tyler; Girard, Ala./Columbus, Ga. (present); "and other skirmishes";
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Major Richard A. Stewart; Capt. Alcide Bouanchaud; Sr. 1st Lt. Charles L. Ilsley; Sr. 1st Lt. E. C. Legendre

The Pointe Coupee Artillery was a Confederate Louisiana artillery unit in the American Civil War made up primarily of men from the parishes of Pointe Coupee, East Baton Rouge, Livingston and other surrounding parishes as well as a large number of men from New Orleans.