Excerpt from The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol. 8: Brief Biographies of Authors, Administrators, Clergymen, Commanders, Editors, Engineers, Jurists, Merchants, Officials, Philanthropists, Scientists, Statesmen, and Others Who Are Making American History Crescent and Terrebonne regiments, Ralston's and Semmes's batteries, and the 2d Louisiana. Cavalry, 1392 strong, and at Georgia Landing, Oct. 27, 1862, when pressed by General Weitzel, evacuated the place, burned the bridges and occupied the Teche country for the winter of 1862 - 63. He was with Gen. E. Kirby Smith's trans-mississippi army in command of the 2d division of lieut.-gen. Richard Taylor's Army of West Louisiana in opposing the advance of Gen eral Bank up the Red River, being at Carroll Jones's plantation on March 18, at Natchitoches on the 22d and at Sabine Cross Roads on April 5, where the line of battle was formed on the morn ing of the 8th. On the first onslaught made by the Federal force he succeeded in driving in the cavalry and struck the head of Franklin's troops, and without waiting for orders from General Taylor' drove Franklin back. This movement Opened the battle of Mansfield, which Taylor pushed to a complete success, but Mouton fell at the first onset. He died on the field, Mansfield, La April 8, 1864. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.