The Civil War in Acadiana: Suggested Reading


Battle of Irish Bend (detail), April 1863. Source: Harper’s Weekly VII (16 May 1863).

William Arceneaux, Acadian General: Alfred Mouton and the Civil War (Lafayette, La.: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1981).

Horace J. Beach, "The Last Moments of the Gunboat Diana, and Her Almost Final Resting Place," 2010, 49 pp. (PDF document), The Young-Sanders Center for the Study of the War between the States in Louisiana, Franklin, La., http://www.youngsanders.org/Thearticle.pdf.

Shane K. Bernard, "The Teche during Wartime," in Teche: A History of Louisiana's Most Famous Bayou (Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2016), pp. 78-94.

Carl A. Brasseaux, "Succession Crisis and the Civil War," in Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877 (Jackson, Miss: University Press of Mississippi, 1992), pp. 58-73.

David C. Edmonds, Yankee Autumn in Acadiana: A Narrative of the Great Texas Overland Expedition through Southwestern Louisiana, October-December 1863 (Lafayette, La.: The Acadiana Press, 1979).

Donald S. Frazier, Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi (Buffalo Gap, Tex.: State House Press, 2015).

________, Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863 (Buffalo Gap, Tex.: State House Press, 2009).

________, Thunder across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February 1863-May 1863 (Buffalo Gap, Tex.: State House Press, 2011).

Morris Raphael, The Battle in the Bayou Country (Detroit: Harlo, 1990).

________, Civil War Vignettes of Acadiana: A Sesquicentennial Commemorative, 1861-2011 (Sewanee, Tenn.: Border Press, 2011).

________, A Gunboat Named Diana (Detroit: Harlo, 1993).

Richard Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879).

John D. Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1991), pp. 212-14, 221-41.