who produced soldiers for the Southern Confederacy
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For an explanation of how families qualify for this list, please see the Progress Report.
The links below take you to individuals in the Unit Rosters. Click on the surname and it will take you to the Index of Names from which you can access an individual's service record(s) ... most of which are still incomplete.
Click here for the names of individuals from Cajun families who are not in units highlighted in this study.
Click here for a list of Louisiana soldiers from the CSRC Index whose surnames are not found in this list of Cajun families.
These are the families who were exiled from Acadia, found refuge in Louisiana, and created the Cajun culture.
(The families highlighted in yellow are the ones who produced Acadians in Gray; the families not highlighted in yellow and have no links attached to their names produced no Acadians in Gray; the families who are not highlighted in yellow but do have links attached to their names did produce soldiers for the Southern Confederacy, but, because the Acadian branch of these families produced no surviving male lines in Louisiana, the members of this family in the Bayou State are not of Acadian ancestry and are linked to the non-Acadian section of this page.)100/156
These are the families who assimilated with the Acadian exiles in Louisiana, helped create the Cajun culture, and produced soldiers for the Southern Confederacy.
Symbols:
# = non-Acadian families who came to LA with the Acadians in 1785 [see 7 Ships Passenger List] 652
These family names can be found in greater Acadia from the 1630s to the 1750s. However, members of these Acadian families did not emigrate to Louisiana,
or members of these families did emigrate to Louisiana but produced no surviving male lines there, hence the link from the list of "Acadian/Cajun surnames" above.
These are Louisiana families whose members did not live in greater Acadia between the 1630s and the 1750s. Members of these families may consider themselves to be "Cajun" because of intermarriage or cultural affinity with Louisiana Acadians. In some cases, however, members of these families to this day refuse to be called "Cajun."
Symbols:
# = non-Acadian families who came to LA with the Acadians in 1785 [see 7 Ships Passenger List] * = " cultural Cajuns" [see Progress Report for definition]
Click here for the names of Louisiana soldiers from Cajun families who are not in units highlighted in this study.Click here for a list of Louisiana soldiers from the CSRC Index whose surnames are not found in this list of Cajun families [incomplete].
The crossed flags below take you to the Family Histories section, which is far from complete.
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