Jean Jacques Alexandre Alfred Mouton
Brigadier General J. J. A. Alfred Mouton, colonel of the 18th Louisiana Infantry and brigade and division commander in the Department of Western Louisiana, wounded in action at Shiloh, April 7, 1862, and killed in action at Mansfield, April 8, 1864. This portrait can be seen in the Alexandre Mouton House, Lafayette, LA
photo courtesy of Kirby Broussard, a descendant of the Moutons
The monument and gravesite of General Alfred Mouton in St. John Catholic Cemetery, Lafayette, LA
photos by the author, summer of 2002
The imposing statue of General Mouton, which one stood in front of the Lafayette Parish courthouse, Lafayette, LA, for nearly a century, was erected by the Louisiana Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy on the 58th anniversary of his death. It was removed from the courthouse grounds by the "woke police" in July 2021 and re-erected at the Confederate cemetery at Camp Moore near Kentwood, Tangipahoa Parish, where the general's South Louisiana regiment was organized in October 1861.
(Note the historical error on the side of the statue's base pictured above. The Battle of Pittsburg Landing is another name for the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, which was fought in April 1862, not April 1863.)
photos by the author, summer of 2003
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updated January 2023