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Jean Jacques Alexandre
Alfred Mouton,
Brigadier General, C.S.A.
is the son of
Alexander Mouton,
the 12th Governor of
Louisiana, and the brother-in-law of
Franklin K. Gardner,
a Major General, C.S.A. These three and their families are buried in
St.
John Cathedral Cemetery
in Lafayette. He is a United States Military Academy graduate, class of 1850. He resigned his commission shortly after graduation and began with "New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad" in the civil engineering field. He served as Brigadier General in the Louisiana State Militia before the Civil War. He was shot and killed in the Battle of Mansfield in an attack on the Union position and buried on the battlefield. In 1874, he was reinterred in Lafayette.
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St. John Cathedral Cemetery Lafayette, Louisiana
Entrance Gate
Jean Jacques Alexandre Alfred MOUTON 1829 - 1864 BRIGADIER GENERAL, C.S.A.
On Right Side: BATTLE OF SHILOH THE LAFOURCHE CAMPAIGN THE TECHE CAMPAIGN RED RIVER
On Back: MOUTON
On Left Side:
"ABOVE ALL, THE DEATH OF GENERAL RICHARD TAYLOR
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