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Petition 20882932 Details
Location: St. Landry, Louisiana
Salutation: To the Honorable the Judge of the fifth judicial district in the western circuit division of the State of Louisiana, holding court in and for the Parish of Saint Landry (, )
Filing Court and Date: District, 1829-August-28
Ending Court and Date: District, 1829-December-4
General Petition Information
Abstract: Jean Miramond and Ludger Lastrapes, merchants formerly under the style of J. Miramond & Co., represent that Pierre Auguste and Denis Guillory, free men of color, are "jointly and severally indebted" to them in the sum of $55 "with legal interest." The petitioners claim that Auguste and Guillory issued a promissory note to ensure the payment of the debt but it "has long since been due." They pray that Auguste and Guillory be decreed to pay the debt plus interest and costs of this suit.
Result: granted
# of Petition Pages: 3
Related Documents: PAR #20882702 in the Guillory Series; PARs #20882723, #20882829, #20882939; Judgment, 4 December 1829
Pages of Related Documents: 1
People Associated with Petition 20882932
Slaves: 0
Free Persons of Color: 2
Defendants: 2
Petitioners: 2
Citation Information
Repository: St. Landry Parish Courthouse, Opelousas, Louisiana
Records of the Fifth Judicial District Court
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Document Number 1,534
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Transcribed?: No
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Record Created: 12/3/1996
Record Final Edited: 5/21/2003
Record Last Updated on: 4/12/2006 12:07:00 PM
Louisiana, unlike other southern states, primarily maintained separated white and black military organizations. A few Louisiana "free blacks", however, served in white Confederated units and received Confederate pensions. Among them were Charles Lutz, Jean Baptiste Pierre-Auguste, and Leufroy Pierre-Auguste of St. Landry Parish, who fought with the Confederate army troops at Shiloh,
Fredericksburg, and Vicksburg.
Confederate Research Sources
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Civil War Service:
Auguste, Lufoy Pierre. Pvt. Co. K. 16th La. Infty. En. Sept. 29th, 1861, Camp Moore, La. Present on All Rolls from Sept., 1861, to Oct., 1862. Roll for Nov. and Dec., 1862, ?Colored Man. Dropped from Roll by
Order of Col. Gober, Dec. 8th, 1862.?
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GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER-Leufroy Pierre-Auguste |
HOUSE OF LEUFROY PIERRE-AUGUSTE
CIVIL WAR HISTORY, Volume XXXII, No. 3
September, 1986
FREE MEN OF COLOR IN GREY
Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
Lufroy Pierre-Auguste was born in St. Landry Parish about 1830. He was the son of Pierre Pierre-Auguste and Gabriele Tessier, free persons of color. The 1860 census shows that Lufroy worked as a stockherder for Francois P. Pitre, Jr. Lufroy left his farm and joined Captain Daniel Gober's Big Cane rifles, which became Company K, Sixteenth Louisiana Infantry Regiment. The first two muster rolls of this company list him as a free man of color-the only such instance found in researching these men. None of the men discussed in this manuscript, except for Lutz and possibly Gabriel Grappe, pretended they were white. The other men in their units undoubtedly knew them as free blacks. The Sixteenth Louisiana fought in the battles of Shiloh, Farmington, and Perrysville. On December 8, 1862, while in camp at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Lufroy received a discharge from Confederate service. The reason given for his dicharge was that he was a "colored man." Apparently superior authorities had finally discovered that he was black and ordered his separation from the army. Lufroy went home, but he did become involved in one other incident before war's end. On May 13, 1865, he surprised two Jayhawkers near Opelousas. These men made up part of a band of outlaws, deserters, and draft dodgers who resisted Confederate authority. The two Jayhawkers fired at him, and he returned fire, hitting one of the men. Lufroy married in 1869, but no further information on his life after the war has come to light so far.
Francois P. Pitre Jr. 33 farmer, $2500 real estate, $9100 personal, wife Azeline C. Pitre 28, Francois 10, Estelle 9, Arthure 7, Azeline 5, Armant 3, Octave 2 months, Diomel S. Durio 16 stock holder, Lufroid P. Auguste 30 stock holder; slaves: male (black) 15 [p. 151/I11]
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