Marie Alfred Coppens

Home State: Louisiana
Command Billet: Commanding Battalion
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Louisiana (Zouaves) Infantry Battalion

In the Antietam Campaign:
"With General McClellan closing on his scattered Corps faster than expected, Lee summoned his army together at Sharpsburg, Maryland. The Louisianians arrived on the afternoon of September 16th. The Zouaves were now under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Marie Alfred Coppens, Lt. Colonel Gaston Coppens had been placed in command of the 8th Florida Regiment."

The remainder of the War:
He retired from service on account of wounds on 17 November 1864.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Some service details from Bergeron 1. The photo above is from a tinted ambrotype sold by Cowan's at auction in 2004.

Notes

1 Bergeron, Jr., Arthur W., Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996, pg. 152 [AotW citation 1056]

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