Numbers 95. Reports of Major General Richard Taylor, C. S. Army, commanding District of West Louisiana.*
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST LOUISIANA, Shreveport, April 18, 1864.

. . . . . I ordered Mouton to open the attack from the left. The charge made by Mouton across the open was magnificent. With his little division, consisting of his own and Polignac's brigades, the field was crossed under a murderous fire of artillery and musketry, the wood was reached, and our little line sprang with a yell on the foe. In this charge General Mouton, commanding division, fell. Colonel Armant, of the Eighteenth Louisiana; Colonel Beard, of the Crescent Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, commanding Twenty-eight Louisiana; Lieutenant-Colonel Noble, Seventeenth Texas; Major Canfield, of the Crescent Regiment, were killed, and Lieutenant-Colonel, of the Crescent Regiment, were killed, and Lieutenant-Colonel Clack, Crescent Regiment, dangerously wounded. Seven standard-bearers fell one after another with the flag of the crescent Regiment.. . . . .

R. Taylor, Major-General, Commanding
OR V34, Pt. 1, p. 564