Thanks for that Michael.

Joseph Husselbee came from Birmingham and was not Irish. He left his family behind in the UK and as far I as know didn't need to go to the US for economic reasons. There was plenty of work in Birmingham for a bricklayer at that time. So why he went to New Orleans which you say was blockaded, I have no idea.

He enlisted in Mar 1862 at New Orleans as a private in Company B. Does that mean he was conscripted?

I got his details from the Roster in the book "Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers".

I wonder if Joseph was avoiding the law and took passage to New Orleans on these cotton ships.

Regards

Graham