Bruce:

The family spells the surname AUGUSTIN not AUGUSTINE.

I believe that J. Numa Augustin I is buried in St. Louis No. 3 on Esplanade Avenue. His grandson by the same name was killed in the fighting at San Juan Hill in July 1898 and was buried there according the newspaper reports. But I have not yet been able to identify the tomb.

Last trip to New Orleans (January 2005), I got into a "contretemps" with the office manager at St. Louis No. 3 who insisted she just didn't have time to work with me. In the considerable amount of time she spent "telling me off" we could have found the records! The year before, she had been quite helpful to me in finding the Augustin tombs in St. Louis No. 2, so I was a bit taken aback. My wife and sister-in-law and I fanned out and covered the front half of the cemetery without finding any tomb with "J. Numa Augustin" on it. There is, however, a small tomb on the center aisle near the front with the surname Augustin on it, but the only name listed is that of a female family member. That may be it since St. Louis No. 3 had only been open a few years when Colonel AUGUSTIN died in 1872.

Are you still collecting information for your new book of Confederate colonels? What can you tell me about Colonel Augustin's Civil War service after Shiloh?

Hugh