I stumbled on your site while looking for biographical information on James DeBerty Trudeau of Louisiana. Edward Livingston Trudeau, eminent T.B. doctor in Saranac Lake, New York, was his son. JDT was divorced from his wife when ELT was a young boy; the father, a medical doctor, returned to Lousiana from New York with his daughter, and his son never saw him again.

From ELT's Autobiography: "I can remember little about my father. I know that during the great Civil War he was an officer in the Southern Army, and for a time had charge of Island No. 10; and that he was wounded and brought back to New Orleans, where he partly recovered and practised his profession for a few years before his death. Before the War he married a Miss Marie Bringier, who belonged to a well-known New Orleans family, and who survived him, dying in Baltimore in 1909."

ELT spent the Civil War years in Paris with his mother and her parents, where he hit Mr. Slidell, the Confederate representative to the government of France, with his slingshot!

The "Griffith" portrait certainly resembles ELT. I would appreciate any leads to further information on General Trudeau.

Mary