Dr. Reed, the below link and information is taken directly from our "Our Authors" page, found in the navigation bar on the front page. If the man was in the 1st Battalion Louisiana Scouts (a Union unit) he would not have been elgible for a Confederate pension. He may have applied for one, but I doubt it since he would probably have been elgible for a Federal pension.

P.S.__ Louisiana Confederate pensions can also be found and copied at the Alexandria Historical & Genealogical Library at the corner of 5th and Washington St. in Alexandria. We hold our SCV camp meetings there the first Tuesday night of each month at 7:00 P.M. and would consider it an honor if you stopped by for a visit :-)

A Thrilling Narrative: The Memoir of a Southern Unionist
edited by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.

Book Description
A never-before-seen and firsthand look into the dissent of one Southern soldier.

This Civil War memoir of Capt. Dennis E. Haynes is both unique and rare. Not only did few southern unionists write of their experiences after the war, Haynes's is the only publication by a Louisiana unionist. Furthermore it is the only account by a member of the First Louisiana Battalion Cavalry Scouts, a unit that existed for less than three months and saw its only real action during the Red River Campaign of 1864.

Haynes's memoir is a historic collection of his wartime experiences as a unionist in the Confederate South. Among his writings, Haynes describes how he opposed the secession of Texas and thus became a hunted man. He also tells of his narrowing odyssey to reach Union troops in Louisiana. Every step of the way, Haynes provides details, sometimes graphic, of the harassment and cruelty he and many others like him suffered at the hands of his Confederate neighbors.

Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. is an archivist with the United States Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. and the author of a number of books, including "The Civil War in Louisiana."