Well, now you have really got my attention!! LSU and Fort Delaware!!

I checked the Fort Delaware Society database without any success. Looked for "von Larisch" and "van Larisch" and "Heinecke" as well as "Hienecke". Nothing.

I then did a quick check of the NPS Index to the CMSR using these variations and came across a record for "E. Heinecke" who was a Private enrolled in Company F, 35th Tennessee Infantry. This regiment was previously identified as the 5th Tennessee Regiment, Provisional Army, aka 1st Mountain Rifle Regiment according to the Crute's Unit History at the NPS website. This regiment was organized during September 1861 at Camp Smartt (yess!) near McMinnville, Tennessee. Its men were from the counties of Grundy, Warren, Van Buren, Cannon, Sequatchie, DeKalb, Hamilton, and Bledsoe.

Back to the Society database, we have just a handful of names from the 5th Tennessee Infantry or the 35th Tennessee Infantry and none come anywhere close to any variation of the surname your are researching. So again, nothing in the Fort Delaware records. That doesn’t prove absolutely that he wasn’t there, but -----. You might consider getting this Tennessee man's CMSR just to see if he was captured in 1862 and sent to Fort Delaware. Our 1862 records are almost non-existent. Some 300 Confederates refused to be exchanged in August 1862 and were allowed to take the Oath. They were released into Northern society to fend for themselves. Maybe that is how your "Edmund Hieneck" got to New York City. Just a thought and pure speculation on my part.

I thought the “E. Heinecke” name associated with the “1st Mounted Rifle Regiment” even though that was a Tennessee unit might be of interest. I have read of individual Louisianian’s eager to “see the elephant” going off to Tennessee in the very early days of the war to join up. However, I am with Art. All the rest sounds “made up” for newspaper consumption in the post-war era.

What is the connection to LSU history?

Hugh