You can procure his records through the service noted in the red enclosed box above.

Joseph Labin, enlisted in Company E, 30th Louisiana (Sumter) Infantry March 10,1862 at New Orleans, wounded at Baton Rouge August 5, 1862, recorded as 4th Corporal on the end of the year muster roll, reduced to ranks by order of Lt. Col. Shields June 30, 1863, admitted to Ross Hospital, Mobile, Alabama October 17,1863 with Int. Fever Quotd, recorded the end of October 1863 as sick in hospital at Marrietta, Georgia, appointed Corporal September 29,1864, last shown present on the February 28, 1865 muster roll

30th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry (Sumter Regiment)

30th Infantry Regiment [also called Sumter Regiment] was organized during the early spring of 1862, and contained men from Orleans, St. John the Baptist, and St. James parishes. Later reduced to a battalion. The unit served in Maxey's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and fought at Baton Rouge and Port Hudson where it was captured in July, 1863. Exchanged and reorganized, it was assigned to General Quarles', Page's, and Gibson's Brigade. The 30th fought with the Army of Tennessee in the Atlanta Campaign and Hood's Tennessee operations. Later it was ordered to Mobile. It contained 260 effectives in August, 1862, totalled 322 men and 281 arms in December, 1863, and had 161 fit for duty in November, 1864. Few surrendered with the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. The field officers were Colonel Gustavus A. Breaux, Lieutenant Colonels Chares J. Bell and Thomas Shields, and Major Arthur Picolet.