Unfortunately, it was not Robert P. O'Bryan nor D. H. Quirk, who Mr. Parker looked up. For your records, O'Bryan's biography records can be found here. http://files.usgwarchives.org/la/calcasieu/bios/obryanro.txt

The reason I was looking this up is a Yankee picked a bible off of a dead Confederate at Pleasant Hill. It was inscribed to a man in the 12th GA. The only extended contact with the 12th Georgia by Louisiana troops would have been by a member of the 8th LA. Inf. as they were camped and fought together in the retreat from Front Royal on May 30, 1862. The owner of the bible was captured there but there are accounts of Confederates grabbing everything they could on the way out of town including knapsacks and haversacks left behind by the captured Georgians. The bible still existed as late as 1913 and I am trying to track it down as well.

Is it possible that some of the ex-8th LA members joined a variant of the Consolidated Crescent such as the 11th or 12th Battalions or the 10th Battalion of the 18th Consolidated Regt.? I know that there were Louisiana cavalry regiments invloved in the campaign as well, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Cav.; 1st and 2nd State Guards Battalion Cav. and 1st Trans-Mississippi Battalion.

I know that this is almost a needle in a haystack project, but the story of the bible is very interesting.