I will first address what you posted. I appreciate your long answer, but your sources are not listed. What state and Confederate records do you refer to? Sort of a VERY broad source listing if you only say state or Confederate records. Additionally, your statement - "Local Defense Troops in Louisiana were volunteers that were foreign nationals subject to the authority of foreign consulates in New Orleans" is not what I see written in Lonn's "Foreigners in the Confederacy". On page 395 it states, "In Louisiana, aliens within the usual prescribed age limit of eighteen and forty-five with the usual exemptions were after sixty day's residence liable to militia service for five years. In accordance with this statuary provision, the governor issued a proclamation just prior to October 1, 1861, warning aliens that they must hold themselves ready to defend their hearths and to join a home guard company or lose the right to seek reparation for any loss incurred at the event of the enemy's reaching New Orleans."

If you look at the notes at the bottom of that page, you will see that Albin Rochereau of the Legion Francaise explains "to the members of the Legion that the counsel had no right or means to save his compatriots from the action of the law". I interpret that to mean that foreign nationals were NOT subject to the authority of foreign consulates as you state.

Alan,

I cannot share what I have right now on the Crescent Regiment as it is currently scheduled for use in a publication in the near future. I clearly do not want to use it on a web board and lose the impact of it coming out in publication. Let me just say that very many previously unused private not public sources have been found to augment the poor records that exist on it now. I notice that you keep saying that the age limit is 18 to 35 but I see it (in above note to Dan) as 18 to 45. Aso, as to this statement you made, "Whether or not a man belonged to a militia unit made no difference. Of course, if a man happened to claim citizenship in another country, he was exempt from the law. " Look at the reply to Dan to see that they (foreigners) were not exempt from the law. This particular information is part of a paper I presented at the LA Historical Association at the beginning of the year entitled, "Non-Native Sons: A Detailed Look at Two Foreigners Who Wore Gray for Louisiana in the Civil War." Concerning the information I referred Miss Dorothy to, I should have been more clear. It is the second source I cited to her that contains the lsiting of residences of the soldiers that was my main focus for her. As I stated in my previous post, I personally checked the pension and service records for her found nothing more than Booth provides. I stand by my statement and add that the information above would be what she already has.