The Louisiana in the Civil War Message Board

Re: Capt. R.M. Boone
In Response To: Capt. R.M. Boone ()

Captain Boone was indeed the CO of Boone's Artillery, and at the time of the War had a plantation on the Atchafalaya River, a few miles south of Simmesport in what is now the community of Odenburg. The original article about this incident appeared in an old issue of the "Confederate Veteran," and the author, a woman, described Boone as "the handsomest man in Louisiana." His daughter lived into her 90s and died in 1953. I had the privilege of talking to her granddaughter a few years ago. Boone's daughter never knew him, as he died when she was very young, but it seems that before he died "the handsomest man in Louisiana" met a high-bred young filly (his first wife had died) who didn't take much to being a stepmother once her dashing husband went off to war and got himself killed. She would lock the little girl in a closet when she went off to town, and the slaves would let her out until they saw the "wicked stepmother" coming back, at which time they'd put the little girl back in the closet. After the war, she was adopted by the wicked stepmother's brother, who had served as an officer in Boone's Artillery.

At any rate, if the story about the leg isn't true, it should be. Semper Fi.

Messages In This Thread

Capt. R.M. Boone
Re: Capt. R.M. Boone
Re: Capt. R.M. Boone
Re: Capt. R.M. Boone
Re: Capt. R.M. Boone
Re: Capt. R.M. Boone
Re: Capt. R.M. Boone
Re: Capt. R.M. Boone
Re: Capt. R.M. Boone
Re: Capt. R.M. Boone