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Yellow Bayou

The Battle of Yellow Bayou was a particularly bloody battle fought at the end of the Red River Campaign. Most of the CS casualties were Texas cavalry, and most of the Confederate dead were buried in the graveyard of a brick Methodist Episcopal South church a few miles from the battlefied in what is now the community of Hamburg, LA. The church was destroyed in the 1880's, and in the 1930's the cemetery was bulldozed and buried under a levee. The Corps of Engineers has recently began an investigation of this situation, and it is possible a marker for the cemetery may result. I have a fairly good list of CS dead for the battle, but it is no doubt incomplete. If anyone can provide me with names of Confederate dead from Yellow Bayou, I will make sure that they are included on any marker that does go up at the cemetery. Your help in this matter will be greatly appreciated, certainly by me and maybe by some dead soldiers as well.