Looking to correspond with anyone doing research on Texas cavalry in Louisiana on "Battle of Salisbury Bridge." Apparently, when Banks was at Grand Ecore he sent two companies of infantry and possibly a troop of cavalry to destroy the Drake Salt Works (where salt was being made at the licks for the Confederacy.) According to oral sources, a Texas cavalry troop was guarding the men making salt and they intercepted the Union soldiers at Salisbury Bridge (across the Saline Bayou.) This took place on April 16, 1864. According to the sources, the dead were buried at Old Harmony nearby. The only marked graves are John W. Bundrick Co. K 28 LA Inf. and T. J. Brown Co. C Chisum's Texas Cav. It is unknown whether Brown died in the skirmish since his wife, Mary S., is buried beside him (d. 1906.) He may have moved there after the War. Source is Harley Bozeman quoting Oswald Martin's father J. H. ("Jim") Martin. This is Winn Parish.

Am looking for any newspaper sources or regimental histories that might establish what happened in the skirmish and who was there. . .

Will respond on weekends or write me directly.

Marcy Frantom