Alfred Mouton

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Confederate Army general (1829-1864)

United StatesLived 1829 to 1864 · aged 35

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Jean-Jacques-Alfred-Alexandre "Alfred" Mouton was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Although trained at West Point, he soon resigned his commission to become a civil engineer and then a sugarcane grower, while also serving as a brigadier general in the Louisiana State Militia.

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General Alfred Mouton Monument at the Mansfield State Historic Site in Mansfield, Louisiana; the inscription reads: "Here Gen. Mouton fell; here Prince de Polignac sprang to the head of the troops to take the fallen leader's place and bear them to victory." Mouton's grave was later moved to Lafayette, Louisiana.

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Lived 1829 to 1864 · aged 35

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