...Flag design is based on a small torn section of the regimental battle flag which is on display in the Confederate Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana. May 19, 1865. When the 18th Regiment was disbanded the flag was torn into ten pieces and a piece given to each of the ten company commanders. (Placement of Battle Inscriptions is specualtive and based on similar Confederate battle flags of the same period.)

 

 

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Moss, Alexander, Sergt., Co. G.,Cons. 18th Regt. and Yellow Jacket Battn. La. Inf. Rolls Jan. and Feb., 1864 (only Roll on file), En. Sept. 15, 1862, Camp Pratt. Promoted from Pvt. to 2nd Sergt., Jan. 1, 1864. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured Bayou Teche, La., April 14, 1863. Exchanged New Orleans, La., -, 1863.

ALEXANDER MOSS, ABBEVILLE...Alexander Moss was born in Lafayette parish, near Royville, in 1831. He is the son of Joseph and Clara, (Thibodeaux) Moss. Joseph Moss was a native of Georgia, and came to Louisiana with his parents when young, locating in Vermilion parish, they being among the pioneer settlers of this section. Joseph Moss afterward located in Lafayette parish, where he became a prosperous planter. He died in the prime of his life.

The subject of this sketch is the second of ten children, of whom A. J. Moss, of Lafayette, whose sketch appears in another part of this work, is a brother. Young Alexander worked on his father's plantation and attended school alternately until he attained his majority. At his father's death he removed to Vermilion parish and assumed charge of the sugar plantation which his father possessed in that parish. He located permanently in his present place of residence in 1868, where he owns two hundred and forty acres of land under the best of improvement, the principal product of his plantation being sugar cane. Mr. Moss has also a fine orange grove of from one thousand to twelve hundred trees, with a variety of other fruits. He was a soldier in the late war, having enlisted in 1862, in Fournet's Yellow Jacket Battalion, afterward being transferred to the Eighteenth Louisiana. He participated in the battles at Bisland, Yellow Bayou and in other minor engagements. At Bisland he was taken prisoner, and detained a short while at New Orleans. Mr. Moss was united in marriage, in 1861, with Miss Martha Rice, daughter of Samuel R. Rice. They are the parents of eight living children, seven daughters and a son. Our subject is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and is an ardent democrat.

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The following is a biography on the brother of Alexander Moss, Anderson J. Moss who served in the 26th Louisiana Infantry Regiment at Vicksburg.

 

Anderson J. Moss

Capt., A. C. S.
Assistant Commissary of Subsistence

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Moss, Anderson J., A. C. S. Co. -, 26th La. Inf. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured and paroled at Vicksburg, Miss., July 4, 1863. On List dated Hdqrs. Allen's Brig., Shreveport, La., March 29, 1864, Reported in camp for exchange at Alexandria, La., before April 1. 1864.

A. J. MOSS, LAFAYETTE.--Anderson Joseph Moss is a native of Lafayette parish, born 1825. He is the son of Joseph H. and Claire (Thibodeaux) Moss. Joseph H. Moss was a native of Georgia, and came to Louisiana in 1810, when five years of age, with his father. He received his education in the schools of Lafayette parish, and became a successful planter, to which he devoted his whole attention. He had succeeded in accumulating quite a fortune at the time of his death in 1848. The mother of our subject died in 1889, at the age of eighty-two years. The grandfather of our subject, Nathaniel Moss, was a native of Virginia, and died in 1826, aged seventy-four years. A. J. Moss received his preparatory education in the schools of Louisiana, and later pursued a course at Center College, Danville, Kentucky. After leaving school he read law, but upon the death of his father it devolved upon him to manage the plantation, and he gave up his law studies. Early in life Mr. Moss became identified with public affairs. He was a member of the Legislature, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1852. From 1853 to 1860, he was in the custom house in New Orleans. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate States army, Company A, Twenty-sixth Louisiana Regiment. Shortly after entering the army he was appointed assistant commissary of subsistence, with rank of captain. In this capacity he served during the whole war. After the war he returned home completely broken up as regards finances. During the existence of that office, Mr. Moss was nine years judge of Lafayette parish. He also for a number of years served as justice of the peace and notary public, and is now a leading member of the town council. For the past few years Judge Moss has been successfully engaged in the lumber trade at this place. He was married in 1856 to Miss Octavie Cornay, of St. Mary parish. They are parents of six living children, four sons and two daughters, viz. Dr. N. P., of Lafayette ; C. P., merchant, New Iberia; F. E., merchant, Lafayette ; James A., cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, West Point; Emily and Adah.