La Compagnia G
This page contains “historicized” profiles of the members of Company G of the 14th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Next to each birthplace you can see the flags of the pre-unification States in which Italy was divided before 1861 and from which Italics immigrants would come from to fight for the Confederacy.
COMPANY STAFF
Name: Niccolò Ferrari.
Date and place of birth: June 18th 1828; Verona, Austro-Hungary Empire.
Pre war profession: Volunteer in the K.K.Infanterieregiment nr.45 was badly wounded in Valeggio S/M battle in April 1848, after the war becomed a clerk. Sent to Louisiana for business, never come back to his country and open a company of cotton and agricoltural products trading in New Orleans.
Rank: 1st Lieutenant.
Non-commissioned officers
Name: Andrea Ferletic.
Date and place of birth: January 8th, 1838, Gorizia, Austrian-Hungarian Empire.
Pre war profession: Non commissioned officer in the United States Army.
Rank: Sergeant.
SOLDIERS
Name: Edoardo Restelli.
Date and place of birth: December 19th 1838; London, Great Britain.
Pre war profession: Innkeeper in New Orleans.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer
Name: Stephen Trotter.
Date and place of birth: December 9th, 1816; Trieste, Austo-Hungary Empire.
Pre war profession: Boatman, arrived in New Orelans in 1845 where he married Daisy Cutters Trotter.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Leonardo Troia.
Date and place of birth: September 17th, 1836; Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Pre war profession: Son of immigrans from Apulia (Kingdom of Two Sicilies), blacksmith apprendice.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Marco Mainetti.
Date and place of birth: October 12nd 1837, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Pre war profession: Apothecary apprentice.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Manuel Comar.
Date and place of birth: December 7th, 1833; Opelousas, Louisiana.
Pre war profession: farmer.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Gabriele Charles Comand
Date and place of birth: February 13th, 1840; Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Pre war profession: Son of immigrants from Friuli (Austro-Hungary Empire), landsman on captain Daniel J. Goos sawmill boat.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Riccardo Soldateschi.
Date and place of birth: May 6th, 1819; Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Pre war profession: Farmer.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Michele Corbelli.
Date and place of birth: February 12nd, 1825;
Pre war profession: –
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Andrea Maretti.
Date and place of birth: December 13rd, 1830; Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Pre war profession: Chemist, former Garibaldi volunteer, refugee to New Orleans, La, after collapse of Roman Republic.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Fritz Lukas Witzland.
Date and place of birth: August 21st 1833; Schondorf am Ammersee, Kingdom of Bavaria.
Pre war profession: Police officer at the 2nd Municipality of New Orleans dept.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Stefano Ciampoli.
Date and place of birth: July 26th 1822; Siena, Gran Ducy of Tuscany.
Pre war profession: Carpenter.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Silvio “Lothario” Soliman
Date and place of birth: ; Verona, Austro-Hungary Empire.
Pre war profession: Stonemason.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Antonio Gremese
Date and place of birth: September 24th 1803; Udine, Austro-Hungary Empire.
Pre war profession: former volunteer officer in Veneta Republic army 1848-1849, dealer of whisky and weapons.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Federico Fenu.
Date and place of birth: October 12th, 1836; Terranova, Kingdom of Sardinia.
Pre war profession: Fisherman and boatman.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: William Galantucci.
Date and place of birth: March 4tht, 1820; Rovereto, Austo-Hungary Empire.
Pre war profession: Accuntant.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Marco Marrozzini
Date and place of birth: June 24th 1806; Fermo, Pontifical States.
Pre war profession: Clerk.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Giorgio Gremese.
Date and place of birth: April 11st, 1831; Palmanova, Austro-Hungary Empire.
Pre war profession: University professor, purgued for Italian indipendece ideals, flees to New Orleans where his dissolute father had already emigrated
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
GARRISON DUTY
Name: Stefano Carli.
Date and place of birth: August 28th 1838; Milan, Austro-Hungary Empire.
Pre war profession: Blacksmith
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Antonio Sanò.
Date and place of birth: December 2nd 1811; Ferrara, Pontifical States.
Pre war profession: Schoolmaster
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Marco Cassol.
Date and place of birth: JMarch 27th, 1848; Feltre, Austro-Hungary Empire.
Pre war profession: coachman in New Orleans.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
Name: Antonio Sanò.
Date and place of birth: December 20th 1798; Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Pre war profession: Waterloo campaign with Napoleon’s Grand Armée 1815, Tuscan Volunteer in Italian first war of independence 1848, defence of Roman Republic 1849, School teacher and preceptor.
Rank: Private soldier, voluntee
Name: Nicola Cosentino.
Date and place of birth: October 13th 1819; Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Pre war profession: Musician.
Rank: Private soldier-medical Service, volunteer.
Name: Claudio Cassol.
Date and place of birth: June 11th 1821; Sudtirol, Austro-Hungary Empire.
Pre war profession: assigned to the train of artillery in the Austro-Hungary army, wonded in Custoza 1848, army wagoner and wonded in Solferino 1859, coachman in New Orleans.
Rank: Private soldier, volunteer.
CIVILIANS
Name: Monia Tonet.
Date and place of birth: March 19th, 1824, Belluno, Austrian- Hungarian Empire.
Pre war profession: Farmer.
Rank: Vivandière.
