Proud Confederate Soldier
Breaux, Gus A., Capt. Col. Co. G. I. F. 30th La. Infty. Roster dated March, 1865, Elected Col. March 1st, 1862. Remarks: Regt. reduced to Battn. of 7 companies Feb., 1863, by order of Sec. of War. No Col. allowed for Battn. Appears on Official Rolls of Paroled Officers, Paroled at Washington, La., June 16th, 1865.
Breaux, Gus A., Capt. Co. I. Confed. Grds. Regt. La. Militia. Appears on roll dated Nov. 23rd, 1861.
BREAUX, Gustave A., attorney, politician. Born, Vermilionville (present-day Lafayette), La., December 28, 1828. Son of Aurelien Breaux and Modeste Bernard. Education: Norwich University in Vermont, graduated 1847; Harvard University Law School, graduated 1851. Served as clerk of Louisiana senate for one year. Admitted to Louisiana bar, 1852; became partner of Judge Charles Fenner (q.v.) in the firm of Fenner and Breaux, which later became Breaux, Fenner and Hall. Civil War service: colonel, Thirtieth Louisiana Infantry Regiment, March 1, 1862; dropped, February 1863; enrolling officer at Lake Charles, 1864-1865. After war, involved in sugar production in Lafayette Parish. Elected state senator in 1878 and again in 1884. Member, constitutional convention, 1879. Married (1) Emilie Locke (1836-1872), daughter of Samuel Locke and Emilina Guesdon, July 1, 1856. Married (2) Josephine Marr, December 24, 1874. Children: Modeste Emilina (1857-1933); Samuel Locke and Gustave Arvilien, Jr. (b. 1869). Member, Louisiana Educational Society, Louisiana Bar Association; president, New Orleans Jockey Club. Died, Oakbourne Plantation, near Lafayette., February 24, 1910. A.W.B. Sources: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, 2 vols. (1892), Vol. I; Andrew B. Booth, Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers … (1920), Vol. II; Gustave A. Breaux, The Acadian Breauxs of Louisiana and the English Lockes of New Hampshire (1947).
Proud Confederate Soldier
Breaux, Gus A., Capt. Col. Co. G. I. F. 30th La. Infty. Roster dated March, 1865, Elected Col. March 1st, 1862. Remarks: Regt. reduced to Battn. of 7 companies Feb., 1863, by order of Sec. of War. No Col. allowed for Battn. Appears on Official Rolls of Paroled Officers, Paroled at Washington, La., June 16th, 1865.
Breaux, Gus A., Capt. Co. I. Confed. Grds. Regt. La. Militia. Appears on roll dated Nov. 23rd, 1861.
BREAUX, Gustave A., attorney, politician. Born, Vermilionville (present-day Lafayette), La., December 28, 1828. Son of Aurelien Breaux and Modeste Bernard. Education: Norwich University in Vermont, graduated 1847; Harvard University Law School, graduated 1851. Served as clerk of Louisiana senate for one year. Admitted to Louisiana bar, 1852; became partner of Judge Charles Fenner (q.v.) in the firm of Fenner and Breaux, which later became Breaux, Fenner and Hall. Civil War service: colonel, Thirtieth Louisiana Infantry Regiment, March 1, 1862; dropped, February 1863; enrolling officer at Lake Charles, 1864-1865. After war, involved in sugar production in Lafayette Parish. Elected state senator in 1878 and again in 1884. Member, constitutional convention, 1879. Married (1) Emilie Locke (1836-1872), daughter of Samuel Locke and Emilina Guesdon, July 1, 1856. Married (2) Josephine Marr, December 24, 1874. Children: Modeste Emilina (1857-1933); Samuel Locke and Gustave Arvilien, Jr. (b. 1869). Member, Louisiana Educational Society, Louisiana Bar Association; president, New Orleans Jockey Club. Died, Oakbourne Plantation, near Lafayette., February 24, 1910. A.W.B. Sources: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, 2 vols. (1892), Vol. I; Andrew B. Booth, Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers … (1920), Vol. II; Gustave A. Breaux, The Acadian Breauxs of Louisiana and the English Lockes of New Hampshire (1947).
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