Michael Dan Jones

Fighting for Southern Independence Michael Dan Jones

This is the story of one of the most heroic and hardest fighting regiments in the Confederate Army, the 13th Louisiana Infantry. The men of this regiment were largely from the New Orleans area and fought in such famous battles as Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Atlanta (Campaign), Franklin, and Nashville in the main Confederate Army of the in the western theater of operations. They served under such great Confederate generals as P. G. T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Joseph Johnston and John Bell Hood.