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| [[Image:File:MarignyDeMandevilleVaudechamp.jpg|center|200px|border]]Antoine Jacques Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville in the officer’s uniform from the Orleans Lancers of the Louisiana Militia, by Jean Joseph Vaudechamp. | |
| Born: | 1811 |
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| Died: | 1890 |
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| Nickname: | Mandeville |
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| Branch: | French Army Louisiana Militia 10th Louisiana Volunteers[1] |
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| Rank: | Colonel |
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| Battles: | Battle of Fredericksburg |
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Antoine Jacques Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville (also known as Antoine James de Marigny and Mandeville DeMarigny) was the son of Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville and the son-in-law of William C. C. Claiborne, the first governor of Louisiana.
He attended the Academy of St. Cyr in the 1830s before briefly serving in the French Army.[2]
During the American Civil War, he was a colonel in the 10th Louisiana Infantry Regiment ("Lee's Foreign Legion") and served in Virginia.[3][4]
He married Sophronia Louise Claiborne, daughter of the first Governor of Louisiana.[5]
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- ↑ "M378 roll 18". National Park Service. http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ↑ King, Grace (1921). Creole Families of New Orleans. Macmillan. pp. 39. http://books.google.com/books?id=cXQOAAAAIAAJ.
- ↑ King p. 40
- ↑ Brooks, Thomas Walter; Jones, Michael Dan (1995). Lee's Foreign Legion: A History of the 10th Louisiana Infantry. Gravenhurst, Ontario: Watts Printing.
- ↑ King p. 40, 58