Silas T. Grisamore

Grisamore wrote his war down while it was fresh. From December 1867 to April 1871 the Weekly Thibodaux Sentinel ran his reminiscences under the pen name Uncle Silas. He had gone to war with the Lafourche Creoles, which became Company G of the 18th Louisiana Infantry, and served mostly as a quartermaster for the regiment, then a brigade and a division. His pages cover Labadieville, Bisland and Shiloh, along with the unglamorous work of finding food, clothing and tents. Historian Arthur Bergeron later edited the series into a book, a Confederate officer's account of keeping an army supplied.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — steps away
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park center on Bayou Lafourche with Acadian and bayou-life exhibits, a 200-seat theater and ranger-guided boat tours to the E. D. White house.
• Laurel Valley Village — 2.2 mi
  A sugar plantation's workers' village south of Thibodaux, with cabins of about 1845, shotgun houses, a store and cemetery, and the 1887 strike and massacre in the parish around it.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 5.7 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 15 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.

More markers nearby

• Richard Henry Allen — steps away
• John Carlton Beatty — steps away
• George Seth Guion — steps away
• St. John's Historic Cemetery — steps away