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1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battery

The 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery Regiment also styled as 1st Louisiana Regular Artillery Regiment was a heavy artillery unit of the Confederate States Army Army of Mississippi and Department of the Gulf aka District of the Gulf, Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana during the American Civil War. The regiment fought at the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip (1862), Battle of Grand Gulf (1863), Siege of Vicksburg (1863), Battle of Mobile Bay (1864) and the Mobile campaign (1865).

Formation
The regiment orginated as a state militia regiment with men from New Orleans and the surrounding area who were organized into ten companies, A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I and K, on February 5, 1861. The regiment was transferred to the Confederate States Army on March 13, 1861.

The first commander of the regiment was Colonel Paul O. Hébert. He graduated first in the class of 1840 from the United States Military Academy. In the following year, he was a professor of engineering at West Point. He resigned in 1845 to take the position of Chief Engineer of the State of Louisiana. He resigned in 1847 to rejoin the U.S. Army and fight in the Mexican-American War as a lieutenant colonel. He received a brevet appointment as colonel for gallantry. He was discharged on July 25, 1848. He was 14th governor of Louisiana from January 18, 1853 to January 22, 1856. Later in the Civil War, he was a brigadier general.