The 6th Louisiana Infantry Regiment served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

The regiment was organized into Confederate service for action in the American Civil War on 4 June 1861, at Camp Moore in the state of Louisiana.

[4] In its early days, the unit had a reputation for being disorderly and hard to control;[5] Seymour had to publicly rebuke several officers in late 1861 for drunkenness.

The men arrived at their destination on 14 and 16 June,[7] and were stationed at Centreville,[8] as part of a brigade commanded by Brigadier General Richard Ewell.

[11] The period after the fighting at Bull Run was plagued by inactivity, boredom, and drunkenness among the regiment's men.

[15] On 18 April, the regiment marched to the Gordonsville area, before moving west into the Shenandoah Valley ten days later to serve under Major General Stonewall Jackson, as part of a division commanded by Ewell.

[11] The Confederate government passed a law extending the enlistment term of soldiers from one year to the remainder of the war.

Seymour initially planned on resigning rather than standing for re-election, but changed his mind after it became clear to him that the men of the regiment wished for him to continue as colonel.

[18] On 23 May, the regiment saw action in the Battle of Front Royal,[19] as Jackson attacked an isolated Union outpost.

Jackson ordered Ewell to advance on the direct route from Front Royal to Winchester, while Jackson and another part of the army, including Taylor's brigade, moved via Cedarville to strike the road from Strasburg to Winchester at Middletown, with hopes of cutting off part of the Union column.

The 6th Louisiana suffered five men killed, including Major McArthur, a further 39 wounded, and three missing in action.

[26] 1 June saw the 6th Louisiana engaged in some fighting as Ewell skirmished near Strasburg with a Union force led by John C.

Before the 6th Louisiana was engaged at Cross Keys, Taylor's brigade was sent to Port Republic to counter a Union cavalry strike.

Taylor's brigade crossed a rickety bridge; Jackson's men were engaging Union troops in the Battle of Port Republic.

[31] The majority of Taylor's brigade was sent to the right of the battlefield through heavy woods to assault a Union artillery position on a prominence known as the Coaling.

[49] The regiment was held in reserve at the Battle of Fredericksburg on 13 December and was not directly engaged, although it did come under Union artillery fire.

[23] An inspection in January 1863 rated the 6th Louisiana as having "poor" discipline and moderately good at performance in drills.

[23] Altogether, the 6th Louisiana Infantry sustained losses of 14 killed, 68 wounded, and 99 captured at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

[54] It next saw combat on 14 June, in the Second Battle of Winchester,[23] where it joined its brigade of other Louisiana units in capturing a Union fort.

Entering the town of Gettysburg, the brigade captured large numbers of disorganized Union troops.

[60] Back in Virginia, the 6th Louisiana fought in the Bristoe campaign in October and was overrun in the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station on 7 November, losing 89 men captured.

[63] The brigade was badly wrecked at the Mule Shoe, and only 60 men were present at the 6th Louisiana's roll call the next morning.

[64] From June through October, it was detached as part of Jubal Early's command to fight in the Valley campaigns of 1864.

The 6th Louisiana's remnants ended their military service when Robert E. Lee's Confederate army surrendered on 9 April, after the Battle of Appomattox Court House.