John G. Pratt

[2] At the time of his death his "magnificent plantation" at Bellevue was said to be "eight hundred superficial arpents" with a "splendid dwelling house" and "complete improvements.

"[1] Five days after Fort Sumter he was given command of the fourth brigade of the first division of the Louisiana state militia.

[4] In 1862, a unit he commanded, composed of irregular militia and Partisan Rangers, recruited from the parishes of St. Charles, Terrebonne and Rapides, botched an attempt to hijack a New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western Railway train.

[5] Pratt was arrested by Union soldiers in Louisiana and held as a prisoner of war for a time in 1863.

[8] He died in Portland, Connecticut, in 1866[9] and is buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in Middlesex County.