Louisiana Tigers was the common nickname for certain infantry troops from the state of Louisiana in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Originally applied to a specific company, the nickname expanded to a battalion, then to a brigade, and eventually to all Louisiana troops within the Army of Northern Virginia. Although the exact composition of the Louisiana Tigers changed as the war progressed, they developed a reputation as fearless, hard-fighting shock troops.
Read more about Louisiana Tigers: The Original Louisiana Tigers, Formation and Uniforms, The First Battle of Bull Run, Tiger Execution, 1862 Uniforms, Jackson's Valley Campaign, The Seven Days, Hays's "Louisiana Tiger" Brigade, Final Organization, Postbellum
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“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark
green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
But I wonder’d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone
there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“When two tigers fight, one is sure to be wounded.”
—Chinese proverb.