I wrote about this man in my Civil War II blog as he has a statue in front of the Lafayette Parish courthouse in Louisiana that certain people want removed. I have heard about him, but that is about all. The article had this to say about him.
Alfred Mouton was the son of the 9th governor of Louisiana, attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and later returned to Lafayette where he became a landowner and, of course, slaveowner. He supported the parish's laws limiting the assembly of Blacks and their ability to move around.
He was killed at the Battle of Mansfield in 1864.
The Alfred Mouton charter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy donated the statue to the city in 1922
--Old Secesh
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