Frederick_Nash_Ogden

Frederick Nash Ogden

Frederick Nash Ogden

Confederate soldier and White Leaguer

Frederick Nash Ogden (January 25, 1837 – May 25, 1886)[1] was a Confederate officer and leading white supremacist organizer of New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] He was a major in the 8th Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battalion during the Siege of Vicksburg.[citation needed] He then led the 9th Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, a mounted infantry unit known as Ogden's Cavalry. After the war he became a leading White Leaguer and was involved in the Battle of Liberty Place.

Bronze relief of Ogden sculpted in 1921

He became known as General Fred Ogden and the Louisiana State Museum obtained a dress sword he was presented.[3] It also obtained a few of his papers.[4]

He served as president of the Crescent City White League shortly after its founding.[5]

A bronze relief was made of him by George T. Brewster in 1921 for his role at Vicksburg.[6] His funeral was a major event attended by political leaders. A road in New Orleans was named for him.

References

  1. [1]
    Wheeler, William Ogden; Van Alstyne, Lawrence; Ogden, Charles Burr (1907). The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906. Philadelphia, Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott company.
  2. [2]
    "General (Frederick) Ogden Drive – City Council Street Renaming Commission".
  3. [3]
    Museum, Louisiana State (June 14, 1934). "Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans: Handbook of Information Concerning Its Historic Buildings and the Treasures They Contain" – via Google Books.
  4. [4]
    "Biennial Report of the Board of Curators of the Louisiana State Museum to His Excellency, the Governor and the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana". 1914.
  5. [5]
    "The Louisiana White League Formed July 1874". 27 August 2020.
  6. [6]
    Vicksburg, Mailing Address: 3201 Clay Street; Us, MS 39183 Phone:636-0583 Contact. "Maj. Frederick N. Ogden - Vicksburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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