Dubroca, Adolph Valerien

On the outbreak of the war in 1861 he reported for duty in the confederate service and became a member of Company A, Fourth Louisiana infantry of the Delta Rifles, but was soon after transferred to the Thirteenth Louisiana infantry, as lieutenant of a company and in 1868 was transferred to the trans-Mississippi department as quartermaster of the Eighth cavalry with the rank of captain. He served as such until the close of the war, but during his service suffered the untold privations, sufferings and innumerable dangers of southern heroes. While in the ranks of the Thirteenth Louisiana infantry he participated in the bloody battle of Shiloh and in numerous skirmishes until Corinth was evacuated, and in the battle of Mansfield was taken prisoner, but forty-eight hours afterward was released. No braver soldier ever trod the crimson turf of a battlefield than Mr. Dubroca, and his entire career as a confederate soldier was characterized by strict adherence to duty.