Achilles was a private in Company D of the 19th Louisiana Infantry of the Confederate Army. In 1862, just after Achilles began serving in combat, he became ill at Corinth, Mississippi.

Achilles Harris was a husband, father, and private from a town named Athens in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. He wrote home to his wife Rebecca from the start of the American Civil War, when he left ...

"He's given everything he has to give effort to play that game and Mother Nature gave us a graphic demonstration of kind of ...

Image of John Achilles Harris of Athens, Louisiana, a Civil War soldier who died in 1864 while fighting against Sherman’s army. Surviving letters written by Achilles to Becky give us the ...