Louis Hebert, a first cousin of General Paul 0. Hebert, and a brother-in-law of General Walter H. Stevens, was born in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, March 13, 1820. His early education came from private tutors on the family plantation. Later he attended Jefferson College in Louisiana and was graduated third in the class of 1845 at West Point. He resigned two years later to take charge of his father’s sugar interests.

During the years before the outbreak of the Civil War, he was an officer of militia, a member of the state senate, and chief engineer of Louisiana. Hebert entered the Confederate Army as Colonel of the Third Regiment Louisiana Infantry. He fought with credit at Wilson’s Creek, and was captured with a large part of his command at the battle of Elkhorn. After being exchanged, he was promoted Brigadier General on May 26, 1862.

He commanded the 2nd Brigade of General Henry Little’s division of Price’s army in North Mississippi, taking a gallant part in the battles of Iuka, Corinth, and in the siege of Vicksburg.

He was subsequently and until the end of the war in charge of the heavy artillery in and around Fort Fisher, North Carolina; and also acted as chief engineer of the Confederate War Department in that state.

He returned to Louisiana upon the cessation of hostilities and spent the remaining years of his life editing a newspaper and teaching in private schools in Iberville and St. Martin Parishes, in the latter of which his death occurred on January 7, 1901. He is buried in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.