Frederick Nash Ogden

{{Short description|Confederate soldier and White Leaguer}}

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Frederick Nash Ogden (January 25, 1837 – May 25, 1886){{Cite book|last1=Wheeler|first1=William Ogden|url=http://archive.org/details/ogdenfamilyiname00whee|title=The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906|last2=Van Alstyne|first2=Lawrence|last3=Ogden|first3=Charles Burr|date=1907|publisher=Philadelphia, Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott company}} was a Confederate officer and leading white supremacist organizer of New Orleans, Louisiana.{{Cite web|url=https://nolaccsrc.org/ogden/|title=General (Frederick) Ogden Drive – City Council Street Renaming Commission}} He was a major in the 8th Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battalion during the Siege of Vicksburg.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} 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. He was an unsuccessful candidate to be Democratic nominee for governor of Louisiana in 1884.{{Cite web |last=Kendall |first=John |date=1922 |title=Kendall's History of New Orleans - Chapter 30 |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/New_Orleans/_Texts/KENHNO/30*.html}}

He became known as General Fred Ogden and the Louisiana State Museum obtained a dress sword he was presented.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9pb9d7Vbph8C&q=fred+ogden+louisiana|title=Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans: Handbook of Information Concerning Its Historic Buildings and the Treasures They Contain|first=Louisiana State|last=Museum|date=June 14, 1934|via=Google Books}} It also obtained a few of his papers.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m7RJAAAAYAAJ&q=fred+ogden+louisiana&pg=PA77|title=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|year=1914}}

He served as president of the Crescent City White League shortly after its founding.{{cite web | url=https://thereconstructionera.com/the-louisiana-white-league-formed-july-1874/ | title=The Louisiana White League Formed July 1874 | date=27 August 2020 }}

A bronze relief was made of him by George T. Brewster in 1921 for his role at Vicksburg.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/maj-frederick-n-ogden.htm|title=Maj. Frederick N. Ogden - Vicksburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service)|first1=Mailing Address: 3201 Clay Street|last1=Vicksburg|first2=MS 39183 Phone:636-0583 Contact|last2=Us|website=www.nps.gov}} His funeral was a major event attended by political leaders. A road in New Orleans was named for him.