Tag Archives: Louisiana Native Guards

Purge of the Second Louisiana Native Guards

Posted on September 3, 2021 by Neil P. Chatelain

Sometimes courage and leadership among military officers lies not in leading a battlefield charge, but challenging injustice directly. Such leadership occurred by the line officers of the Louisiana Native Guards, the largest concentration of African American military officers in the … Continue reading →

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Black Confederates: Laborers or Soldiers? (part four)

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Steward T. Henderson

Part four of a series Some people suggested using slaves to fight from the very beginning of the war. However, the overwhelming fear was of slave insurrection. The John Brown raid was less than two years before the Civil War … Continue reading →

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East Pascagoula Raid

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Phill Greenwalt

On April 9, 1863, the residents of East Pascagoula, Mississippi, had a day like no other. Union warships lurked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Their presence was nothing abnormal for Southern residents along the coast. The Union military had … Continue reading →

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