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Tag Archives: Louisiana Native Guards
“Blackest Man in New Orleans” – Captain Cailloux of the Louisiana Native Guards – Part 2
Find Part One Here The Native Guards on the extreme right of the Union flank at Port Hudson were positioned in front of some of the roughest terrain on the battlefield and ordered to attack the strongest portion of the … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Regiments, Sieges, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Regiment Native Guards, 33rd Mississippi, 3rd Regiment Native Guards, André Cailloux, Benjamin Butler, Black regiment, Black soldiers, civil war memory, Claude Paschal Maistre, Colonel John Nelson, Louisiana Native Guards, Major General Franklin Gardner, Nathaniel Banks, National Emancipation Monument, New Orleans, Port Hudson, St. Louis Cemetery, W.B. Shelby, William Dwight
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“Blackest Man in New Orleans” – Captain Cailloux of the Louisiana Native Guards – Part 1
The unit that would be later known as the Louisiana Native Guards found its start, astoundingly, in Confederate Louisiana in May of 1861. Accepted as a militia regiment by Governor Thomas Moore, 33 black officers and 731 privates – all … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Regiments, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Regiment Native Guards, 2nd Regiment Native Guards, 3rd Regiment Native Guards, Admiral David G. Farragut, André Cailloux, Benjamin Butler, civil war memory, Felicie Coulon, Institute Catholique, John W. Phelps, Louisiana Native Guards, Nathaniel Banks, New Orleans, Port Hudson
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Purge of the Second Louisiana Native Guards
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
Black Confederates: Laborers or Soldiers? (part four)
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
Posted in Antebellum South, Common Soldier, Slavery, USCT
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Benjamin Quarles, Black Confederate soldiers, Black Confederates, Black-Confederates-Laborers-or-Soldiers, General Order 14, Jefferson Davis, John Brown, Louisiana Native Guards, Patrick Cleburne, Richard S. Ewell, Slavery, The Negro in the Civil War, USCT
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East Pascagoula Raid
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
Posted in Armies, Battles, Emerging Civil War, USCT
Tagged Benjamin Butler, East Pascagoula Raid, Louisiana Native Guards, National Park Service, Port Hudson, USCT
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