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Tag Archives: Louisiana Native Guards
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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