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Login to BlackFacts. Click the appropriate button below and you will be redirected to your Social Media Website for confirmation and then back to Blackfacts. Enter the email address and password you used to join BlackFacts. The Guard was formed when Louisiana Governor Thomas Overton Moore accepted into the state Native Guard 1st edition regiment of approximately 1, free African American men. When Governor Moore called for troops to defend Louisiana on April 17,a committee of ten prominent free blacks called a meeting at the citys Catholic Institute on April 22 to pledge their loyalty to the Confederate cause. About 2, people attended the meeting including 1, free blacks who signed a militia muster roll. Governor Moore accepted their services and formed the 1st Louisiana Native Native Guard 1st edition unit on May 2, Among those who joined the militia were successful architects, brick masons, dentists, doctors and carpenters. The Governor appointed three white officers as regimental commanders but company commanders were Creoles chosen from the ranks of the unit. Among these Creole officers was Lieutenant Andre Cailloux, who ironically would later join the Louisiana Native Guard Union regiment and die in a charge against Confederate forces at Port Hudson in Also among the officers was Lieutenant Morris W. Morris had the distinction of being the only black Jewish officer in the Confederate Army and later the only black Jewish officer in the Union Army. Despite the initial enthusiasm of New Orleanss free men of color for the Confederate cause, both state and Native Guard 1st edition Confederate officials were uncomfortable with the idea of black soldiers within their ranks. The 1st Louisiana Native Guard was never provided uniforms or arms and as a result most of the men used their own resources for both clothing and weapons. In January the Louisiana State Legislature Native Guard 1st edition a law that required militia members to be white. On February 16,the 1st Louisiana Native Guard was disbanded. Cancel Send message. Forgot Password? Login Cancel. Send Password Reset Message Cancel. BlackFacts Details. Source: Black Past. Business Facts. Take a Spin! Sports Facts. Facts About Women. Arts Facts. Literature Facts. CSA 1st Louisiana Native Guard ()

Appendix I. Louisiana Militia, in Confederate Service, Eventual Service in United States Forces. Sentmanat, Charles. Native Guards. Lavigne, V. Petit, Louis. Ferrand, Baptiste, Sr. Native Guard 1st edition, Joseph. Cyr, Clement. Washington, Maurice. Francois, Joseph. Ferrand, Baptiste, fils. Jolibois, Joseph. Amand, Joseph. Lavigne, Henry. Alcide, Joseph. Native Guards, Co. Alcine, Louis. Allougas, Gustave. Armstrong, Joseph. Ascendio, Joseph. Benjamin, Antoine. Bercy, Edouard. Bernard, Joseph. Bernard, Jules. Blancand, B. Boustillos, Antoine. Calliole, Jean. Cannelle, Pierre, Jr. Casimir, Lucien. Caspian, Joseph. Cassenave, R. Cassino, A. Castille, R. Cerrere, Etienne. Delpit, Louis. Dumas, Charles. Regiment colored. Durand, Jean. Duvernay, Jean. Eugene, Elie Joseph. Farrar, Emile. Ferbos, Victor. Ferrand, Joseph, III. Ferrand, Jr. Ferrand, Louis. Fleury, Joseph. Forestier, Jean. Germain, Jean. Guillaume, Georges. Guillaume, Joseph, fils. Handy, Etienne. Hippolyte, Francois. Hippolyte, Louis. Jacques, Arthur. Jannieau, Baptiste. Jean Baptiste, Etienne. Lavigne, Louis. Lazare, Louis. Legra, Jacques. Legros, Lous. Lopes, Alphonse. Louis, Charles. Magloire, Casimir. Manuel, Louis. Marcelin, John. Marie, Murville. Maurice, Augustin. Montiague, Native Guard 1st edition. Morphy, Jules. Morray, Millien. Page, Louis. Pepe, Hippolyte. Ribaud, Jean. Theverette, Simon. Thomassin, Benjamin. Regt Colored. Toregane, Michel. Toussaint, Auguste. Ursin, Francois. Victor, Arthur Joseph. Data is based on muster rolls of Confederate units in the War Department Collection of. Confederate Records in the National Archives and on the Soldiers. Native Guards Glapion, Joseph 3rd Sgt. Cyr, Clement 4th Sgt. Native Guards Benjamin, Antoine " 1st Regt. Native Guards Bercy, Edouard " Native Guard 1st edition Regt. Native Guards Bernard, Joseph " 1st Regt. Native Guards Bernard, Jules " 1st Regt. Native Guards Blancand, B. Native Guards Boustillos, Antoine " 1st Regt. Native Guards Cassenave, R. Native Guards Castille, R. Native Guards Cerrere, Etienne " 1st Regt. Regiment colored Durand, Jean " 1st Regt. Colored Farrar, Emile " 1st Regt. Native Guards Ferrand, Jr. Native Guards Ferrand, Louis " 1st Regt. 1st Louisiana Native Guard (CSA) - Wikipedia

Its members included a minority of free men of color from New Orleans; most were African-American former slaves who had escaped to join the Union cause and gain freedom. It was made up entirely of free men of color. Benjamin F. Butler headquartered his 12,man Army of the Gulf in New Orleans. Free men of color had served with Native Guard 1st edition militia since the French colonial Native Guard 1st edition. But the regiment's initial strength was 1, men, and it was composed mostly of African- American former slaves who had escaped to freedom. The Union commissioned several African-American line officers of the Guard. Former Confederate Lt. Pinchbackalso a free man of color, was appointed as captain of Company A, and later was reassigned as company commander of the 2nd Regiment. He later served as governor of the state, as a US Representative and Senator. James Lewisa mixed-raceformer steward on the Confederate river-steamer De Sotowas commissioned as captain of company K. During this period, some slaves who escaped from nearby plantations joined the regiment, but the Union Army's official policy discouraged such enrollments. In Novemberthe number of escaped slaves seeking to enlist became so great that the Union organized a second regiment and, a month Native Guard 1st edition, a third regiment. The field-grade officers of these regiments colonels Native Guard 1st edition, lieutenant colonelsand majors were white men, with the notable exception of Major Francois Francis Ernest Dumas of the 2nd Regiment, a Creole of color. After General Nathaniel P. Banks replaced Butler as Commander of the Department of the Gulf, he began a systematic campaign to purge all the black or colored line officers from the 1st, 2nd, and Native Guard 1st edition Regiments of the Louisiana Native Guard. He secured the resignations of all the black line officers in the 2nd Regiment in Februarybut most of the black line officers in the 1st Regiment and 3rd Regiment remained. From its formation in September until early Maythe 1st Louisiana Native Guard largely performed fatigue duty—chopping wood, gathering supplies, and digging earthworks. From January to Maythe regiment also guarded the railway depots along the rail line between Algiers south of the , now part of New Orleans to Brashear City now called Morgan City. By this time, the Guard's numbers had diminished to Native Guard 1st editionand Fort Jackson. In mid, the 1st Louisiana Native Guard, along with the 3rd Louisiana Native Guardhad its Native Guard 1st edition chance at combat. These units participated in the first assault at Milliken's Bend in the Siege of Port Hudson on May 27, as well as the second assault on June Captain Cailloux died heroically in the first assault. Banks had requested the truce to carry off the wounded and bury the dead. Yet, inexplicably, the Federals left untouched the area where the Native Guards had charged the previous day--in stark contrast to their actions elsewhere on the battlefield. The hot sun putrefied the bodies until the stench forced Confederate Colonel Shelby to ask Bank's permission to bury the dead in front of his lines. Banks refused, claiming that he had no dead in that area. Cailloux's body, as well as those of the other members of the 1st Louisiana Native Guard who fell with him that day, was left on the field of battle until the surrender of Port Hudson on July 9, News of his heroism reached New Orleans, and Native Guard 1st edition received a hero's funeral Native Guard 1st edition the city with a large procession and thousands of attendees along the route on July Perhaps to of the original 1, members of the 1st Native Guard 1st edition Native Guard made this transition. Poor treatment by white soldiers and difficult field conditions resulted in many black officers resigning and enlisted soldiers deserting the Corps. By the end of the war, aboutAfrican Americans had served in the regiments of the United States Colored Troops. In contrast to the 1st Louisiana Native Guards organization, all field and line officers of the United States Colored Troops were white. At the war's end, approximately of the original 1, members of the First Louisiana Native Guard still remained in uniform in either the 73rd or 74th Regiments. Of the nearly 1, enlisted soldiers of the Confederate Native Guards, only were recorded as enlisting in the Union "Native Guard", and only ten of the 36 officers served the Union. The free men of color had varying reasons for volunteering to serve with the Confederacy, in part to preserve their own standing in the society, just as others did. Pinchbackwho came from the North to serve here, and others like him were free men of color who joined the Union militia for the first time and distinctly for that cause. Most of the Guard soldiers were African Americans who had escaped from slavery and joined the Union effort. Some historians think the legend of continuity of the regiments was a propaganda ploy by Union General Benjamin F. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. All-black regiment in the American Civil War. For Disambiguation, see 1st Louisiana Native Guard. American Civil War portal. Retrieved on Hollandsworth, James G. Natasha Trethewey Native Guard. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 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