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United States. Corps d'Afrique. Engineer Regiment, 1st (1863-1864)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 823
0.01 linear feet (1 oversize folder)
The Corps d'Afrique was officially known as the Louisiana Native Guards. The First Louisiana Native Guards was raised in August 1862 by Union general Benjamin Butler and mustered in on September 27, 1862. It was the first Black regiment in the... more