[BuffaloJack]

> Its only the politically correct crowd that will tell us this isnt possible or that Ike was forced to follow his master and friend.

Here’s another tidbit that the political correctionists will never acknowledge:
The 1st Louisiana Native Guard was an all black Confederate Infantry Regiment. There was also an all black Union Infantry Regiment called the 1st Louisiana Native Guard. They were separate military units with the same name. Like the 54th Massachusetts that was featured in the film “Glory”, both black Union Regiments had all white officers. The black Confederate regiments were unique in that they almost always had all black officers.

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The 1st Louisiana Native Guard was an all black Confederate Infantry Regiment. There was also an all black Union Infantry Regiment called the 1st Louisiana Native Guard. They were separate military units with the same name.

Actually in many ways they were one and the same. The Davis government refused to accept the Native Guard into confederate service because, well, because they were blacks for God's sake. Who did they think they were?

Anyway, the the Union liberated New Orleans, Butler organized the Native Guard as a Union regiment. Quite a few of those blacks who the South turned down joined the new regiment.

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The 1st Louisiana Native Guard was an all black Confederate Infantry Regiment.

I'm far from expert on OrBats of the War for Yankee Dominance, but wasn't there also a New Orleans artillery battalion of Free Men of Colour?