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The Corps d'Afrique at Port Hudson. Courtesy of the National Archives. Sketch of black line officers of the First Louisiana Native Guards from Harper's Weekly. They are (left to right): Capt. Charles Sentmanat, 2d Lieut. Victor Lavigne, 1st Lieut. Louis D. Lanien, 2d Lieut. Joseph L. Montieu, and Capt. Edgard C. Davis. Courtesy of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries. P. B. S. Pinchback. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. [3.238.57.9] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:41 GMT) Benjamin F. Butler (courtesy of the Nathaniel P. Banks (courtesy .of the Library of Congress). National Archives). William Dwight,Jr. (courtesy of MASS MOLLUS & USAMHI). George L. Andrews (courtesy of MASS MOLLUS & USAMHI). Union commanders of the Native Guards Twocompanies of the First Louisiana Native Guards disembarking at Fort McComb, Louisiana, as depicted in the February 28,1863, issue of Harper's Weekly. Courtesy of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries. View of Ship Island, Mississippi, published in the February 8,1862, issue of Harper's Weekly. Courtesy of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries. [3.238.57.9] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:41 GMT) The Native Guards' approach to Port Hudson on May 27,1863. Telegraph Road is in the upper left-hand corner of this photograph. The Native Guards charged across the road toward the entrenchments in the foreground on May 27. Courtesy of the Illinois State Historical Society. Confederate earthworks at Port Hudson overlooking Telegraph Road. Marshall Dunham Photograph Album, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Louisiana State University. Inaccurate depiction of the Native Guards' assault at Port Hudson published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Reprinted from Leslie's Illustrated Civil War (Jackson , Miss., 1992), 202. Sketch of Captain Cailloux's funeral procession in Harper's Weekly, August 29, 1863. Courtesy of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries. [3.238.57.9] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:41 GMT) Interior view of a Union camp and fortifications at Port Hudson. Courtesy of the National Archives. General Andrews' headquarters at Port Hudson (courtesy of the National Archives). "I send you a photograph of our headquarters," Colonel Quincy wrote in a letter home. "The first tent to the right [left?] is mine. You observe the General leaning against the fence. Lieut. Luther leaning against the tree. A sentinel on the pizarro [piazza?] which you may observe his white glove, but he is so black you cant see anything else. . . .The black man on the barrels a building ofa chimneyon Mr Fiske's tent. The next tent is Major Ward's, & the one on the extreme right left the General's. The house was occupied by the rebel general Gardner during the siege, 8c I am writing in the room of which you see the left hand window with the blinds. We find our tents much warmer in windy weather than the house, which is ventilated with our shells" (Col. Samuel M. Quincy to his mother, January 30, 1864, Quincy et al. Papers , LC). [3.238.57.9] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:41 GMT) School for black soldiers and freedmen at Port Hudson. Photo by Blauvelt, ICHi19841 , courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society. . Colonel Quincy standing on the porch, second from the left, listening to the band from Boston after its escape from New Orleans. Courtesy of MASS MOLLUS & USAMHI. Colonel Dickey seated on a sleigh after an unusual snowfall at Port Hudson in January , 1864. Courtesy of the Louisiana Office of State Parks. Black sentinel on a parapet at Port Hudson. Courtesy of the National Archives. [3.238.57.9] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:41 GMT) Corporal's Guard of black soliders in front of the Provost Marshall's Office at Port Hudson. Courtesy of the National Archives. Black engineer troops working on entrenchments at Port Hudson. Courtesy of the Illinois State Historical Society. Map of the Native Guards' assault on Port Hudson. Adapted from Plate XXXVIII of Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, D.C., 1891-95). ...