United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Detiege-Honore Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 2460
Content Description
This small collection consists predominantly of photocopies of original documents collected about the history of the Detiege-Honore family of St. Martinville, Louisiana. Most materials concern Emile Detiege, a Civil War veteran and politician during the Reconstruction period who served in both the Louisiana State Senate and the Louisiana House of Representatives. Detiege was a free man of color, and he organized a battalion of Black troops, the First Regiment, Corps d'Afrique in 1862. He...
Dates:
Other: 1873-1950
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Detiege-Honore Family papers