Training Negro troops

GLC09229

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GLC#
GLC09229
Type
Images
Date
circa 1863
Title
Training Negro troops
Place Written
Port Hudson, Louisiana
Pagination
1 albumen Height: 16.4 cm, Width: 21.6 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Mounted albumen print of the members of the Louisiana Native Guard learning to read at Port Hudson, Louisiana, at a school set up for the soldiers and freedmen. The guard was one of the first all-black units in the Civil War, formed by Benjamin Butler in 1862.

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