[…soon realized that Confederate authorities did not intend to provide the Native Guards with either the status or support they afforded the white soldiers.
In September 1861, when the first Union prisoners captured at Manassas were to arrive in New Orleans, white militia men, instead of the Native Guards, were selected to escort them.]
What is the source of this statement?
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Below is taken from the photocopy of the Newspaper referenced.
{New Orleans Commercial Bulletin- Sep 30, 1861
The Prisoners- It is considered positive that the Yankee prisoners will arrive this morning by the Jackson train. A detachment of the Orleans Guard, the Orleans Light Guard and the Louisiana State Guard, the Continental Guards, and the company of colored troops have been detailed, we understand by Gen. Twiggs to escort and guard them to the Parish Prison where they will be confined until something can be found for them to do.}
After researching the same paper the prisoners where numbered at 250, mostly foreigners. Made up of men from the 69th, 2nd, 11th and 14th New York, New York Zouaves and 2nd Maine. Apparently captured at the Battle of Manassas.
another...
{Lewiston Daily Evening Journal, October 9, 1861.
FROM NEW ORLEANS
1300 warriors crossed the Arkansas River near Plymouth on the 15th ult. en route for McColloch's army. Gen. Whitefield late of Arkansas, is also moving toward Southern Missouri, at the head of Texan troops.
The Federal prisoners sent to New Orleans were escorted to their quarters there, by a colored company.
There are at least several more papers with the same information at different dates even after the event.
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David Upton