Elegy for the Native Guards
Natasha Trethewey, Emory University
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Time and Space on Ship Island
Recommended Resources:

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"Centuries of Change:" A Ship Island Chronology
http://www.nps.gov/guis/extended/MIS/MHistory/Time.htm
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Louisiana Native Guards on Ship Island 1863-1870 http://www.nps.gov/guis/extended/MIS/MHistory/NatvGrd.htm
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Gulf Islands National Seashore Fort Massachusetts History
http://www.nps.gov/guis/extended/MIS/MHistory/Forts.htm
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Ship Island Ferry
http://www.msshipisland.com/

Print Materials
Hollandsworth, James G. The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.

Weaver, C. P. Thank God My Regiment's an African One: The Civil War Diary of Nathan W. Daniels. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

Ochs, Stephen J. A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.



Presentation Sections:
Elegy for the Native Guards | Recommended Resources


Published: 10 June 2005

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