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The Regiment of Free Men of Color of Louisiana, volunteered in May 1861.

Its member were free blacks of Louisiana and the regiment was the first one formed in the Civil War. The Confederate Government awarded it no recognition and it was employed only on local guard duty.

After Louisiana was seized by the Union Army, the personnel of the free black militia of 1861asked to be mustered as Federal soldiers. In Sept. 27,1862 they were admitted into the Union Army as the 1st Louisiana Native Guard.

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