Researched and Compiled by

Bennie J. McRae
LWF Network
Trotwood, Ohio

HISTORY

• First Regiment Louisiana Native Guards

• Second Regiment Louisiana Native Guards

• Third Regiment Louisiana Native Guards

• Fourth Regiment Louisiana Native Guards

ORDERS - REPORTS
(From the beginning until Corps de Afrique designation on June 6, 1863)

• GENERAL ORDERS NO. 63 - BY COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER - Headquarters Department of the Gulf - August 22, 1862 (Transition of the Louisiana Native Guards)
   

• REPORT -- MAJOR-GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, August 27, 1862.
   

• REPORT -- MAJOR-GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, [September --], 1862.
   

• REPORT -- MAJOR-GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, October 24, 1862.
   

• LETTER -- MAJOR-GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, October 30, 1862.
   

• LETTER -- BRIGADIER-GENERAL G. WEITZEL - HEADQUARTERS RESERVE BRIGADE,
  In Camp, near Thibodeaux, La., November 1, 1862.
   

• LETTER -- BRIGADIER-GENERAL G. WEITZEL - HEADQUARTERS RESERVE BRIGADE,
  In Camp, near Thibodeaux, La., November 5, 1862.
   

• LETTER -- BRIGADIER-GENERAL G. WEITZEL - HEADQUARTERS RESERVE BRIGADE,
  In Camp, near Thibodeaux, La., November 5, 1862.
   

• LETTER -- MAJOR-GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, November 6, 1862. -- PLUS TWO INCLOSURES.
   

• GENERAL ORDERS No. 91. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, November 9, 1862.
   

• LETTER -- MAJOR-GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, November 14, 1862. -- PLUS INCLOSURE.
   

• LETTER (To the People of Louisiana) -- MAJOR-GENERAL N. P. BANKS - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, December 24, 1862.
   

• SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 3. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL BANKS - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, January 3, 1863.
   

• SPECIAL ORDERS No. 9. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL BANKS - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, January 9, 1863.
   

• SPECIAL ORDERS No. 69. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL BANKS - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, Baton Rouge, March 10, 1863.
   

• REPORT -- MAJOR-GENERAL N. P. BANKS - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, New Orleans, La., March 21, 1863.
   

• REPORT -- COLONEL N. W. DANIELS - HEADQUARTERS, 2ND REGIMENT, LOUISIANA NATIVE GUARDS - Ship Island, Miss., April 10, 1863.
   

• SPECIAL ORDERS No. 20. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL AUGUR - HEADQUARTERS AUGUR'S DIVISION, Baton Rouge, La., May 20, 1863.
   

• GENERAL ORDERS No. 47. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL BANKS - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, 19TH A. C., Before Port Hudson, June 6, 1863.
   

• GENERAL ORDERS No. 49. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL BANKS - HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, 19TH A. C., Before Port Hudson, June 15, 1863.

Louisiana Native Guards who volunteered for storming party at Port Hudson, Louisiana, under General Orders, No. 49, Headquarters Department of the Gulf, June 15, 1863.

General Orders No. 49.

Public Resolution No. 7.

CORPS D'AFRIQUE AT PORT HUDSON,  LOUISIANA, MAY 23-JULY 8, 1863

LOUISIANA OFFICERS KILLED AT PORT HUDSON

• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
• Dyer, Frederick H. A COMPENDIUM OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 3 Volumes. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
• United States War Department. THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.