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Once again, fabrications and non-sequiturs Nancy dearie.

Ah, I see that half-day kindergarden has let out in Florida.

Any statement that the 1st Louisiana Native Guard, organized as a Louisiana State Militia Unit and accepted for service by the Governor, changed sides en masse is FALSE.

A correct statement, though given your history it's accuracy was no doubt accidental on your part.

The fantasy that the United States colored troops were “188,000 Black soldiers” when their ranks also held the Hispanic, Native Peoples, and other non-whites who were not allowed to serve in the ranks of the segregated Union Army is also typical of rewritten history.

And that is pure fantasy. Ely Parker is an example of a full-blooded Seneca who not only did not serve in a segregated regiment but was acually a high-ranking officer. The Union army recruited several regiments of Cherokee, Creek and Choctaw and, like the confederate army, they were organized into their own regiments - the 1st through 4th Indian Home Guard, USV. As for Hispanics, your claim is pure nonsense. There is evidence of a number of Hispanics serving throughout the Union Army. Julius Peter Garesché was a Cuban lieutenant colonel and member of Rosecran's staff killed at Stone's River. Miguel E. Pino was a colonel and commanded the 2nd New Mexico at Valverde and Glorioso Pass. Federico Fernández Cavada was another Cuban who commanded the 114th Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, his brother was also a Union officer. Alverez de la Mesa was an officer with the 39th New York. And Spanish and Hispanic soldiers served in other regiments. If any of those regiments were USCT, then those men were with those units by choice.

The 1st Louisiana Native Guard, CSA, can trace its origins to the Louisiana Battalion of Free Men of Color who served under Jackson in the War of 1812 and whose officers were the first Black military officers in U.S. history.

But can trace no actice service with the confederate army because, after all, they were still Men of Color and that wasn't allowed as soldiers in the csa.