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1st Louisiana Native Guard (CSA)
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For the Union Army regiment, see 1st Louisiana Native Guard.
1st Louisiana Native Guard (Confederate)
Louisiana Feb 11 1861.svg
Active May 2, 1861–February 15, 1862
Country Confederate States of America
Allegiance CSA Dixie
Branch Confederate Militia, American Civil War
Type Infantry
Size 1,135
Engagements None

The 1st Louisiana Native Guard (CSA) was a Confederate Louisiana militia of “free persons of color” formed in 1861 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was disbanded in February 1862; some of the members joined the Union Army’s 1st Louisiana Native Guard regiment (later the 73rd Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops).
[edit] Confederate Louisiana militia

Shortly after Louisiana’s secession, a new militia regiment formed on May 2, 1861, consisting mostly of “free persons of color” Creole French Speakers (gens de couleur) between the ages of 15 and 50. At that time, an estimated 10,000 African American residents of the state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans had gained their freedom. This regiment was also called the Louisiana Native Guard. Though ten per cent of its members would later join the Union Army’s 1st Louisiana Native Guard, the two were separate military units.

André Cailloux, who later became a hero of the Siege of Port Hudson as a Union officer, served as a lieutenant in this Confederate Louisiana militia regiment of the Native Guard. The militia unit was the first of any North American unit to have African-American officers.[1]

The South did not use this Confederate Native Guard regiment in any militar

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