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The Glengarry is the same colour as the army's service dress uniform with a black band and two black swallow-tail ribbons at the rear. The cap badge is worn over the left eye. Officers in the RDF wear a similar Glengarry but with green band and ribbons as part of their service dress uniform. Army pipers and drummers wear a black Glengarry with ...
The Battle of New Orleans, January 1815, by Jean Hyacinthe de Laclotte of the Louisiana Militia. The regiment was dispatched from Fort George to Guernsey in September 1800. [5] It returned to Scotland in September 1802 [6] from where it was deployed to Dublin in February 1803 to assist in quelling an insurrection. [6]
The Native Guards were on duty and at their post when Federal ships arrived opposite New Orleans, April 25, 1862 [2] Approaches to New Orleans, Department of the Gulf Map Number 5, February 14, 1863. [3] The 1st Louisiana Native Guard was a Confederate Louisianan militia that consisted of Creoles of color.
Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and Louisiana state seal belt buckle with musket.From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs 4th Louisiana Infantry Regimental Monument at Vicksburg National Military Park Louisiana monument at Vicksburg National Military Park
After New Orleans fell to Admiral David Farragut in April 1862, Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler headquartered his 12,000-man Army of the Gulf in New Orleans. On September 27, 1862, Butler organized the Union Army's 1st Louisiana Native Guard regiment, some of whose members had served in the previous Confederate Native Guard regiment.
On 11 May 1861, the 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment organized at Camp Walker in New Orleans with 1,037 soldiers. The unit's original field officers were Colonel Louis Hébert, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel M. Hyams, and Major William F. Tunnard. On 20 May, the regiment started to travel to Fort Smith, Arkansas.