Native Guard
The Regiment was organized in New Orleans, Louisiana in October, 1862, and assigned to the defenses of New Orleans to December 1862. It operated in Louisiana until January 1863 when the it was sent to Ship Island, Mississippi.
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Famous quotes containing the words native and/or guard:
“The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)