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In three pages this paper critically examines the author’s purpose for writing this brief historical account of this black regional military unit that served both the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War, discusses what sources the text relies upon, considers why President Abraham Lincoln finally acquiesced to the use of black troops for combat, and finally addresses what readers should take away from this historical account. No additional sources are listed.
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Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War that is long on concise detail and content. This story of Major General Benjamin F. Butlers 1st, 2nd, and
3rd Louisiana Native Guards comprised of African Americans reveals that the black participants in the Civil War expanded well beyond the much-ballyhooed Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry. To summarize this
text of ten chapters and less than 150 pages as being little more than another ethnically correct story of how a group of black Americans triumphed over stifling racism in
service of their nation is inaccurate. Instead, this text, by focusing upon a relatively limited view of a specific region, group of people, and situations, reflects how America as
a whole has been adversely impacted by racial discrimination throughout its history. Blacks have not only been denied equal rights, but society has been denied the valuable and beneficial
contributions these individuals could have made if diversity been celebrated instead of reviled from the very beginning. The Native Guards that were dispatched to fight for first the Confederates in
1861 and 1862 and later for the Union forces beginning in August of 1862 were treated disrespectfully by fellow soldiers and officers alike despite their willingness to risk their lives
in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunately equally practiced on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. For example, when Maj. Gen. Butler decided to
utilize these black troops, it was only when he did not want to sacrifice the lives of his white soldiers. Major General Nathaniel P. Banks followed a similar practice
and showed his ignorance by declaring these men "are servisable any where. The[y] can be put into the unhealthy localities in the department and not suffer like white men"
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