Natasha Trethewey, Elegy for the Native Guards

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Elegy for the Native Guards

Natasha Trethewey, Emory University

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Time and Space on Ship Island

Recommended Resources:

Map	Gulf Islands National Seashore Pre and Post Hurricane Katrina from NASA Earth Observatory
Map	Ship Island, MS (1996, Post Hurricane Camille) from 1996 NASA/UL Lafayette CIR Photographs
Link "Centuries of Change:" A Ship Island Chronology http://www.nps.gov/guis/extended/MIS/MHistory/Time.htm
Link	Native Guard Photographs Courtesy of Special Collections; University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Link Louisiana Native Guards on Ship Island 1863-1870 http://www.nps.gov/guis/extended/MIS/MHistory/NatvGrd.htm
Map	National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map
Link Gulf Islands National Seashore Fort Massachusetts History http://www.nps.gov/guis/extended/MIS/MHistory/Forts.htm
Map	Tracks of Major Southern Hurricanes, 1969-1986 from Land of the South
Link Ship Island Ferry http://www.msshipisland.com/ Print Materials Hollandsworth, James G. The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Weaver, C. P. Thank God My Regiment's an African One: The Civil War Diary of Nathan W. Daniels. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Ochs, Stephen J. A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

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Elegy for the Native Guards | Recommended Resources

Published: 10 June 2005

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