Natasha Trethewey, Elegy for the Native Guards

Elegy for the Native Guards

Natasha Trethewey, Emory University

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Elegy for the Native Guards | Recommended Resources

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.

"Elegy for the Native Guards" is part of Poets in Place, an ongoing series of original videos featuring poets reading and discussing their poems in locations they write about.

Presentation Sections:

Elegy for the Native Guards | Recommended Resources