Andre Cailloux was one of the first black officers in the Union Army to be killed in combat during the American Civil War. Cailloux was born a slave on a plantation owned by Joseph Duvernay near Pointe ala Hache in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. When he was five, his master died and he became the possession […]
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