The Donald L. Logan Civil War Memorial Page – People – Commissioned Civil War Officers
Morris W. Morris/ Lewis Morrison (1845-1906)
Lewis Morrison was one of the most prominent stage actors of his time. He was best known worldwide for his...
Andrew Callioux (1820-1863)
Andrew Callioux, Captain of the First Louisiana Native Guards Regiment, Union Army, became a hero while leading his troops at...
Oscar J. Dunn (ca. 1825-1871)
Oscar James Dunn was Louisiana’s first black lieutenant governor, serving from 1868 to 1871, and one of three who held...
Caesar Carpenter Antoine (1836-1921)
Caesar Carpenter “C.C.” Antoine is best known as a leading African American politician in Louisiana during Reconstruction (1863-1877). Antoine was...
H. Ford Douglas (1831-1865)
Captain Hezekiah Ford Douglas was born in Virginia in 1831 to a white man named William Douglas, and an enslaved...
Robert Smalls (1839 -1915)
Robert Smalls was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, on April 5, 1839 and worked as a house slave until the...
Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885)
Martin Robison Delany was an African American abolitionist, the first African American Field Officer in the U.S Army, and one...
Charleton Tandy (1836-1919)
Charleton Tandy was born in Kentucky in 1836 to parents who were free only because his grandparents had purchased the...
William Dominick Matthews (1827-1906)
William Dominick Matthews was a Civil War officer in the Union Army and is best known for leading the First...
