Huraian
Too many Americans today believe that the Confederate armies were made up of only White, Protestant and Anglo-Saxon Johnny Reb's! Really? Were they? What about the nearly 40,000 Confederate Irish Catholic soldiers? How about Cherokee Brigadier General Stand Watie and his thousands of Confederate Indian soldiers? Most were recruited from the so-called Five Civilized Tribes! What about the First Louisiana Native Guards, a New Orleans regiment formed in 1861, of 1,400 men, made up entirely of men o