1865 - Discharge Certificate for Robert Brown from the first black Union unit established in the Civil War, the Louisiana Native Guard Volunteers – Signed by Captain Hannibal Carter, an African-American who had formerly been a Confederate private in the first black Civil War unit, the 1st Louisiana Native Guard
Ship Island, Mississippi: 1865. This Union Army “Certificate to be Given to Union Volunteers at the Time of their Discharge” was issued to Robert Brown, an African-American private in the 2nd Louisiana Native Guards and signed by Captain Hannibal Carter, his African-American company commander. It was given to Brown at..... More