Horace Washington (4th LA Native Guards)
Horace Washington was born into slavery around 1838 in Albemarle County, Virginia. In the early 1850s, his owner may have sold him to slave trader Thomas Boudar, who split his time between Richmond and New Orleans. According to Louisiana slave manifest records, a Horace Washington of the same height and relative age arrived in New Orleans aboard the Cyane on October 29, 1852. Washington enlisted in the Union army in New Orleans on February 16, 1863, for a period of three years. He mustered in as a corporal in Company C of the 4th Louisiana Native Guards Infantry Regiment two days later. Washington spent just three months with the regiment before dying from a unknown disease in Baton Rouge on May 11, 1863.
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| Name: | Washington, Horace |
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| Roles: |
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| Gender: | M |
| Race: | Black |
| Regiment/Ship: |
| Regiment | Company |
| 4th Regiment Infantry Lousiana Native Guards | C |
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| Branch of service: | Army |
| Enlistment/Muster: |
| Type | Date | Place | Accepted/Rejected | Age | Status | Reason |
| Enlistment | 1863-02-16 | New Orleans, LA | accepted | 25 | Unknown | |
| Muster In | 1863-02-18 | New Orleans, LA | | | | |
| Muster Out | 1863-05-11 | Baton Rouge, LA | | | | Death |
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| Residence at enlistment: | |
| Rank In: | Corporal |
| Rank Out: | Corporal |
| Highest rank achieved: | Corporal |
| Birth date: | 1838 |
| Birth date certainty: | About |
| Birth place: | Albemarle County, VA |
| Death date: | 1863-05-11 |
| Death place: | Baton Rouge, LA |
| Causes of death: | disease: unknown |
| Occupations: | Cooper |
| Relationships: |
| Person 1 | Relation Type | Person 2 |
| Boudar, Thomas | owner of | Washington, Horace |
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SOURCES
Compiled Service Records for Horace Washington, RG94, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington, D.C.; Louisiana Slave Manifest, 1852, accessed through Ancestry.com; Frederick A. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 3 (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908); Hank Trent, The Secret Life of Bacon Tait (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2017), 38, 130.
