THE LaNG CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Saturday, June 15, 2002

Title page from "A Camp and Garrison Manual for Volunteers and Militia,"
by S. M. Quincy, Colonel of the 73rd Infantry, U.S.C.T. (originally the 1st Regiment, Louisiana Native Guards)
Photocopy from the Library of Congress.

PROGRAM
as of May 15, 2002

SATURDAY MORNING -- Port Hudson State Historic Site, Port Hudson, Louisiana

8:00-8:30 A.M.   Registration and the opportunity to view exhibits in the museum.

8:30-8:35 A.M.   Welcome -- Greg Potts, Manager, Port Hudson State Historic Site

8:35-9:00 A.M.    Living history presentation -- Murry Dorty

9:10-10:00 A..M.  Archeological Evidence of the Native Guards' Assault on May 27, 1863 -- Kenneth A.. Ashworth, U. S. Corps of Engineers and Volunteer Archeologist for the Port Hudson Historic Site

10:00-12:00 N      Guided tour of the Port Hudson battlefield (including the ground over which the Native Guards charged on May 27, 1863) --  Mike Fraering, Curator, Port Hudson State Historic Site, and Kenneth Ashworth

12:00-1:00 P.M.    Lunch on your own & travel to St. Francisville
 

SATURDAY AFTERNOON -- Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site, St. Francisville, Louisiana

1:00-1:05 P.M.    Introductions – Jim Hollandsworth, Author of The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

1:05-1:10 P.M.    Welcome – Parke Moore, Manager, Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site

1:10-1:40 P.M.    Living History of the Louisiana Native Guards -- Geraldine Smith & Ramon Johnson, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

1:40-2:10 P.M.    From Attic to Archives: The Journey of an Accidental Historian – C. P. Weaver, Editor of Thank God My Regiment an African One: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels

2:10-3:00 P.M.    Break & tour of the Rosedown plantation house

3:00-3:45 P.M.    "Black Spartacus": Captain Andre Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards -- Stephen Ochs, Author of A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans

3:45-4:15 P.M.   The Native Guards and the National Archives -- Budge Weidman, Project Manager of the Civil War Conservation Corps at the National Archives in Washington, D. C.

4:15-4:30 P.M.   Break

4:30-5:30 P.M.   Meet the descendants – Isiah Edwards & Greg Osborn, Moderators

Topics and times subject to change.

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