DELANY AND CAILLOUX, BLACK UNION OFFICERS

Union Major Martin R. Delany of renown in multiple regards also reminds me of heroic 1st Louisiana Captain Andre Cailloux, also a free black man, like Delany, who fell at Port Hudson, Louisiana, in May, 1863, while leading a Union charge against that Confederate, Mississippi River fortification. Major Martin R. Delany boasted "that there lives none blacker than himself" in Frank A. Rollin's LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF MARTIN R. DELANY (1868). Captain Cailloux, a cigar maker, made a like claim, as the informative historical article attests. https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/the-rock-of-new-orleans/?fbclid=IwAR3H4rrts66fNGK4_wXw4Lv-8QO7gC2GKVMG2yOCI3HHwMAp_PhGPuTJCp4