Latinos in the American Civil War 

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 CSA Capt. Joseph De La Garza killed
in the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana.
USA Capt. Rafael Chacon, Co. K,
First Regt. New Mexico Volunteers

 
 
 
Tejano Union soldier
Assistant Surgeon Rufino Olloqui

 
 
 
Capt. Carlos Alvarez de la Mesa, 39th N.Y. Inf. Regt.
(1828-1872)
Plot Sec: 26, Site: 5227, Arlington National Cemeter
Pvt. Jose Meer, 127th N.Y. Infantry Regiment
(1832-Aug. 2, 1864)
Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, S.C.

 
 
 
Capt. Joseph Torrens (Barcelona, Dec. 13, 1820-Washington, D.C. April 23, 1895) 39th NY, and wife Mary Murphy (1845-April 23, 1902, Arlington National Cemetery
Pvt. Juan Castaņo, 104 N.Y. Inf.
(Spain, 1839-May 17, 1864)
POW, Andersonville, Ga. 

 
 
 
Antonio Alsina, Company I, 152 Pennsylvania Infantry (1835--Nov. 21, 1916)
Antonio Alsina, lower left, Mountain Home National Cemetery, Johnson City, TN

 
 
 
Emanuel Cruso, Lebanon National Cemetery, Lebanon, KY
Emanuel Cruso, Company I, U.S. 4th Infantry, Sept. 6, 1871

 
 
 
Pvt. Emanuel Gomez, Alexandria National Cemetery, Va.
Pvt. Emanuel Gomez, Alexandria National Cemetery, Va.





Cubans in the U.S. Civil War

Mexicans in the U.S. Civil War

39th New York State Volunteers Garibaldi Guards

Descendants of 'Confederados' find Southern roots

Alonzo, Felipe 3rd U.S. Artillery

Alonzo, Petro

Alvarez de la Mesa, Capt.

Bazaar, Philip (Chile)

Cavallero, Santiago (1st. New York Engineers)

Cruso, Emanuel

De Riva, Phillip

Duarte, Jose (39th NY Infantry)

Echeverria, M. G.

Fernandez, Jose aka Juan Oliber

Fernandez, Jose (1905 Surgeon's certificate).

Fernandez, Pedro (1864 substitute for Benjamin Brewster)
Benjamin Brewster (1860 Brooklyn census)

Garcia, Manuel, 84th NY Infantry (Certificate of disability for discharge)

Gonzales, Alois (Killed at the Battle of Olustee, Fl., Feb. 20, 1864)

Luque, Francisco (N.Y. state recruitment authorization, Feb. 17, 1863)

Marshall, Henry B. 54th Mass. Infantry

Perez, Julian 47th NY Infantry (Court martial, Sept. 3, 1863)

Porras, Jose Flores 39th NY Infantry

Hispanic Confederates

Spain and the American Civil War: Relations at Mid-Century, 1855-1868 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Ser., Vol. 70, No. 4. (1980), pp. 1-121.

LOUISIANA MILITIA
Voluntarios Catalanes de la Luisiana (January 1851)
Cazadores Espaņoles Regiment, Louisiana Militia
Louisiana Legion Index 1814-1879
Louisiana Militia 1860-1861
Historical Militia Data on Louisiana Militia, January 1861
Historical Militia Data on Louisiana Militia, February-March 1861
Historical Militia Data on Louisiana Militia, June 1861
Louisiana Officers of U.S. Volunteers in the Mexican War
Muster Rolls of Louisiana Militia in Mexican War 1846
Louisiana Militia Companies 1824-1915
Louisiana Washington Artillery (1838-1923)
Louisiana Militia, May 1846
Louisiana Militia 1847-48