Henry Clay Warmoth
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Henry Clay Warmoth was an American attorney and veteran Civil War officer in the Union Army who was elected governor and state representative of Louisiana. A Republican, he was 26 years old when elect
Photo by William Kurtz, c. 1875
Henry Clay Warmoth, later in life
Warmoth with family and servants at the Magnolia Plantation in Plaquemines Parish
James Longstreet
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James Longstreet was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse". He served under Lee as a corps
Henry Clay Warmoth
…that had temporarily disenfranchised a portion of the former Confederates. Warmoth appointed some former Confederates to office, notably General James Longstreet. When he had a choice, Warmoth chose white applicants over black ones. Warmoth's 1868 inaugural address expressed his support for the recently passed…
James Longstreet
Sketch of Longstreet as a Confederate
Carte de Visite portrait of Longstreet
James Longstreet after the war