"A colored battalion was organized for the defense of New Orleans, and General Jackson publicly thanked them for their courage and conduct."
— Andrew Jackson

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Henry Wilson, Colored Patriots of the American Revolution (1855), by William Cooper Nell, p. 107