demand from him whatever service he can render."

At first it was proposed to pay the officers of negro troops less than
was paid the officers of white soldiers, but this plan was abandoned.
Toward the close of the war nearly all the chaplains appointed to negro
regiments were negroes; non-commissioned officers were selected from the
ranks, where they were found as well qualified as those taken from the
ranks of white regiments. In the 10th and 18th Corps it was a common
thing for the orderly sergeants to call their company's roll from
memory, and the records of many companies and regiments are kept at the
War Department in Washington, as mementoes of their efficiency.

Such were the men who commanded the Black Phalanx. The following are the
names of the negro commissioned officers of the Butler Louisiana
Regiments:

ROSTER OF NEGRO OFFICERS OF THE LOUISIANA NATIVE GUARD VOLUNTEER
REGIMENTS.

FIRST REGIMENT.

Capts. Andrew Cailloux, Louis A. Snaer, John Depass,
" Henry L. Rey, Edward Carter, Joseph Follin,
" James Lewis, James H. Ingraham, Aleide Lewis.
Lieuts. Lewis Petit, Ernest Sougpre, J. G. Parker,
" J. E. Morre, Wm. Harding, John Hardman,
" F. Kimball, V. Lesner, J. D. Paddock,
" Louis D. Lucien.

SECOND REGIMENT.

Major F. E. Dumas,[21]
Capts. E. A. Bertinnean, Hannibal Carter, E. P. Chase,
" W. P. Barrett, S. W. Ringgold, P. B. S. Pinchback,
" William Bellez, Monroe Menllim, Joseph Villeverde,
" Samuel J. Wilkerson, R. H. Isabella.
Lieuts. Octave Rey, J. P. Lewis, Jasper Thompson,
" Ernest Murphy, Calvin Glover, J. Wellington,
" Louis Degray, George T. Watson, Joseph Jones,
" Alphonso Fluery, Rufus Kinsley, Ernest Hubian,
" Theo. A. Martin, Soloman Hoys, Alfred Arnis,
" Peter O. Depremont.

THIRD REGIMENT.

Capts. Jacques Gla, Peter A. Gardner, Leon G. Forstall,
" Joseph C. Oliver, Charles W. Gibbons, Samuel Laurence,
" John J. Holland.
Lieuts. Paul Paree, Morris W. Morris, Emile Detrege,
" Eugene Rapp, E. T. Nash, Alfred Bourgoan,
" E. Moss, Chester W. Converse, G. B. Mil