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D-6 Sunday, September 20, 1998 Military People Attic ffimd Diary outlines adventures of black Civil War soldiers Navy Airman Derek R. Green, son of Jacqulyn J. Green of Alexandria, recently completed U.S. Navy Basic Training at recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, DL He is a graduate of Peabody Magnet High. Navy Seaman Recruit Earnest Ladday, a 1998 graduate of Centerville High School, recently completed U.S.

Navy basic training Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, DL Navy Fireman Richard D. Abraham, son of John A. and Janis Abraham of Natchitoches, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, EL He is a 1998 graduate of St. Mary's High School Air Force Airman John W.

Holmes has graduated from basic Military at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Holmes is the son of Bill and Brenda Holmes of Pinevffle. He is a 1997 graduate of Pineville High School. Air Force Airman Todd V. Hankey has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force base, San Antonio, Texas.

Hankey is the son of Selwyn D. Robison of Anacoco and Royce Grant of Groves, Texas. He is a 1997 graduate of Evans High School. Marine Lance Cpl. Curtis D.

Peters, son of Bernice Taylor of Leesville, recently completed a six-month deployment to Okinawa with 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines. He is a 1998 graduate of Leesville High School. Duncan and John H. Whitehead Jr. of Alexandria, recently received the Marine Corps Good Conduct MedaL Whitehead is currently assigned with Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 121, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, San Diego, Calif.

He is a 1995 graduate of Alexandria Senior High School. Marine Cpl. Damien Castro, son of Miriam I. King of Pitkin, recently was promoted to his present rank and reported for duty with 3rd Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Force Service Support Group, Okinawa, Japan. He is a 1996 graduate of Centreville High School of Clifton, Va.

Navy Seaman Recruit Jonathan Ballard, son of Barbara E. Wheeler of Winnfield, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, EL He is a 1998 graduate of Winnfield Senior High School Navy Seaman Recruit Marcus B. Ballard, son of Otis T. Ballard of Calvin, recently completed U.S.

Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, HI. Navy Seaman Recruit Jeremy L. Bordelon, a 1997 graduate Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts of Natchitoches, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, 111. Navy Airman Recruit Brenton L.

Sattler, a 1998 graduate of Louisiana National Guard Military School of Pineville, recently completed U.S. Navy Basic Training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Dl. Michael D. Harris has graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Advanced Camp at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Wash. Harris is the son of Ceola and Jimmy L.

Harris of DeRidder. His wife, LaTasha, is the daughter of Clifford and Francis Moody of Decatur, Ga. He is a 1989 graduate of DeRidder High School. Tarkitha L. Copes has graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Advanced Camp at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Wash.

Ms. Copes is the daughter of Linda F. Copes of Leesville and granddaughter of Sadie P. Garrett of Homer, La. Air Force Airman William T.

Gresham has graduated from the information management apprentice course at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss. Gresham is the son of Theresa M. Robinson of and Roy L. Robinson, both of DeRidder. He is a 1996 graduate of DeRidder High School.

Air Force Airman James F. Ligon IV has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Ligon is the son of Kathy Y. Ligon of and James F. Ligon HI of both of Pineville.

He is a 1997 graduate of Pineville High School. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Prentiss Hammons, son of Rick and Myra Connelly of Deville, recently joined NATO's Standing Naval Forces Mediterranean while on a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea aboard the destroyer USS Deyo, home ported in Norfolk, Va. Marine Cpl. John H. Whitehead, son of Renee S.

the soldiers, and of Ship Island, where they were stationed. All of the photos were faded; some virtually faded away. From the moment she began reading, Weaver found the journal compelling. Daniels' writing was clear, if matter-of-fact, and his days were full of action with stories of the Mississippi River blockade and gunboats and alarms and men rushing to their posts. In its own way, she found, it was a page-turner.

"I was hooked," she says. "It was intriguing right from the start. You want to know what's going to happen next." But transcribing it was rough. Weaver started out working by hand, copying the diary onto a legal pad. She quickly moved to a word processor.

She needed a magnifying glass to decipher the writing, which got smaller when Daniels had a lot to say. His penmanship was good, she says, but there was still words that stumped her for days. Worst was the cross-writing as she calls it A common practice in its day, when stationary was dear, a writer would fill a page, then turn the paper halfway around and write over it in another direction. It was devilishly hard to untangle. The diary was originally the property of a cotton merchant, Hamilton McNeil Vance, who filled the first third of it with his account of the occupation of New Orleans.

Daniels apparently entered Vance's house and appropriated the diary. He made note of the moment in his first entry: "Captured in the house of a Confederate, November 3, 1862." He did not make another entry until Jan. 12, 1863, when he arrived on Ship Island. The regiment's assignment was to keep the strategic island in defensible condition. They were also instructed to monitor blockades in the Mississippi sound and to guard the 50 prisoners of war being held there.

They even saw combat in a skirmish at Pascagoula, which marked the first time black troops fought under black officers in the war. "Daniel's had high expectations for these men," Weaver says. "He drilled them hard. He kept saying they were going to be perfect by the time he finished with them." NEW ORLEANS (AP) When CP. Weaver was a child growing up in Massachusetts, she spent many an evening at the dinner table listening to her mother's tales of an ancestor whose papers and documents were stored in the attic.

"She would babble on and on about it she was fascinated," Weaver says. "My two older brothers were like, here she goes again. And my father was sort of ho-hum, that's nice dear. I was interested. I listened." Decades later, in 1989, Weaver went to see the movie "Glory," about a troop of black soldiers in the Civil War, and it stirred something in her memory.

She went back the next night with her husband, and back again and again with her children and her friends over the next two weeks. "About the third time I went, I brought pencil and paper along and I sat there making notes in the dark," she says. "They were saying in the movie that the Massachusetts 54th was the first black regiment to do this and that and I was thinking, I don't know. I don't think that's right. It just bugged me." In fact it wasn't right.

What Weaver vaguely remembered was that in the trunks and cartons her mother spoke of so often was an account of a white officer and the black soldiers he commanded in Louisiana. What she discovered in the stash by then in her own attic, since her mother's death was the diary of Union Col. Nathan W. Daniels, commander of the Second Louisiana Native Guards, one of the first black regiments organized in the Civil War. After years of work, the diary with commentary by Weaver is being published by LSU Press in a book called "Thank God My Regiment an African One." The fragile diary is large in format and hard-bound in textured brown paper, with leather corners embossed in gold.

In the center of the front cover are stamped the words, "Diary 1862." It is held together by black electrical tape applied, Weaver thinks, by her grandfather. As she turned the pages, she was delighted to find some of them pasted with photographs of Daniels and Conveyances $2,500.00. Rapides, Parish of to Anderson, Lt 21 Blk Sd Highland, $2,544.63. Stagg, Louis III to Cole, Ronald Sec 9 4N 3E, $95,000.00. Weil Company Inc to Giallonardo, Thomas Joseph, Sec 19 IN 1W, $18,000.00.

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