Charles F. Lutz, a freedman, enlists in Company F, of the Eighth Louisiana Volunteer Infantry. 

       Postscript: Lutz saw action in the Battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.  In 1900 he was awarded a Confederate Veteran’s pension.

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Subsequent Events:

References:

James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy, The South Was Right!, (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1994), 94.

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