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Pat, who was the highest ranking immigrant in the Confederate Services ?

Respectfully,

William
Civilian would be J.P. Benjamin.

Now the normal answer to the question of the highest ranking army officer is:
1. Patrick Cleburne confirmed as Major General on April 22, 1863
2. Camille de Polinac was confirmed as Major General on June 13, 1864

I am guessing that someone here knows more than I do and will come up with someone else.
 
Yes, most were from Louisiana, where they had been living since they shipped out with the Spaniards. But some were picked up as crewmen for Union ships - think the Shenandoah picked up some Filipinos, too.

Are you talking about people from Manila Village?
 
That's one of the settlements. Think it was in the 1590's they came with the Spanish? Louisiana always fascinates me - Katrina flushed out a tribe of Spanish-speaking people who had been in the bayous for centuries, for instance.

I've read that they came to the coast of Panama in the 1590's and that they jumped ship from Spanish ships in the later 1700s and 1800s. It's Louisiana, so who knows exactly what is true?

They did fight with Lafitte at the Battle of New Orleans, I believe. Considering that they were his neighbors in Barataria Bay, that's probably true. Lafitte should probably be mounted on the horse in the French Quarter, with Jackson standing on the ground holding the reins, but that's another story.

The rangers at Jean Lafitte National Park might know more about their history in the Civil War. Manila Village was in the Bay past the Village of Lafitte.
 
I've read that they came to the coast of Panama in the 1590's and that they jumped ship from Spanish ships in the later 1700s and 1800s. It's Louisiana, so who knows exactly what is true?

They did fight with Lafitte at the Battle of New Orleans, I believe. Considering that they were his neighbors in Barataria Bay, that's probably true. Lafitte should probably be mounted on the horse in the French Quarter, with Jackson standing on the ground holding the reins, but that's another story.

The rangers at Jean Lafitte National Park might know more about their history in the Civil War. Manila Village was in the Bay past the Village of Lafitte.
Boy this is one I did not know about.
 
Manila Village was on stilts out in Barataria Bay, which is where Lafitte was located on an island, before the U.S. government confiscated his boats, before he told Andrew Jackson to move his barricades further into the swamp to make the red wool coated British tramp through swamps where no one would usually dare venture.

Hurricane Betsy wiped it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_Village

This has a photo of Manila Village in the 1800s.http://blog.nola.com/westbank/2013/07/filipino_contributions_to_lafi.html
 
Manila Village was on stilts out in Barataria Bay, which is where Lafitte was located on an island, before the U.S. government confiscated his boats, before he told Andrew Jackson to move his barricades further into the swamp to make the red wool coated British tramp through swamps where no one would usually dare venture.

Hurricane Betsy wiped it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_Village

This has a photo of Manila Village in the 1800s.http://blog.nola.com/westbank/2013/07/filipino_contributions_to_lafi.html
Great photo.
 
You may recognize this photo of one of the cemeteries at Lafitte--it's been in a lot of movies.
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1910 census of manila village
 
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