During the U.S.A. Civil War, free men of color and then freed black slaves
enlisted and served in the Union Army. I've been able to establish that
Joseph Alonzo Toca, Grandson of the first Toca in Louisiana, also Joseph
Alonzo Toca, served in the Union and possibly also for the Confederacy. The
Louisiana Native Guards were first formed by the Confederacy from free men
of color, but never accepted into the Confederet military. They were later
reconstituted as a fighting force by the Union and used in the