Draft:Felix Labatut

One old source describes him as white. Most other sources treat him as Creole and his confrontation with an editor is reportedly over aspersions about his ethnic heritage.

Felix Labatut was the colonel of a Confederate Army Native Guard regiment organized in Louisiana. It was forced to disband to a law requiring Confederate soldiers to be white. State senator?

An editor of the Argus newspaper made racist comments to him and Labatut whipped him. The two then jousted in print including Labutat's questioning "what can there be in common between the liberty of the press and the cowhiding of such a wrech as the editor of the Argus?

He signed Lousiiana's Secession Ordinance.

The New York Times touted his expected appointment commanding black volunteers soldiers in the Confederate Army in an article entitled "Black Warriors". His 1st Louisiana Native Guard (Confederate) was forced to disband after a law was passed in Louisiana limiting Confederate Army soldiering to whites.

He was the churchwarden of St. Louis Cathedral on Esplanade. He sued following his sale of land when it was involved in a sheriff's auction. The land sale was for a new cemetery.

A Republican, Democrat Charles J. Leeds defeated him in the 1873 election for Mayor of New Orleans.

His sister reportedly married a LeBlanc.

In 1833 he was one of the persons involved in incorporating a waterworks