Draft:Nathan W. Daniels

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Nathan W. Daniels (1836-1867) was a commanding officer in the American Civil War serving with the 2nd Louisiana Native Guard Infantry Regiment in New Orleans and Ship Island, Mississippi. He then lived in Washington D.C. He was an advocate for the Freedmen's Bureau. He acquired a diary and expanded it with his own writings and scrap books news clippings, photographs, and illustration in three volumes.

Originally from New York and Ohio, he served in the Union Army and stayed in Louisiana after mustering out. He lived in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Benjamin Butler appointed him to lead the 2nd Louisiana Native Guard. He advocated afaijst discriminationnand ill treatment of black soldiers. In 1865 he married spiritualist medium Cora L. V. Hatch (1840-1923). It was a second marriage for both.

His legacy
His writings have been collected and published in 1998 and 2000.