18 Facts About Alcibiades DeBlanc

Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville DeBlanc was a lawyer and state legislator in Louisiana.

Alcibiades DeBlanc served as a colonel for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

Alcibiades DeBlanc was arrested briefly and held by US Marshals.

Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville DeBlanc was born in 1821 in St Martinville, Louisiana.

Alcibiades DeBlanc was the great-great-grandson of Louis Juchereau de St Denis, founder of Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Alcibiades DeBlanc was captain of Company C in the Eighth Louisiana Infantry, which became attached to the Army of Northern Virginia.

Alcibiades DeBlanc was promoted to major in 1862 and then lieutenant colonel at Fredericksburg, Virginia, on April 6,1863.

Alcibiades DeBlanc was captured at Banks Ford May 4,1863, and paroled at Old Capitol Prison in Washington a short time later.

Alcibiades DeBlanc suffered an arm wound and was promoted to the rank of colonel July 2,1863, by Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Alcibiades DeBlanc surrendered to Union General Francis J Herron in June 1865 and aided Herron in maintaining order in the former Confederate areas of Louisiana until Union forces arrived.

Alcibiades DeBlanc was a co-founder and commander of the Knights of the White Camelia.

The White League in Louisiana, which Alcibiades DeBlanc later joined and became a prominent commander for, and the Red Shirts and White-Liners in Mississippi used similar intimidation tactics in the 1870s against Republicans.

Alcibiades DeBlanc continued to oppose the Reconstruction effort; he was influential in commanding 600 men to oppose the disputed election of Governor William Kellogg in 1874.

Alcibiades DeBlanc's forces were among thousands of armed White League members in what was called the Battle of Liberty Place who opposed Metropolitan troops in New Orleans, then the seat of government.

Alcibiades DeBlanc was briefly arrested and held by US Marshals, but never charged.

Alcibiades DeBlanc was considered a hero and known as the "King of the Cadiens".

In 1877, DeBlanc was appointed by Democratic governor Francis T Nicholls as a Louisiana Supreme Court Justice after white Democrats regained political control in the state.

Alcibiades DeBlanc served January 9,1877, to April 5,1880, his service being ended by the passage of a new constitution changing the structure of the court.