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    Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville DeBlanc (1821-1883) was a Confederate colonel, white supremacist militant, and Louisiana Supreme Court justice. During Reconstruction, he founded the Knights of the White Camellia to suppress freedmen's voting and disrupt Republican organizing through intimidation and violence. In 1868, this helped Democrats regain control of Louisiana's government, though a congressional investigation later overturned results due to fraud and intimidation. DeBlanc continued opposing Reconstruction and was briefly jailed before Democrats regained control in 1876.

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    Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville DeBlanc (1821-1883) was a Confederate colonel, white supremacist militant, and Louisiana Supreme Court justice. During Reconstruction, he founded the Knights of the White Camellia to suppress freedmen's voting and disrupt Republican organizing through intimidation and violence. In 1868, this helped Democrats regain control of Louisiana's government, though a congressional investigation later overturned results due to fraud and intimidation. DeBlanc continued opposing Reconstruction and was briefly jailed before Democrats regained control in 1876.

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    Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville DeBlanc (1821-1883) was a Confederate colonel, white supremacist militant, and Louisiana Supreme Court justice. During Reconstruction, he founded the Knights of the White Camellia to suppress freedmen's voting and disrupt Republican organizing through intimidation and violence. In 1868, this helped Democrats regain control of Louisiana's government, though a congressional investigation later overturned results due to fraud and intimidation. DeBlanc continued opposing Reconstruction and was briefly jailed before Democrats regained control in 1876.

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    Alcibiades DeBlanc

    Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville DeBlanc


    (September 16, 1821 November 8, 1883) was a lawyer
    and state legislator in Louisiana. He served as a Colonel
    for the Confederate States Army during the American
    Civil War. Afterward, he founded the Knights of the
    White Camellia, a white insurgent militia that operated from 1867-69 to suppress freedmen's voting, disrupt Republican Party political organizing and try to
    regain political control of the state government in the
    1868 election.[1] A Congressional investigation overturned 1868 election results in Louisiana.

    der in the former Confederate areas of Louisiana until


    Union forces arrived.[2][3]

    3 Knights of the White Camellia


    DeBlanc was the founder and commander (from 18671868) of the Knights of the White Camellia. This was an
    insurgent group founded to oppose the implementation of
    Congressional Reconstruction in Louisiana; it was similar
    to chapters of Ku Klux Klan and later paramilitary groups
    in Louisiana and other states. The goal of the Knights of
    the White Camellia was victory for the Democratic party,
    by whatever means necessary, in the presidential election
    of November 1868. This was achieved. More votes were
    counted for the Democratic candidate, Horatio Seymour,
    than there were registered Democratic voters in the state.
    Due to the widespread violence and intimidation tactics
    against blacks in the eort to suppress freedmen's voting,
    in addition to electoral fraud, a congressional investigation resulted in overturning the results of the 1868 election in Louisiana.

    But DeBlanc continued to oppose the Reconstruction effort; he was inuential in commanding 600 men to oppose
    the disputed election of Governor William Pitt Kellogg
    in 1874 and try to seat the Democrats. He was briey
    arrested and held by US Marshals. In 1876 he was appointed by Democratic governor Francis T. Nicholls as a
    Louisiana Supreme Court Justice after white Democrats
    regained political control in the state.[1]

    Early life and family

    The Knights of the White Camellia were no longer acJean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville DeBlanc was
    tive after the 1868 election, but other paramilitary groups
    born in 1821 in St. Martinville, Louisiana. He had French
    arose to carry on an insurgency with the goal of regainancestors, whose descendants had been in Louisiana since
    ing political control. The White League in Louisiana and
    the early colonial period.
    the Red Shirts and White-Liners in Mississippi used similar intimidation tactics in the 1870s against Republicans.
    Elections were surrounded by violence and fraud.

    Civil war

    DeBlanc also continued to oppose the Reconstruction effort; he was inuential in commanding 600 men to oppose
    the disputed election of Governor William Kellogg in
    1874. His forces were among thousands of armed white
    militia in what was called the Battle of Liberty Place who
    opposed Metropolitan troops in New Orleans, then the
    seat of government. They took control of the legislature
    and major buildings for three days before retreating in advance of federal troops. DeBlanc was briey arrested and
    held by US Marshals but was never charged. He was considered a hero and known as the King of the Cadiens
    (Acadians). [1]

    A lawyer and former state legislator, DeBlanc enlisted


    June 19, 1861 at Camp Moore, Louisiana. He was captain of Company C in the Eighth Louisiana Infantry,
    which became attached to the Army of Northern Virginia. He was promoted to major in 1862 and then lieutenant colonel at Fredericksburg, Virginia on April 6,
    1863. He was captured at Banks Ford May 4, 1863 and
    paroled at Old Capitol Prison in Washington a short time
    later.
    He was present at the Battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863
    where he assumed command of a regiment when the regiments commander was killed. He suered an arm wound
    and was promoted to the rank of colonel July 2, 1863 by
    President Jeerson Davis. Upon returning to Louisiana
    in 1864, he commanded Confederate reserve troops at
    Natchitoches. He surrendered to Union General Francis
    Herron in June 1865 and aided Herron in maintaining or-

    In 1876 DeBlanc was appointed by Democratic governor


    Francis T. Nicholls as a Louisiana Supreme Court Justice after white Democrats regained political control in
    the state.[1] Federal troops were withdrawn the following
    year.[4] He served until 1879, when a new constitution
    was passed changing the structure of the court. DeBlanc
    returned to St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish.
    1

    Death

    He died in 1883 at the age of nearly 62.

    References

    [1] Obituary: Gen. Alcibiade DeBlanc, New York Times,


    10 November 1883
    [2] Andrew Booth, compiler, Records of Louisiana confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands (New
    Orleans: no publisher, 1920)p. 572
    [3] Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville DeBlanc, Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, published by the
    Louisiana Historical Association in cooperation with
    the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of
    Louisiana-Lafayette, 1988. See page 222.
    [4] J. Dauphine, The Knights of the White Camellia in
    Louisiana, 1867-1869, M.A. Thesis, University of
    Louisiana-Lafayette, 1983.

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