EDOUARD NOIRSAIN, A BELGIAN

IN TEXAS AND DURING THE CIVIL WAR

At the Club House, presentation by Serge Noirsain: "Edouard Noirsain, a Belgian in Texas and during the Civil War, 1855-1863". The lecturer will recount the adventures of his ancestor, a little Belgian bourgeois who abandoned his property, his lucrative profession and a comfortable life to immerse himself into the hell of the Texas border and New-Mexico. In 1861, after obtaining the American nationality, he joined the 31st Pennsylvania Regiment as a hospital steward to fight southern slavers. Serge’s presentation will be illustrated by a photograph of his descendent and his parents, by army documents mentioning the name of the officer who recruited him, the  date and place of his enlistment, his personality and the papers of his successive assignments in the staff of his two regiments.