Colfax Massacre descendants set out to correct historical account Website: Kent Plantation. We need contributions from you, our readers, to ensure the Bayou Brief can continue its work. "Once I started research, the official records from the Army indicated that yes, there was a riot but there were no soldiers killed," said Simpson. The most plausible would be maybe 20 to 30 soldiers would be killed that could conceivably, I thought, be concealed, says Dr. Simpson. The bodies were removed, and taken to the site of an old mine, where the executioners did their best to hide the identities of the corpses. Lake Buhlow in Pineville features high-speed motorboat racing, and the Alexandria Riverfront Center hosts statewide conventions and galas. Because he had recently moved to Louisiana,he had not but the conversation spurred his interest in the subject. But to actually excavate remains - first, of all, you need court orders to do that for an exhumation.". "Getting them out and putting them on the freight trains," he said. Its rumored they could be in Pinevilles Holly Oak Cemetery. And he also knows when there is something unusual like what we would call a mass grave - like when bodies are extremely close together to the point of overlapping.". Where they had never lived in segregation or the social etiquette that went along with how to negotiate interactions with whites. "It took months and months to get this arranged, but this is actually the easy part," said Wynne of getting Holt and his team here. Photograph of Alexandria police by Win McNamee/Getty Images. allegedly fired his gun at a Black soldier leaving the Ritz Theater, attempting to arrest the man for disorderly conduct. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. He has appeared as a guest on CNN, MSNBC, and the BBC, and he's been the subject of profiles in The Washington Post, The Advocate, and Huffington Post. Camp Claiborne, like many things in Louisiana, is buried above ground. The editor escaped; and a hundred dead negroes, and perhaps a hundred more wounded and crippled, a dead white Radical, a dead Democrat, and three or four wounded Democrats are the upshot of the business., The groups managed to achieve their ultimate purpose, as was borne out by the results of the November presidential elections. March Massacre At Pepper Lounge Hosted By ALICIA LOPEZ. After doing research, Wynne knew they were going to need a ground penetrating radar device to discover whether a mass grave could existat the cemetery. The places we choose to forget often contain stories we would rather not tell. The soldiers were all unarmed; the military police and state troopers, however, had an arsenal at their disposal. William Ward's white rival in Colfax, the Fusionist James W. Hadnot, had told one of his black laborers that he . Iles and Berry were certain that lives were lost; it was impossible to reach any other conclusion after observing the carnage. I only know one thing and that is, whenever anybody says, Remember Pearl Harbor, I will say, I will remember Lee Street.'. The contradiction between the official report and oral history is what kept Simpson interested.