Christopher Columbus Nash

Christopher Columbus Nash
Sheriff of Grant Parish, Louisiana
In office
1873–unknown
Personal details
Born(1838-07-01)July 1, 1838
Sabine Parish, Louisiana
US
DiedAfter 1922
PartyFusionist/Democratic Party
SpouseMalinda Williams Nash
Parent(s)Valentine and Mary Anderson Nash
OccupationMerchant; law-enforcement officer
Founding member of the White League

Christopher Columbus Nash (July 1, 1838 – June 29, 1922) was a Louisiana merchant and Democratic sheriff. In 1873, Nash led a company of white militiamen in the Colfax Massacre to take the courthouse in Colfax, from armed African-Americans. Three white men were killed; the number of African-Americans killed is estimated to have been between 60 and 150.

Nash participated in the formation of the White League, a white supremacist organization that claimed to defend a "hereditary civilization and Christianity menaced by a stupid Africanization". He was later buried in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

References

  1. ↑ "Nash, Christopher Columbus". A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (lahistory.org). Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Lewis, Danny (April 13, 2016). "The 1873 Colfax Massacre Crippled the Reconstruction Era". Smithsonian.com. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, in its article on Nash, uses these sources: Milton Dunn, Christopher Columbus Nash (1925), Mabel Fletcher Harrison and Lavinia McGuire McNeely, Grant Parish, Louisiana: A History (1969), and Manie White Johnson, "The Colfax Riot of April, 1873," Louisiana Historical Quarterly, XIII (1930).
  4. ↑ James K. Hogue The Battle of Colfax: Paramilitarism and Counterrevolution in Louisiana (June 2006), p. 21
  5. ↑ Reed, Adolph Jr. (June 1993). "The battle of Liberty Monument - New Orleans, Louisiana white supremacist statue". The Progressive. 57 (6). Archived from the original on May 11, 2005. Retrieved May 18, 2010 – via FindArticles.
  6. ↑ "American Cemetery". ruscahouse.com. Retrieved December 15, 2010.