Harrison Thomas LaTour (born February 9, 1968), a native of Muskogee, Oklahoma, a notable genealogist, historian, and is known for being the first African Louisiana Creole member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), Oklahoma Division. He is a member of the SCV's First Cherokee Mounted Volunteers Camp #1501 (Edmond, Oklahoma). His great-great-great grandfather, Leufroy Pierre Auguste, was a private in Co. K, 16th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry (Camp Moore) of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Private Leufroy Pierre-Auguste was a gen de couleur libre creole Confederate soldier who served under Col. Daniel Gober, Brig. Gen. Daniel Weisiger Adams, and Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge, who became the 14th Vice-President of the United States. Ancestry of Harrison Thomas LaTour Mr. Harrison Leon Thomas incorrectly uses the surname La Tour. His link to the La Tour family is on his maternal side.
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