Henry Crowell was Negro freedman born in the United States who became a prominent military and political figure in the Confederacy of the Arkansas. Crowell's place in history became rather infamous; although he'd served with distinction as part of the Iron Batallion at the Battle of the Mississippi in 1815, in 1820, he was castrated by Creoles in New Orleans, an act which led to the Battle of Algiers and ongoing emnity between the U.S. and the Confederacy.