 Accounts of his heroism were widely reported in the press, and became a rallying cry for the recruitment of African Americans into the Union Army.His reputation as a patriot and martyr long outlived him.In an 1890 collection of interviews, Civil War veteran Colonel Douglass Wilson said, "If ever patriotic heroism deserved to be honored in stately marble or in brass that of Captain Caillioux deserves to be, and the American people will have never redeemed their gratitude to genuine patriotism until that debt is paid."