Joseph Stillwell Cain, Jr. (Joe Cain) (October 10, 1832 – April 17, 1904)is largely credited with the initiation of modern way of observance of Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Alabama, following the Civil War.In 1868, following a visit the previous year to New Orleans and while Mobile was still under Union occupation, Joe Cain paraded through the streets of Mobile, dressed in improvised costume depicting a fictional Chickasaw chief named Slacabamorinico. The choice was a backhanded insult to the Union forces in that the Chickasaw tribe had never been defeated in war. Joe was joined at some point by six other Confederate veterans, parading in a decorated coal wagon, playing drums and horns, and the group became the "L. C. Minstrel Band", now commonly referred to as the "Lost Cause Minstrels" of Mobile.