G. Howard Hunter Archives

For both Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War, New Orleans was considered a strategic city at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

During the Civil War, immigrant communities in New Orleans generally supported the Union cause.

Thomas Overton Moore served as the fourteenth governor of Louisiana, leading the state through much of the Civil War.

Five thousand to ten thousand white Louisianans fought for the Union during the Civil War.

G. Howard Hunter