History

African Americans in the Civil War
African Americans, both freed and enslaved, played critical roles in Civil War Louisiana.
African Americans, both freed and enslaved, played critical roles in Civil War Louisiana.
The Antebellum period in Louisiana begins with statehood in 1812 and ends with Louisiana joining the Confederacy in 1860.
Union and Confederate troops fought to secure the strategic town on the Mississippi River.
Camp Moore in Louisiana served as the training location for more than 20,000 Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.
Louisiana seceded from the Union, sent thousands of Confederate soldiers out of state, witnessed occupation, and saw the emancipation of more than 300,000 enslaved people.
As a member of the Confederate States of America, Louisiana provided soldiers who fought outside the state.
More than 50,000 white men from Louisiana shouldered arms for the Confederacy.
For both Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War, New Orleans was considered a strategic city at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
The strategic location of Louisiana's Florida Parishes made them significant to Union forces during the Civil War.
Guerrilla warfare in Civil War Louisiana attacked both Confederate and Union forces, as well as civilians.
Archaeologists at sites across Louisiana help fill in the written record through physical excavations of the past.
Bavarian immigrant Michael Hahn served as the first Union governor of Louisiana for one year during the Civil War.
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