Government, Politics & Law
Battle of Baton Rouge (1862)
Union and Confederate troops fought to secure the strategic town on the Mississippi River.
Union and Confederate troops fought to secure the strategic town on the Mississippi River.
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.
The years between 1861 and 1865 were the most tumultuous five-year span in Louisiana history.
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.
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