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.
An integrated labor union violently suppressed by lumber barons.
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.
A civil rights unionist from Pointe Coupee Parish, Clark faced frequent violence in his efforts to organize tenant farmers.
The post-Civil War period in US history is known as the Reconstruction era, when the former Confederacy was brought back into the Union.
The post-Civil War period is known as the Reconstruction era, when the former Confederacy was brought back into the Union.
Five thousand to ten thousand white Louisianans fought for the Union during the Civil War.
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