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Military activity and Louisiana's role in the Civil War.
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The Bayou State inevitably became a target for Union land and naval military operations because of its strategic position at the mouth of the Mississippi River as well as the importance of New Orleans as a manufacturing, banking, and trade center. Though not generally thought of as a major battleground during the Civil War, Louisiana was the scene of four military campaigns and 566 military actions of varying size and significance. Thus Louisiana's military role played an integral part in the outcome of the war and had repercussions that extended well beyond the state line.
This volume demonstrates the Union's focus on dividing the Confederacy and securing land access by water. Many battles discussed herein detail encounters with Confederates determined to preserve their land and livelihood. Despite the importance of the 'Mighty Mississippi' in the Union campaign to quell the rebellion. Federal troops struggled to capture territory along Louisiana's many rivers, swamps and low-lying bayous. This volume offers not only an excellent sample of the state's military experience during the Civil War, but it also highlights the participation of both black Union and Confederate troops (including neighboring Texans), analyzes the career of General Richard Taylor, explores the consolidation of Union troops and the activities of Jayhawkers, and discusses the construction and use of Confederate earthwork fortifications. Moreover, this edition provides a glimpse of both sides of the battlefield and of life on the homefront for Louisiana's inhabitants who faced both violence and economic ruin. This copy belongs on the bookshelf of any individual interested in Louisiana's Civil War military experience. This edition takes the reader beyond the Union occupation of New Orleans and the Battle of Baton Rouge and into the trenches, small towns, and backwater areas of Louisiana's bloody skirmishes between Union and Confederate forces. Volume V, Part A of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History Book Excerpts CONTENTS
1861 The Seizure of the Forts and Public Property in Louisiana by Edwin C. Bearss The Fiasco at Head of Passes by Edwin C. Bearss 1862 Gloom Envelops New Orleans, April 24 to May 2, 1862 by James 0. Lang The Night the War Was Lost by Charles L. Dufour Mansfield Lovell's Quest for Justice: Another Look at the Fall of New Orleans. by Daniel E. Sutherland The Battle of Baton Rouge by Edwin C. Bearss The Civil War Comes to the Lafourche by Edwin C. Bearss The Lafourche District in 1861-1862: A Problem in Local Defense by Barnes F. Lathrop The Lafourche District in 1862: Militia and Partisan Rangers by Barnes F. Lathrop The Lafourche District in 1862: Confederate Revival by Barnes F. Lathrop The Lafourche District in 1862: Invasion. by Barnes F. Lathrop 1863 "... there is no use in trying to dodge God Almighty": Farragut Runs the Port Hudson Batteries by Lawrence L. Hewitt Texans on the Teche: The Texas Brigade at the Battles ofBisland and Irish Bend, April 12-14, 1863 by Donald S. Frazier Reconnaissance in Tensas Parish, April 1863: Missouri Confederates in Louisiana by Phillip Thomas Tucker The Burning of Lake St. Joseph by Jeffrey Alan Owens The Trans-Mississippi Confederates Attempt to Relieve Vicksburg (Part I) by Edwin C. Bears The Trans-Mississippi Confederate Attempt to Relieve Vicksburg (Part II) A Texas Cavalry Raid: Reaction to Black Soldiers and Contrabands by Anne J. Bailey In Relief of Port Hudson: Richard Taylor's 1863 Lafourche Offensive by Stephen S. Michot "The Battles of Texas will be Fougbht in Louisiana": The Assault of Fort Butler, June 28, 1863 by Donald S. Frazier Surprise at Brashear City: Sherod Hunter's Sugar Cooler Cavalry by L. Boyd Finch Surrender on the Bourbeux: Honorable Defeat or Incompetency Under Fire by David C. Edmonds 1864 The Union Naval Expedition on the Red River, March 12-May 22, 1864 by Gary D. Joiner and Charles E. Vetter The Battle of Blair's Landing by Alwyn Barr A Death at Mansfield: Col. James Hamilton Beard and the Consolidated Crescent Regiment by Theodore P. Savas A Colonel Gains His Wreath: Col. Henry Gray's Louisiana Brigade at Mansfield by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. Hamilton P. Bee in the Red River Campaign of 1864 by Fredericka Meiners Chasing Banks out of Louisiana: Parsons' Texas Cavalry in the Red River Campaign by Anne J. Bailey Confederate Artillery in Western Louisiana, 1864 by Alwyn Barr 1865 Demobilization of Louisiana Confederate Forces, April-July 1865 by William W. White MISCELLANEOUS Louisiana: Six Hundred Engagements by Buford Satcher Fort Buhlow and Fort Randolph: Confederate Defenses on Red River by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr Forts Randolph and Buhlow in the Civil War by Thomas Howell General Richard Taylor as a Military Commander by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. Negro Troops in Blue and Gray: The Louisiana Native Guards, 1861-1863 by Mary F. Berry Mutiny at Camp Hubbard by Claude M. Morgan Ozeme Carriere and the St. Landry Jayhawkers, 1863-1865 by Carl A. Brasseaux The Glory Days: E. T. King Recalls the Civil War Years Edited and Annotated by Carl A. Brasseaux Bushwacking and Barn Burning: Civil War Operations and the Florida Parishes' Tradition of Violence by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. Civil War Military Operations in and Around Ponchatoula, Louisiana by William E. Perrin, Jr. Fort Beauregard, Louisiana: Confederate Strongpoint on the Ouachita by Samuel W. Mitcham The Louisiana State War Schooner Antonia: An Historical Foundling by Charles E. Pearson Against All Odds: Lt. Jonathan H. Carter, CSN, and His Ironclad by Katherine Brash Jeter Book Reviews
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