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On the Eve of War: New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is often called America’s most unique city. If not as true today, it certainly was in 1861. One major reason other major city in the country was acquired by America with a non-Anglo Catholic culture fully in place. … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary
Tagged 160th Anniversary, New Orleans, on-the-eve-of-war, secession
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The Persistence of the Mardi Gras Spirit in Civil War New Orleans
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Neil P. Chatelain… Nothing embodies New Orleans more than Mardi Gras. Crowds throng parades, balls, and costumed parties, marking final celebrations before the Catholic season of Lent. Organizations host parades, customizing throws of … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Holidays
Tagged Comus, Mardi Gras, Mystick Krewe, New Orleans
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“Were you ever at Camp Moore?” – Louisiana’s Largest Training Camp – Part II
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Sheritta Bitikofer… Part II of II…see Part I here Though it wasn’t the only training camp in southeast Louisiana (Chalmette and Benjamin/Jerusalem, among others) Camp Moore continued to be a major hub for … Continue reading
“Were you ever at Camp Moore?” – Louisiana’s Largest Training Camp – Part I
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Sheritta Bitikofer… Part I of II…see Part II here Nestled deep in the woods of St. Helena Parish, along the New Orleans & Jackson Railroad, seventy-five miles north of the famous Crescent City, … Continue reading
The 1858 New Orleans Mayoral Election
This article was co-written with Michael Kraemer, a PhD student at The Ohio State University In 1803, the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from Napoléon Bonaparte. It contained many independent Native American nations, as well as New Orleans, which … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Politics
Tagged "Know Nothing", election, New Orleans, P.G.T. Beauregard, vigilance committee
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Echoes of the Reconstruction Era: October 2020
ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. The White League was one of the largest and most dangerous of the Reconstruction Era militias. It embraced the worldview of the Ku Klux Klan, without the funny robes … Continue reading
A Rope of Sand: Some thoughts on America after Confederate Independence
ECW welcomes guest author Jim Morgan “A Southern Republic will be worse than a rope of sand with South Carolina at its head – arrogant, self-willed and dictatorial as she is.” –Former North Carolina Attorney General, Bartholomew F. Moore, December, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged Cuba, Gettysburg, Jefferson Davis, Joseph Brown, MacKinlay Kantor, New Orleans, Richmond, Russia, South Carolina, Texas
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The author speaks out on his work: Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood
Every Civil War historian hopes that her/his work will add a few nuggets to the literature. Here’s a candidate from my recent book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer University Press, 2019). In Stephen M. … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Newspapers, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Advance and Retreat, Atlanta Campaign, Howard-Tilton Library, John Bell Hood, Joseph E. Johnston, Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood, New Orleans, New Orleans Times, Stephen Hood, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood, Tulane UNiversity
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Yes, I Picked Benjamin Butler for My Fantasy Draft
ECW welcomes guest author Bryan Cheeseboro. Recently, I enjoyed “The Civil War Fantasy Draft” presented by The American Battlefield Trust on their Facebook page as part of their new Zoom Goes the History video series. As we are under social … Continue reading
Yellow Fever and Reconciliation
Among the historical memories that still haunt New Orleans are those of the Yellow Fever outbreaks of the 1800s. As a descendant of Irishmen, who suffered disproportionately from the disease, I heard my grandmother speak of the last few outbreaks … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Medical, Reconstruction
Tagged Beauregard, illness, John Bell Hood, New Orleans, Reconstruction, yellow fever
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