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The U.S. state of Louisiana declared that it had seceded from the United States on January 26, 1861. It then announced that it had joined the Confederate States (C.S.); Louisiana was the sixth slave state to declare that it had seceded from the U.S. and joined the C.S.
Slaves and Freedmen in Civil War Louisiana (1976) Sledge, Christopher L. "The Union's Naval War in Louisiana, 1861–1863" (Army Command and General Staff College, 2006) online; Winters, John D. The Civil War in Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963. ISBN 0-8071-0834-0. Wooster, Ralph. "The Louisiana Secession Convention."
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.
Louisiana's secession was announced on January 26, 1861, and it became part of the Confederate States of America. The state was quickly defeated in the Civil War , a result of Union strategy to cut the Confederacy in two by controlling the Mississippi River .
Louisiana voted to secede from the Union on January 22, 1861. On January 29, the Secession Convention reconvened in New Orleans (it had earlier met in Baton Rouge) and passed an ordinance that allowed Federal employees to remain
Thomas Overton Moore (April 10, 1804 – June 25, 1876) was an attorney and politician who was the 16th Governor of Louisiana from 1860 until 1864 during the American Civil War. Anticipating that Louisiana's Ordinance of Secession would be passed in January 1861, he ordered the state militia to seize all U.S. military posts.
January 18, 1861: Georgia Secession Convention enacted an Ordinance of Secession [10] [5] January 26, 1861: Louisiana Secession Convention enacted an Ordinance of Secession [11] [5] January 29, 1861. Kansas admitted to the Union as a free state. February 1, 1861: Texas Secession Convention enacted an Ordinance of Secession [12] [5]
1805 – Spanish Town, first residential area, is established. 1806 – Beauregard Town, second neighborhood, is established. 1810 – Baton Rouge becomes part of the Republic of West Florida in September, [2] but by December the republic is annexed by the U.S. into the Territory of Orleans, which in 1812 becomes the state of Louisiana.