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The history of New Orleans differs significantly with the histories of other cities that were included in the Confederate States of America.Because it was founded by the French and controlled by Spain for a time, New Orleans had a population who were mostly Catholic and had created a more cosmopolitan culture than in some of the Protestant-dominated states of the British colonies.
The battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip (April 18–28, 1862) was the decisive battle for possession of New Orleans in the American Civil War. The two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River south of the city were attacked by a Union Navy fleet. As long as the forts could keep the Federal forces from moving on the city, it was safe, but ...
Colonel Szymanski made a statement on April 18, 1863 at the military court of inquiry assembled in Jackson, Mississippi, to investigate the fall of New Orleans, about the surrender of his regiment; "When the forts were passed, just about break of day, the fleet came upon my small camp and opened fire. After losing some 30 men killed and wounded ...
A detachment was captured at the Siege of Port Hudson, but the bulk of the battalion served at Jackson in 1863, and New Hope Church, Atlanta, Ezra Church, and Nashville in 1864. The survivors were consolidated with the remnants of the 4th and 13th Louisiana Infantry Regiments , and the 14th Louisiana Battalion in February 1864.
Companies B and E never returned to the regiment and both were replaced by new companies. The new Company E did not join the regiment until 23 July 1862. The unit left Louisiana to go to Corinth, Mississippi, on 11 March. The regiment fought at the Battle of Shiloh on 6–7 April 1862. [3]
The Native Guards were volunteers, and as such supplied their own arms and uniforms. These were displayed in a grand review of troops in New Orleans on November 23, 1861, and again on January 8, 1862. [5] They offered their services to escort Union prisoners (captured at the First Battle of Bull Run) through New Orleans. Confederate General ...
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF. New Orleans, May 15, 1862. As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall by word, gesture, or movement insult or show contempt for any ...
Assault of the Second Louisiana (colored regiment) on the Rebel Works at Port Hudson, May 27, 1863. The Regiment was organized in New Orleans, Louisiana, in October 1862, and assigned to the defenses of New Orleans to December 1862.