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Josiah Hedges, also known as Edge, is a half-Mexican hired gunslinger who sets out for vengeance after his younger brother is killed by a group of his former comrades in the Union Army. The group is led by Edge's nemesis, Merritt Harknett, a psychotic sadist who delights in inflicting pain on others and who also seeks something in Edge's ...
In the 1850 census, New Orleans ranked as the 6th largest city in the United States, with a population reported as 168,675. [2] It was the only city in the South with over 100,000 people. By 1840 New Orleans had the largest slave market in the nation, which contributed greatly to its wealth.
New Orleans, Louisiana (before 1863), Athens, Georgia (1863-1866) Various rifles, bayonets 3,800-4,000 rifles, of them 1,000 .58 caliber percussion muzzle-loading carbines Davis & Bozeman Elmore, Alabama.58 caliber percussion muzzle-loading carbines 90 Dickson, Nelson & Co. Adairsville, Georgia, Macon, Georgia, Dawson, Georgia: Rifles and carbines
After New Orleans fell to Admiral David Farragut in April 1862, Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler headquartered his 12,000-man Army of the Gulf in New Orleans. On September 27, 1862, Butler organized the Union Army's 1st Louisiana Native Guard regiment, some of whose members had served in the previous Confederate Native Guard regiment.
Camp Parapet was a Civil War fortification at Shrewsbury, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, a bit more than a mile upriver from the current city limits of New Orleans. History [ edit ]
The fort was used in the final sequence of the 1974 film Nightmare Honeymoon. The fort was used in the 2013 film G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and represented Fort Sumter of Charleston, South Carolina, where the opening shots of the Civil War were fired. The fort was used in a scene of the 2016 NCIS: New Orleans episode "Second Chances" (season 2 ...
The eponymous character, Yancy Derringer, is an adventurer and gambler.He is a former Confederate Army Captain who has returned to New Orleans, Louisiana, [1] in 1868, three years after the end of the American Civil War, during the southern Reconstruction Era.
A memorial to the 1811 German Coast uprising of slaves, located at the Whitney. Quentin Tarantino made a film Django Unchained (2012) about a slave uprising. A scene was filmed in the rebuilt blacksmith's shop at Whitney Plantation. [6] The Atlantic magazine made a short documentary video about the museum in 2015, Why America Needs a Slavery ...