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The early history of New Orleans was one of uninterrupted growth. 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.
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 Capture of New Orleans 1862. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1945-8. Hollandsworth Jr, James G. The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War (LSU Press, 1995) Johnson, Ludwell H. Red River Campaign, Politics & Cotton in the Civil War Kent State University Press (1993). ISBN 0-87338-486-5.
Early in the American Civil War New Orleans was captured by the Union without a battle in the city itself, and hence was spared the destruction suffered by many other cities of the American South. It retains a historical flavor with a wealth of 19th century structures far beyond the early colonial city boundaries of the French Quarter .
Fort Jackson is a historic masonry fort located 40 miles (64 km) up river from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.It was constructed as a coastal defense of New Orleans, between 1822 and 1832, and it was a battle site during the American Civil War. [2]
The New Orleans massacre was a continuation of a longer shooting war over slavery (beginning with Bleeding Kansas in 1859), of which the 1861–1865 hostilities were merely the largest part. [10] More than half of the whites were Confederate veterans and nearly half of the Black Americans were veterans of the Union army.
Expedition to, and Capture of, New Orleans (American Civil War) (2 P) Pages in category "New Orleans in the American Civil War" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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.