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22 hours ago · Taylor's plans called for a 2- prong invasion of the Lafourche district. His primary mission was to seize control of Brashear City (present day Morgan City), and the capture of the large military stores within the village. With that accomplished, Taylor could then threaten New Orleans.
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22 hours ago · In an exhibition held in New York just one month after the war, their photos of dead soldiers on the battlefield in the aftermath of the 1862 Battle of Antietam were shown and shocked the public ...
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3 days ago · August 5, 1862 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Returning south after a failed naval assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi in late July, Rear Adm. David G. Farragut's Mississippi River flotilla landed 3,200 Union troops in Baton Rouge to serve as the city's garrison.
1 day ago · The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862. The fighting took place in southwestern Tennessee, which was part of the war's Western Theater.
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1 day ago · The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union.
- April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865, (4 years, 1 month and 2 weeks)
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3 days ago · New Orleans, city, southeastern Louisiana, U.S. Unquestionably one of the most distinctive cities of the New World, New Orleans was established at great cost in an environment of conflict. Its strategic position, commanding the mouth of the great Mississippi - Missouri river system, which drains the rich interior of North America , made it a ...
3 days ago · The United States was concerned that Lafitte and his men would aid the British in taking the vital port of New Orleans, so a naval force consisting of the USS Carolina and six more gunboats...