New Orleans was the largest city--and one of the richest--in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Missis

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies we

"Long before the Confederacy was crushed militarily, it was defeated economically," writes Charles L. Dufour. He contends that with the fall of the critical cit

J. Matthew Ward’s Garden of Ruins serves as an insightful social and military history of Civil War–era Louisiana. Partially occupied by Union forces startin

Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the mil