The Battle of Port Hudson in Louisiana involved about 8,000 Black ... vital to the Union Army’s operation.” After the Civil War ended in 1865, many Black soldiers than enlisted in the ...

Muller, who has been researching Civil War history in the region ... to our understanding of the War in Louisiana, Muller said this skirmish was no Battle of Gettysburg or Shiloh, but to the ...

No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of New Orleans. When Union forces sailed up the Mississippi River in 1862 — just over a year after Louisiana seceded — the city ...

Image of John Achilles Harris of Athens, Louisiana, a Civil War soldier who ... the great Greek hero of Achilles in battle with Hector during the Trojan War — this time in a farmer’s field ...