A large slaveholding State, Louisiana left the Union on January 26, 1861, and after a brief period of independence, joined the Confederacy.  John Dimitry, member of a distinguished Louisiana family, has written a comprehensive history of both the political climate in the State leading to the decision to secede and the military activities within the State during the Civil War or by Louisiana regiments on battlefields all along the Confederate-Union front.

The author begins his chronicle of the war years with a description of events in Louisiana after the firing upon Fort Sumter, Louisianians at Pensacola, from Vicksburg to Baton Rouge by Labadieville, the daring exploits of the Gunboat Cotton on the Teche River, fighting on the Fordoche and Bayou Bourbeau, the Battle of Mansfield, and the Battle of Yellow Bayou.  This reprinting contains the Louisiana section of a volume originally published in 1960 as Louisiana and Arkansas Confederate Military History, edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans.

By John Dimitry, A.M.

Page Count: 322

6x9 Hardcover

First Printed 1960, Reprinted 2025

ISBN: 978-1-68593-240-4