November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., has taken up a banner of history that has fallen at least on the field of battle.
She and fellow Democratic Sen. Jim Webb, of Virginia, have introduced the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Act of 2009 “to establish a commission to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War,” a release [...]
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October 29, 2009 | Posted by javal
Stanley Hurlee has seen his share of odd sales through the years at his Metairie scrap yard.
Yet last week, something didn’t seem right when a man pulled up, eager to sell a hefty haul of brass and bronze.
The mountain of metal inside the man’s vehicle was 8 inches in diameter, a couple of feet long, [...]
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October 13, 2009 | Posted by javal
A memorial service to honor American Civil War veterans will be held at 10 a.m. Oct. 31 in the Carron Cemetery southeast of Eunice, and the public is invited to participate.
The event, which will include an honor guard provided by units of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in historic costume, is being organized by novelist [...]
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October 13, 2009 | Posted by javal
LSU graduate archaeology student Brian Hess once studied American Indians of the western United States, but he’s now trying his hand at Civil War archaeology on part of a major Louisiana battlefield.
Hess, from Seattle, is studying Union Siege Battery 8 — or what’s left of it — at the Port Hudson State Historic Site north [...]
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October 13, 2009 | Posted by javal
A Minnesota couple has returned a Confederate soldier’s canteen to caretakers of the Civil War battlefield where it was found more than 146 years ago.
“I figured it belonged here,” said Torney Marshall, who inherited the wooden canteen but decided to donate it to the museum at Port Hudson State Historic Site.
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September 17, 2009 | Posted by javal
Ouachita City is a diminutive community on the Union Parish border, about four miles northeast of Sterlington and some 20 miles southwest of Bastrop.
You can drive past the village on La. 2 and not even realize it is there. There was a time, however, when Ouachita City bustled with the sights of sounds of a [...]
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July 31, 2009 | Posted by Laurie
Artist William Dunlap’s exhibit unites old foes for art
WHITE LINEN IN BLUE AND GRAY
Artist William Dunlap says he’s always been under the spell of the Civil War. When he was growing up in Webster County, Miss., he and his brother found a rusty Navy Colt pistol left over from “that old war.” He and his [...]
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June 15, 2009 | Posted by javal
Fort Pike, shut down by hurricane damage for most of the past four years, reopened Friday.
The fort’s construction began in 1819 in the eastern outskirts of New Orleans as the first of a system of seacoast forts started by President James Monroe.
For the past two months, it’s been the set for “Jonah Hex,” a movie [...]
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May 26, 2009 | Posted by javal
With every shot, with every tale, history is re-lived at one of Lousiana’s historic sites. Each year, thousands of people visit old cabins and battlegrounds like the one at Manfield’s State Historic Site.
“We have travelers coming up I-49 to stop and see our sign there. Of course they want to stop and that’s everyday,” Jason [...]
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May 7, 2009 | Posted by javal
The 52nd Massachusetts volunteer regiment whose Civil War movements were reported by Chaplain John Moors barely entered Terrebonne Parish, and then only to board trains which took them west to the Bayou Boeuf and Atchafalaya River area.
Moors and his fellow Union soldiers were stationed at Bayou Bouef in April 1863, and from letters home to [...]
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