Civil War historians have not shown a great deal of attention to the fall of New Orleans, an event that was an early indicator of gloomier things to come for the Confederacy. In A Mortal Blow to the ...

Farragut, a Union naval fleet captures New Orleans. Union forces control the city until the end of the Civil War. June 7: Homer Plessy, who is categorized as seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth ...