The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.
It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...
Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South ... farmer's well on a federal burial detail in 1862 1,733 — Approximate number of American ...