The weapon, a .38-caliber long rifle was used by William Ross during the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, the assistant to the curator of the Confederate Museum Joseph Ricci said during a ...

The battle of New Orleans was celebrated nationally for decades. That changed after the Civil War. So did the belief in its significance. It began to be referred to as unnecessary, after the fact ...

I know. If an event from American Catholic history is known as “the War of the Pews” it probably won’t be edifying. But that is a misperception. There is a happy ending to this “war.” ...

The adage holds that history is written by the victors, but, as the masked, bulletproof-vested municipal workers who assembled in New Orleans at ... who lost the Civil War. The workers were ...

An obelisk dedicated to the Battle ... city. New Orleans, which was the largest city in the Confederacy, fell to Union forces in 1862 and was under federal occupation beyond the Civil War ...