Confederate Louisiana - 64 Parishes

As a member of the Confederate States of America, Louisiana provided soldiers who fought outside the state. by John M. Sacher On March 21, 1861, two months after Louisiana had seceded from the United States, the state officially joined the Confederacy. The state’s membership in this new nation wascharacterized by a combination of cooperation and friction.Many Louisianans complained that while the state had provided much for the Confederacy, especially soldiers, theConfederacy had offered little in return. In December 1862, Governor Thomas Overton Moore bluntly asked President Jefferson Davis, “What has been done for Louisiana?” In the governor’s view, the simple answer was “nothing,” and consequently Louisiana would have been better off if it had maintained an “independent sovereignty.” Nevertheless, despite such statements, Governor Moore and the majority of other Louisianans remained loyal to the Confederacy from its inception to its defeat.In the first year of the conflict, Louisian...