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Mutiny at Fort Jackson - The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans (Paperback)
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Mutiny at Fort Jackson - The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans (Paperback)
Series: Civil War America
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New Orleans was the largest city - and one of the richest - in the
Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just
sixty-five miles down the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1862,
Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up in mutiny against
their commanding officers. New Orleans fell to Union forces soon
thereafter. Although the Fort Jackson mutiny marked a critical
turning point in the Union's campaign to regain control of this
vital Confederate financial and industrial center, it has received
surprisingly little attention from historians. Michael Pierson
examines newly uncovered archival sources to determine why the
soldiers rebelled at such a decisive moment. The mutineers were
soldiers primarily recruited from New Orleans's large German and
Irish immigrant populations. Pierson shows that the new nation had
done nothing to encourage poor white men to feel they had a place
of honor in the southern republic. He argues that the mutineers
actively sought to help the Union cause. In a major reassessment of
the Union administration of New Orleans that followed, Pierson
demonstrates that Benjamin ""Beast"" Butler enjoyed the support of
many white Unionists in the city. Pierson adds an urban
working-class element to debates over the effects of white
Unionists in Confederate states. With the personal stories of
soldiers appearing throughout, Mutiny at Fort Jackson presents the
Civil War from a new perspective, revealing the complexities of New
Orleans society and the Confederate experience.
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