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Louisiana in the American Civil War : ウィキペディア英語版 | Louisiana in the American Civil War
Antebellum Louisiana was a slave state, where enslaved Africans and African Americans had comprised the majority of the population during the eighteenth century French and Spanish colonial period. By the time the United States acquired the territory (1803) and Louisiana became a state (1812), the institution of slavery was entrenched. By 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. The state also had one of the largest free black populations in the United States.〔Some of which, owned slaves themselves. Nicolas Augustin Metoyer of Louisiana owned 13 slaves in 1830. He and his 12 family members collectively owned 215 slaves.〕 Much of the white population, particularly in the cities, supported States' rights and slavery, while pockets of support for the Federal government existed in the more rural areas. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861. New Orleans, Louisiana, the largest city in the entire South, was strategically important as a port city due to its southernmost location on the Mississippi River and its access to the Gulf of Mexico. The United States War Department early on planned for its capture. The city was taken by Union forces on April 25, 1862. Because a large part of the population had Union sympathies (or compatible commercial interests), the U.S. government took the unusual step of designating the areas of Louisiana then under Federal control as a state within the Union, with its own elected representatives to the U.S. Congress. For the latter part of the war, both the Union and the Confederacy recognized their own distinct Louisiana governors.
==Politics and strategy in Louisiana==
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