You sir, had already spoken of my interests in hurricanes in Louisiana history. Now i passionately listen to your awesome, again energetic and well-narrarated other love: The Teche Campaign. My work at 60 years old seldom allows me to peruse these subjects but WOW. My great great grandfather was commanding a battery section of the 5th PELICAN battery that day at Bisland. Colonel Leopold Armant also of St James parish was his best friend.
Great video, my fellow Louisianan! The War in Louisiana is seriously overlooked and we owe a debt of gratitude to Donald Frazer for his series on the subject.
Thank you for making this video. Ive recently discovered that my Great-Great Grandpa served in the 18th LA. Inf. under Mouton and that he was taken prisoner during the Battle of Bayou Teche.
I was born in Michigan. I work this areas of Louisiana for over 25 years, it's a great place. The confederate statues should stand. As a part of OUR history, to think about these real hard times. Maybe not on public building, but set-up in rest area. Where working people of America can RESPECTIVELY see them. These battles both sides sacrificed. American people must stand together to take better GODLY steps. If the statues were move, up grade the move to a better location, like the first rest area as you come in to Louisiana from Texas. Were hundreds of American can see them yearly.
I agree with you on the move of the statues. The statue that once stood in front of the Shreveport courthouse now stands on the Pleasant Hill battlefield at Pleasant Hill Louisiana.
I give u my respect as a Gentleman- But strongly stated-The statues should be REMOVED - Working people of non-Magas hate ideology doctrines do not want to see them. The south lost- please get over it. This was an insurrection of giant actions against the USA government. Rich white men sent poor whites to war to further the inhumane system of slavery. GODLY?????? Sacrifices on both sides- Really? sO CALLED SONS OF THE SOUTH DIES TO HOLD ON TO RACISM - meet the new south- same as the old south. Rest AREA- A captive audience- HAHA- UPGRADE TO A BETTER LOCATION- WHO PAYS FOR THAT? The SOUTH SHOULD NOT SET ASIDE MONEY TO GLORIFY A TERROIST WAR. I am from this area- born and raised- poor health care, poor education, poor race relations, bad roads etc. Spend money on these important necessities.
THANK YOU for this!!! I had planned a trip to the area to see the battlefield for myself just as the Covid epidemic shut things down in April of 2020! I never made it to Fort Bisland (or Shreveport, or Mansfield, or Pleasant Hill, or Cane River ...). Watching that shot of you trudging down between the cane fields and along the railroad and the sugar cane plants was exactly what I was planning to do!!!
Great video! Please include brigade commanders on your maps if you could. It would really help us understand who was where. Would love to see your account of Port Hudson!
I could do a whole other video on the literature around the campaign because... there's not a lot around there, and you also fall into the trap of biased sources--especially Lost Cause types when trying to untangle the Confederate side. Morris Raphael, of The Daily Iberian weekly column fame, wrote several books on the Civil War in Acadiana, and his best one was his first one in 1975 called The Battle in the Bayou Country. He later wrote A Gunboat Named Diana that covers most of the same ground as well. He's a good old Southern gentleman and wrote them with a bit of literary flair and some bias (He ends Battle in the Bayou Country with Taylor's counteroffensive in June 1863 because he " had to show a little Southern bias and wanted to end the book on a high note") but it's a good handle on the basics. A more-scholarly source is Donald Frazier's Thunder Across the Swamp that covers the Bayou Teche campaign. It's more recent (About a decade ago) and is pretty impeccably researched from what I can see, but I quibble a little bit with some of his evaluations of the campaign--especially how he seems to think this was some masterstroke by Banks who easily brushed aside Taylor. I don't think blowing two chances to destroy Taylor's command in 48 hours and failing to properly chase him down afterward makes Banks look all that competent--especially a year later when they met in Mansfield and Taylor manhandled him pretty easily. There's also the period-era sources you can find on Internet Archive, especially the unit histories that give some individual insight into things, but can be pretty biased as well.
What do you know of Germans being on gunboats in the area? I've been told my G3 grandpa was a german mercenary on a gunboat. He settled in the area near Wax Bayou.
What was your GF's name? There were many German born residents of Louisiana from Terrebonne & Lafourche Parishes that served in Taylor's Army. Some of these may have been assigned duty aboard the Gunboat Diana which is covered in Part 2 of this series.
Here's the deal, even before the Civil War started. The industrial age was less than 50 years away. This would make slavery obsolete. Anyone with a brain in 1860 could see it coming. Now, if I was president of America, I would offer "sweethearts deals" to southern plantation owners, who wanted to get on board. The fact is England brought over slavery not America. I would quietly set-up meeting with plantation owners to lease purchase their slaves. If the plantation owner agree to the terms of the document.
Terms of the document. America government would purchase all slaves on said property. With silver certificates to mature in 50, 75, 100 years. Anyone one born on the property, after said date is automatically a free person of independences. Anyone wishing to stay on property to work will receive a monthly, base government income. Children will received stander education and stander health care supervision. All people on property must have 2 day of the week mandatory rest. Advance trade school will be set-up for anyone "able" to grasping the skill. Skills in ship building, wagon building and black smith, bottle making.
Phase 2, as President I would quietly let the plantation owners know. That I would be building state of the art cargo ships to drop off cotton in Europe faster and at lower shipping cost. They can be apart of the deal if they get on board with the offer and I can give them bigger offers ones they are on board. Ones on board with former slave plantation owners. I put into law the banning of all exports of America cotton or any other products pick by unfree hands. I would focus on building Navy battle ships big and small to secure our borders on both sides.
The biggest problem with the civil war, was both side believe that it would be over in least than a few weeks or months. During slavery if you were a poor white man to bad for you. Poor whites did not matter if they went hungry.
You sir, had already spoken of my interests in hurricanes in Louisiana history. Now i passionately listen to your awesome, again energetic and well-narrarated other love: The Teche Campaign. My work at 60 years old seldom allows me to peruse these subjects but WOW. My great great grandfather was commanding a battery section of the 5th PELICAN battery that day at Bisland. Colonel Leopold Armant also of St James parish was his best friend.
Great video, my fellow Louisianan! The War in Louisiana is seriously overlooked and we owe a debt of gratitude to Donald Frazer for his series on the subject.
BORN AND RAISED IN WEEKS ISLAND- NEVER KNEW THIS- THANKS!
Thank you for making this video. Ive recently discovered that my Great-Great Grandpa served in the 18th LA. Inf. under Mouton and that he was taken prisoner during the Battle of Bayou Teche.
More of this kind of content please :)
I really enjoyed this video, I live in New Iberia and it’s nice to hear about some local history of the civil war. Looking forward to part 2 !
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I was born in Michigan. I work this areas of Louisiana for over 25 years, it's a great place. The confederate statues should stand. As a part of OUR history, to think about these real hard times. Maybe not on public building, but set-up in rest area. Where working people of America can RESPECTIVELY see them. These battles both sides sacrificed. American people must stand together to take better GODLY steps. If the statues were move, up grade the move to a better location, like the first rest area as you come in to Louisiana from Texas. Were hundreds of American can see them yearly.
I would make sure that the statues are high enough where you can see them, but can't touch. Around the wall some history about the statue is given.
I agree with you on the move of the statues. The statue that once stood in front of the Shreveport courthouse now stands on the Pleasant Hill battlefield at Pleasant Hill Louisiana.
I give u my respect as a Gentleman- But strongly stated-The statues should be REMOVED - Working people of non-Magas hate ideology doctrines do not want to see them. The south lost- please get over it. This was an insurrection of giant actions against the USA government. Rich white men sent poor whites to war to further the inhumane system of slavery. GODLY?????? Sacrifices on both sides- Really? sO CALLED SONS OF THE SOUTH DIES TO HOLD ON TO RACISM - meet the new south- same as the old south.
Rest AREA- A captive audience- HAHA- UPGRADE TO A BETTER LOCATION- WHO PAYS FOR THAT? The SOUTH SHOULD NOT SET ASIDE MONEY TO GLORIFY A TERROIST WAR.
I am from this area- born and raised- poor health care, poor education, poor race relations, bad roads etc. Spend money on these important necessities.
Please do one of these on Port Hudson :)
THANK YOU for this!!! I had planned a trip to the area to see the battlefield for myself just as the Covid epidemic shut things down in April of 2020! I never made it to Fort Bisland (or Shreveport, or Mansfield, or Pleasant Hill, or Cane River ...). Watching that shot of you trudging down between the cane fields and along the railroad and the sugar cane plants was exactly what I was planning to do!!!
Great video! Please include brigade commanders on your maps if you could. It would really help us understand who was where. Would love to see your account of Port Hudson!
Can you mark the actual location of the battle, camps, etc.? I live nearby and don't know if I'm searching the right area.
❤excellent thank you
After this video was made, the statue of Gen. Mouton was in fact taken down. It now resides at Camp Moore in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.
🎶Taylor and Smith, with ragged ranks,
Burned up the cotton, and whupped 'ol Banks,
And we'll all drink stone-blind,
Johnny fill up the bowl🎶
Last lines- Everyone take a smart pause- Poor Johnny died for a stupid racist cause. Amen.
If I wanted to learn more what books would you recommend?
I could do a whole other video on the literature around the campaign because... there's not a lot around there, and you also fall into the trap of biased sources--especially Lost Cause types when trying to untangle the Confederate side.
Morris Raphael, of The Daily Iberian weekly column fame, wrote several books on the Civil War in Acadiana, and his best one was his first one in 1975 called The Battle in the Bayou Country. He later wrote A Gunboat Named Diana that covers most of the same ground as well. He's a good old Southern gentleman and wrote them with a bit of literary flair and some bias (He ends Battle in the Bayou Country with Taylor's counteroffensive in June 1863 because he " had to show a little Southern bias and wanted to end the book on a high note") but it's a good handle on the basics.
A more-scholarly source is Donald Frazier's Thunder Across the Swamp that covers the Bayou Teche campaign. It's more recent (About a decade ago) and is pretty impeccably researched from what I can see, but I quibble a little bit with some of his evaluations of the campaign--especially how he seems to think this was some masterstroke by Banks who easily brushed aside Taylor. I don't think blowing two chances to destroy Taylor's command in 48 hours and failing to properly chase him down afterward makes Banks look all that competent--especially a year later when they met in Mansfield and Taylor manhandled him pretty easily.
There's also the period-era sources you can find on Internet Archive, especially the unit histories that give some individual insight into things, but can be pretty biased as well.
Thank you very much for the detailed information on the sources.
@@lorencklein Really? I am expecting someone to start singing DIXIE SOON- get OVER IT- No matter how many battles u won- U LOST THE CIVIL WAR- LOL
wooooooooo history!
What do you know of Germans being on gunboats in the area? I've been told my G3 grandpa was a german mercenary on a gunboat. He settled in the area near Wax Bayou.
What was your GF's name? There were many German born residents of Louisiana from Terrebonne & Lafourche Parishes that served in Taylor's Army. Some of these may have been assigned duty aboard the Gunboat Diana which is covered in Part 2 of this series.
God has spoken
How did Fort Bisland get its name?
It was named after the plantation where it was located--the Bisland Plantation.
The statues not controversial to me proud of it
pROUD OF TERRORISTS?- U LOST- IT IS OVER - Do u want the south to secede again????
Let’s go
They should pressure wash the building
That was the union of Crowns killing king james family to keep the viking hoard of gold
Here's the deal, even before the Civil War started. The industrial age was less than 50 years away. This would make slavery obsolete. Anyone with a brain in 1860 could see it coming. Now, if I was president of America, I would offer "sweethearts deals" to southern plantation owners, who wanted to get on board. The fact is England brought over slavery not America. I would quietly set-up meeting with plantation owners to lease purchase their slaves. If the plantation owner agree to the terms of the document.
Terms of the document. America government would purchase all slaves on said property. With silver certificates to mature in 50, 75, 100 years. Anyone one born on the property, after said date is automatically a free person of independences. Anyone wishing to stay on property to work will receive a monthly, base government income. Children will received stander education and stander health care supervision. All people on property must have 2 day of the week mandatory rest. Advance trade school will be set-up for anyone "able" to grasping the skill. Skills in ship building, wagon building and black smith, bottle making.
Phase 2, as President I would quietly let the plantation owners know. That I would be building state of the art cargo ships to drop off cotton in Europe faster and at lower shipping cost.
They can be apart of the deal if they get on board with the offer and I can give them bigger offers ones they are on board. Ones on board with former slave plantation owners. I put into law the banning of all exports of America cotton or any other products pick by unfree hands. I would focus on building Navy battle ships big and small to secure our borders on both sides.
The biggest problem with the civil war, was both side believe that it would be over in least than a few weeks or months. During slavery if you were a poor white man to bad for you.
Poor whites did not matter if they went hungry.
Poor whites were used- big time!!!!
Hey guys, Mr. Klein here, today I’m going to tear down this confederate statue
I will help u!!!
Corruption