Gilded-Age New Orleans Was Not “The Big Easy”
On the pleasant, bird-chirping morning of 24 April 1862 alarm bells suddenly rang across the city of New Orleans, announcing the Old South was over and the New South had arrived quicker than a hummingbird’s eyeblink. Admiral David “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” Farragut and his armada had broken through the last lines of […]
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