Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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The Confederate government, the state government, evacuates and moves to the west.
But as I say, Baton Rouge was sort of the next largest space in this area.
Capturing the capital was a publicity coup for the North.
And so it is essential to kind of anchor a control of this larger southern Louisiana region, enormously wealthy from sugar and cotton planters.
who had been trading.
And the union immediately begins thinking about making deals with these men to return to the union, take an oath of loyalty.
Many of them are old school businessmen, kind of wig types who were not keen for secession in the first place.
And many do sign loyalty oaths.
So there are multiple strategies.
The union is using, I would say, both the carrot and the stick here to try to recruit people back to the union.
That's always Lincoln's goal here, even before he's necessarily thinking about a complete military victory, if he can sort of bring people back.
And these wealthy planters, some of them do return up and down the river on both sides, really.
It's about 60 miles.
So the river at this point, actually, New Orleans is more east than south of us, although we all talk about it as downriver.
We're talking about 60 miles or so between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Yeah, it's very smooth sailing.
As I say, the two forts were the key obstacle.
And north of here, the river at this point, the river is very wide and very easy to navigate.
The Union is bringing very big ships, you know, triple-masted naval ships upriver here with reasonably deep hulls.
The river can accommodate that even much farther north.
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