Aaron Sheehan-Dean

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American History Hit · Battle of Baton Rouge: Civil War on the Mississippi · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

Whether they would have been able to move all the way south and accomplish the full strategic goal, we don't know.

Well, there's a couple of things strategically I want to point out as well in terms of the casualties.

You had mentioned Thomas Williams on the Union side.

There is a signally important casualty on the Confederate side, which is Alexander Todd.

who is part of the Orphan Brigade under the command of John Breckinridge out of Kentucky.

And this is Mary Todd Lincoln's brother.

Her youngest and closest brother is killed in this battle.

That's one of the pieces of news that sort of draws public attention in both the North and the South to this relatively small engagement.

Listeners may remember an episode that you and I did talking about the Brothers' War and the kind of divisions within the

the United States, particularly along the border states.

And this is the clearest illustration of that is that Abraham Lincoln's wife's brother is fighting on behalf of the Confederacy in Baton Rouge and killed in action.

His body is then brought back to Kentucky.

Most of the Confederates are buried in Magnolia Cemetery, the scene of the fighting, or many of them are buried there in Magnolia Cemetery.

Union soldiers are buried across the street in what will later become a national cemetery, a very small one that we have here in Baton Rouge, which houses about half Civil War dead people.

They never do.

And that's part of what I want to reinforce here, which is the significance of this is that the Confederates will never again mount a serious effort to recapture southern Louisiana.

So this sort of richest part of the South remains for the remainder of the war.

in permanent union occupation.

Both Baton Rouge and New Orleans are under union occupation for the next three years.

And even more importantly, that is what allows Lincoln to begin pursuing reconstruction in Louisiana.

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