Aaron Sheehan-Dean

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

Louisiana is really the first state reconstructed

And there is a friendly unionist government brought into power in 1864.

And we can talk more about this.

But Confederates may have hoped that they would have been able to return.

But as Breckinridge withdraws, you noted the pressure that Grant is putting, having come all the way down, even past Corinth by the middle of 1862.

He's down into northern Mississippi.

It makes this whole region very vulnerable, and they don't have the manpower to recapture it.

That being said, in the immediate aftermath, the Union is as disorganized by victory as the Confederacy is by defeat.

This happens at almost every Civil War battle.

And the Union forces actually withdraw from Baton Rouge and pull back downriver.

They're going to reinvest with a larger force later in the year and, as I say, occupy Baton Rouge permanently throughout the war.

But it does require a reorganization on both sides.

Having now fully, by let's say late 1862, solidified its control of southern Louisiana, they're pushing on Port Hudson and again trying to get north to Vicksburg, which as your listeners probably know, isn't finally successful until the middle of 1863.

But this is key to that effort that Grant's going to make to capture full control of the Mississippi River.

It does.

I mean, I think it's a discouraging effort, certainly for Breckenridge and for what turns out to be the last hope of seriously recapturing ground lost in southern Louisiana.

And Lincoln is thinking about how to capitalize on that politically.

And Grant is thinking about how to capitalize on it strategically.

Port Hudson to the north remains a real difficult spot.

So the union control actually doesn't go much farther upriver beyond Baton Rouge.

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