Don Wildman

And it all kind of meets the World War II period and helps create an entirely different kind of country.

Is that fair to say, sweeping statements like that?

Professor John E. Moser teaches at Ashland University in Ohio and is the author of many historical works, a list of which, well, just please look them up.

What's new on your horizons, Professor?

Thank you very much.

OK, thank you.

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The road to Baton Rouge lies quiet beneath a veil of fog and heavy summer air.

Soldiers, clad in gray, move stealthily through the darkness, boots sinking into the damp earth, their breath shallow and controlled.

Somewhere ahead, beyond the trees and the low fields, are the Union positions.

Months earlier, disaster had unfurled for the Confederates.

New Orleans had fallen to Union gunboats, a loss that stunned the South.

With it went trade, confidence, and strategic control of the lower Mississippi.

One by one, river towns had followed.