Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans

Pierson, Michael D.

ISBN 10: 0807832286 / ISBN 13: 9780807832288

Published by University of North Carolina Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807832286
• ISBN 13: 9780807832288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

New Orleans was the largest city—and one of the richest—in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1862, Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up in mutiny against their commanding officers. New Orleans fell to Union forces soon thereafter. Although the Fort Jackson mutiny marked a critical turning point in the Union's campaign to regain control of this vital Confederate financial and industrial center, it has received surprisingly little attention from historians. Michael Pierson examines newly uncovered archival sources to determine why the soldiers rebelled at such a decisive moment.The mutineers were soldiers primarily recruited from New Orleans's large German and Irish immigrant populations. Pierson shows that the new nation had done nothing to encourage poor white men to feel they had a place of honor in the southern republic. He argues that the mutineers actively sought to help

About the Author

Michael D. Pierson is associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.