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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
int and custom-house in New Orleans seized by Confederates......Jan. 31, 1861 Convention to join Southern Confederacy; State flag adopted, a red ground, crossed by bars of blue and white and bearing a single star of pale yellow......Feb. 4, 1861 Louisiana ratifies the Confederate constitution......March 22, 1861 Louisiana raises 3,000 Confederate troops, and at call of Governor Moore 3,000 additional......April 24, 1861 First gun cast for Confederate navy at Phoenix Iron Works at Gretna, near New Orleans......May 4, 1861 Port of New Orleans blockaded by United States sloop-of-war Brooklyn; Ship Island occupied by Union troops......1861 Banks of New Orleans suspend specie payments......Sept. 18, 1861 Confederate martial law instituted in New Orleans......Oct. 11, 1861 Federal steamship Richmond, under John Pope, while coaling near New Orleans, is struck by a Confederate ram......Oct. 12, 1861 State casts its electoral vote for Jefferson Davis as president of t