Before the war broke out between the North and South, 11 states seceded from the United States of America in 1861.
This intimate bus tour around New Orleans visits sites that relate to the history of slavery, free people of color, and the Civil War in New Orleans.
When the Civil War started, no other city in the American South had a larger Irish population than New Orleans. This tour will focus on the Irish of New Orleans.
Civil War Tours of New Orleans offers an in-depth tour of Bayou Lafourche while visiting the battlefields and plantations that were “touched by war.”