Join Garden District Book Shop for an evening with author Mark F. Bielski. About this event The Garden District Book Shop is thrilled to host local author and historian Mark F. Bielski to celebrate the release of, “A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy: The Rise and Fall of New Orleans, 1862”, on June 24 at The Rink (2727 Prytania Street.) Bielski is an historian, author, the Director at Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours and host of the History with Mark Bielski podcast. Traditional history has not devoted a great deal of attention to the fall of New Orleans, a Civil War event that was an early harbinger of the dark days to come for the Confederacy. “A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy” begins in the spring of 1862, when a furious naval battle began downriver from the city at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the joyous celebrations of Mardi Gras turned into the Easter season of dread as the sound of the distant bombardment reached New Orleans, portending an ominous outcome. Throughout the book, Bielski covers the leaders and men who fought for control of New Orleans, the largest city in the South, the key to the Mississippi, and the commercial…
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