215. We interview Katherine Bentley Jeffrey, editor of Two Civil
Wars: The Curious Shared Journal of a Baton Rouge School Girl
and a Sailor on the USS Essex. Two Civil Wars is
both an edition of an unusual Civil War era double journal and a
narrative about the two writers who composed its contents. The
initial journal entries were written by thirteen-year-old
Celeste Repp while a student at St. Mary’s Academy, Immediately
following Celeste's prettily decorated pages a new title page
intervenes, introducing “An Abstract Journal Kept by William L.
Park, of the U.S. gunboat Essex during the American
Rebellion.” Park’s diary is a fulsome three-year account of
military engagements along the Mississippi and its tributaries,
the bombardment of southern towns, the looting of plantations,
skirmishes with Confederate guerillas, the uneasy experiment
with “contrabands” (freed slaves) serving aboard ship, and the
mundane circumstances of shipboard life. Very few diaries from
the inland navy have survived, and this is the first journal
from the ironclad Essex to be published.
- This week in Louisiana history. July 1, 1731. The Company of the Indies gave up its charter of Louisiana Colony.
- This week in New Orleans history. One of the lengthiest and
most violent transit railway strikes the nation ever
experienced began in New Orleans on July 1, 1929. Although an
agreement was reached in August, the union members did not
agree to go back to work until October.
- This week in Louisiana.
Celebration on the Cane
July 4th, 2017
10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Riverbank Stage
781 Front Street,
Natchitoches, LA 71457
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Riverbank Stage
The day begins around 10 a.m. with children's activities and live musical entertainment at 6 p.m. with spectacular firework show over Cane River Lake at 9 p.m. over the Cane River Lake in historic Downtown Natchitoches, Louisiana. Event is FREE and open to the public. Bring blankets or lawn chairs. No ice chests allowed. - Postcard from New Orleans. Bruce listens to a song played by Dennis Journey, who was singing on the corner of Royal St. and Toulouse St. in New Orleans.
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