Baton Rouge

“The military expedition from New Orleans, under command of Lieut.Col. Walton, having formed a junction at Baton Rouge with volunteer companies from Gross Tete and the parishes of East and West Baton Rouge, took unopposed possession of the Federal Arsenal in Baton Rouge, Major Haskin, the Federal commandant, surrendering it to”

Diary of the War for Separation, a Daily Chronicle of the Principal Events and History of the Present Revolution, to Which is Added Notes and Descriptions of All the Great Battles, Including Walker's Narrative of the Battle of Shiloh

“Baton Rouge at the appointed time, assaulted, and was repulsed after a severe action; but the Arkansas, disabled by an accident to her machinery, was delayed, and, learning of Breckenridge's failure, her commander ran her ashore on the west bank of the river a few miles above Baton Rouge, and destroyed her.”

Generals, Confederate States of America, Biography, Soldiers, Louisiana, Southern States, Army, Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 9th., History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, United States, Campaigns, Military Life, Reconstruction.

“Mr. Julian had removed the phone from Mrs. LaSalle’s bedroom long ago, after a judge in Opelousas and a U.S. attorney in Baton Rouge complained she was calling them in the middle of the night, claiming that Huey Long had been murdered by agents of Franklin Roosevelt.”

Simon & Schuster: Jolie Blon’s Bounce

“During the winter and spring of 1866 we continued covertly supplying arms and ammunition to the Liberals -- sending as many as 30,000 muskets from Baton Rouge Arsenal alone -- and by mid-summer Juarez, having organized a pretty good sized army, was in possession of the whole line of the Rio Grande, and, in fact, of nearly the whole of Mexico down to San Louis Potosi.”

Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

“If you had gone to any street corner in Chicago or Baton Rouge or Selma or Trenton or Arcola, Mississippi -- you would have found the same young men and women without hope, without prospects, and without a sense of destiny other than life on the edge -- the edge of the law, the edge of the economy, the edge of family structures and communities.”

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the National Conference of Black Mayors

““I picked the kid up at the Baton Rouge airport and got her all settled at Doucet-Bainbridge,” Purcell said.”

Simon & Schuster: Etched in Bone