| Encyclopedia: Louisiana (8853 words) |
 | Orleans Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States formed out of the first subdivision of the Louisiana Purchase. |
| New Orleans was captured by Federal troops on April 25, 1862. |
| As significant portions of the population had Union sympathies, the Federal government took the unusual step of recognizing the areas of Louisiana under Federal control as a state within the Union with elected representatives who were sent to the congress in Washington, D.C. throughout the rest of the war. |
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