Louisiana (Alternity)

Louisiana (LA) is a state located on the Gulf Coast Region of the southern United States. Admitted to the Union as the 18th state on April 3, 1812, Louisiana is rife with history, having changed hands multiple times before American possession of the region. Louisiana seceded from the Union in 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, but within a year of war, New Orleans fell on April 25, 1862 to Union forces as part of their Mississippi River Campaign. The Great Hurricane of 1900 devastated New Orleans in September, killing over 6,000 and reversing the city's once burgeoning prosperity, to allow the city of Manheim (settled in northern Louisiana in 1880) to become the largest city in the state by 1925.