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, the state is ripe 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 to Union forces on April 25, 1862, as part of the Union's Mississippi River Campaign. The Great New Orleans Hurricane devastated the city in September 1900, killing over 8,000 and slowing development to a crawl, forcing many of the survivors north to the smaller city of Manheim (established in Claiborne Parish in 1880), which would become the largest city in the state by 1925.