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New Exhibits at Center
This spring the Young-Sanders Center will open an exhibit on the
plantation of Olympus Young. Mr. Young was one of St. Mary's largest
antebellum planters but, by 1862, much of his land had been confiscated by the
Federal government and his lawns and fields became the site of the Union fort called
Brashear. From Fort Brashear the Yankees battled the Confederates and gained control
of Bayou Teche and the southern Mississippi Valley. Our exhibit will center around
Fort Brashear and the Young family and properties and will detail the Federal occupation
of the Brashear (now Morgan City) area.
By summer we hope to open an exhibit on the Twenty-sixth Louisiana
Infantry and their contribution to the War Between the States. This unit moved to
the defense of New Orleans in 1862, spent forty-six days in the trenches at the siege of
Vicksburg, then fought around the Red River after their exchange. This project will
center around three officers of the Twenty-sixth who left record of their
experiences: First Lieutenant Jared Sanders II, Captain Mannah Wheaton Bateman, and
the regiment's colonel, Winchester Hall.
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