You're going to Welcome to the new episode of American Hauntings, the podcast dedicated to the history, hauntings, legends, and lore of America's past.

Show is hosted and produced by Cody Beck

and written and performed by Troy Taylor.

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And we are now in our fourth season haunted New Orleans

If you're tuning into the podcast for the first time we suggest you start listening to the haunted New Orleans season with episode 53 which is where this season begins,

and where we set the stage for the many dark tales ahead.

In each episode of the season, we'll be revealing the history, mystery, spirit,

scandals, and sins of New Orleans,

a city we believe is the most haunted in America.

So raise the flag, dust off your old uniform, and make sure your powder is dry

as we dive into the next episode of Haunted New Orleans. The Civil War era was a very strange time in New Orleans history.

It was a city very deep in the south and far beyond the Confederate lines and yet it spent the vast

majority of the war under union control. It was a messy time not just for New Orleans

but for the entire country. On November 6th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as

president of the United States. He was an unpopular choice in the South, to put it mildly,

and his election led directly to the destruction of the Union.

Five months after the election, the United States was at war with itself.

The war that followed was the culmination of more than 30 years of debate and bloodshed over slavery

and the expansion of slavery into the new territories of the West. The first state to

secede from the Union was South Carolina and as it turned out this was not the first time that the

seed from the Union was South Carolina, and as it turned out, this was not the first time that the people of South Carolina had discussed leaving the United States.

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