The 150th anniversary of Louisiana’s secession from the United States is passing with little notice in the state. A group of Sons of Confederate Veterans recently staged a reenactment of the seizing of a federal garrison in Baton Rouge, and the signing of the Louisiana Ordinance of Secession — the papers that made the state the sixth to leave the Union. But the state planned no official commemoration of Wednesday’s anniversary. Some Civil War experts say too many strong feelings about secession and the war make it a less popular event to commemorate than the 200th anniversary of Louisiana joining the U.S.
Secession anniversary largely ignored in La.
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