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    Date: 1/26/99
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   18

CIVIL WAR EXHIBIT AT SLU'S CENTER FOR REGIONAL STUDIES
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University's Center for Regional Studies will
sponsor a special exhibit on The Civil War in Louisiana, Feb. 1-March 26. 
     Director Samuel Hyde said the exhibit draws on the center's and Southeastern archives'
resources and will include rare documents, newspapers, private writings and artifacts with a
special emphasis on southeastern Louisiana.
     "Although when most people think of the Civil War their attention is drawn to the large
scale operations in Virginia or Georgia, events in Louisiana remained central to determining the
outcome of the war," Hyde said. "In addition to countless skirmishes, raids, and an enduring
guerrilla war, Louisiana served as home to the largest naval engagement in North American
waters, the last and most significant offensive campaign in the western theater of the war, and the
largest training base for Confederate troops in the Gulf South."
     The exhibit is housed in the Center for Regional Studies on the second floor of Sims
Memorial Library. It will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., weekdays. For additional
information, call the center at 504-549-2151.
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