

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: History Lecture: Metairie in the Civil War
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Lt. Col. James M. Larkin, USAF (ret.), will discuss Metairie in the Civil War on Tuesday, March 10, 7 pm, at the East Bank Regional Library (4747 W. Napoleon Ave. in Metairie). This event is free of charge and open to the public. 

Col. Larkin’s talk will cover the Camp Parapet fortifications, which ran along what is now Causeway Boulevard, the gun emplacements on the 17th Street Canal, the military railroad which paralleled Metairie Road, and the Army Depot in Old Metairie that supported the Parapet Line for much of the war.

He will also discuss the Confederate military units, like the Jefferson Mounted Guard Cavalry and Jefferson Rifles, that were recruited from Jefferson Parish and fought in all the major battles of the war. The talk will also touch on the contraband camp, now occupied by Ochsner Hospital’s parking lot, and the neighboring Todd mansion on River Road that was owned by President Lincoln’s brother-in-law. 

The talk will also cover the tens of thousands of Union troops stationed in Metairie, and the raising of the first black regiments, their torturous beginning under Union General John Phelps, resulting in his resignation, and their ultimate acceptance into the regular US Army. A number of these men would later form the nucleus of the famous Buffalo Soldiers.

Col. Larkin grew up in Metairie and has been interested in what took place in the New Orleans area during the Civil War, one of the most tumultuous periods in the region’s history.  Since 2010, after retiring, he has been pouring through regimental histories, the Compendium of the War, soldier diaries and military maps at the National Archives to get a picture of the people and events that occurred in the New Orleans region during the conflict.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/metairie/history-lecture-metairie-in-the-civil-war/200029777546542
- **Event Categories**: Nonprofit
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Metairie
- **state**: LA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: East Bank Regional Library
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- **full address**: East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W Napoleon Ave,Metairie,LA,United States

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- **organizer**: Jefferson Parish Library (https://allevents.in/org/jefferson-parish-library/924457)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W Napoleon Ave,Metairie,LA,United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Jefferson Parish Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Nonprofit
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