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No wonder some ambitious young writer made the discovery, after Banks’s discomfiture on the Red River, that New Orleans has been the Capua of our Northern armies.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid comments on the perception of New Orleans as a place of leisure for Northern troops during the Civil War.
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