Stories
Click here to download a copy of "Hispanics in the Civil War". 
Click here to download a copy of "Slavery: Cause and Catalyst of the Civil War". 
Click here to download a copy of "A Planter's Son Goes to War", a biography of Civil War veteran Jacques Alphonse Prud'homme written by Thomas M. Brennan. |
Did You Know?
Oakland plantation’s first cash crops were tobacco and indigo, followed by
cotton in the 1800s. According to family tradition, the Prud’hommes were
the first family west of the Mississippi River to farm cotton on a large scale.