ointe Coupee Parish, Vermilionville, Sabine Pass, Bayou Bourbeau, Catahoula Basin, Niblett’s Bluff. The place names roll off the tongue like sweet tea and étouffée. Fighting in these locales was another matter altogether. Malarial swamps, sawgrass coastal flats, pine tree thickets, and sugarcane stubble fields dominated the geography. Such was the Civil War in western Louisiana and eastern
