Morgan City and Berwick were among the most fought over places in Louisiana during the Civil War.Demon rum was much on the minds of the people of at least part of south Louisiana a century ago, iBefore the railroads were built in the 1880s, the prairies of southwest Louisiana were sparsely settled and, if reports from early traLouisiana's French speakers were in demand during World War II, especially when interpreters were needed as GIs fought their way across France after D-Day.The muddy season of the year prompted a writer to the Abbeville newspaper in 1877 to explain an editor's duties to his or her readers 
