Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War - Hardcoverby J. Matthew Ward (Author), T. Michael Parrish (Editor) J. Matthew Ward's Garden of Ruins serves as an insightful social and military history of Civil War era Louisiana. Partially occupied by Union forces starting in the spring of 1862, the Confederate state experienced the initial attempts of the U. S. Army to create a comprehensive occupation structure through military actions, social regulations, the destabilization of slavery, and the formation