place_of_death st. john richardson liddell
St . John Richardson Liddell ( September 6 , 1815 -- February 14 , 1870 ) was a prominent ___MASK43___ planter who served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . He was an outspoken proponent of Southern emancipation of slaves . Liddell was murdered by a former Confederate Officer near his home in 1870 . ___MASK10___ ( or ) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana . The population of the city was 343 , 829 as of the 2010 U . S . Census . The ___MASK10___ metropolitan area ( ___MASK10___  Metairie  Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area ) had a population of 1 , 167 , 764 in 2010 and was the 46th largest in the United States . The ___MASK10___  Metairie  Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area , a larger trading area , had a 2010 population of 1 , 452 , 502 . ___MASK58___ is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States . Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin , the Quapaw Indians . The state ' s diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains , which make up the U . S . Interior Highlands , to the densely forested land in the south known as the ___MASK58___ Timberlands , to the eastern lowlands along the ___MASK23___ River and the ___MASK58___ Delta . Secession ( derived from the Latin term " secessio ") is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity , especially a political entity ( a country ), but also any organization , ___MASK6___ or military ___MASK93___ . Threats of secession can also be a strategy for achieving more limited goals . The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865 . The ___MASK6___ faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America . The ___MASK6___ won the war , which remains the bloodiest in U . S . history . A civil war , also known as an intrastate war in polemology , is a war between organized groups within the same state or country , or , less commonly , between two countries created from a formerly united state . The aim of one ___MASK52___ may be to take control of the country or a region , to achieve ___MASK32___ for a region or to change government policies . The term is a calque of the Latin " bellum civile " which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the ___MASK26___ Republic in the 1st century BC . ___MASK23___ is a state in the southern region of the United States , with part of its southern border formed by the ___MASK92___ . Its western border is formed by the ___MASK23___ River . ___MASK43___ ( or ; ___MASK43___ Creole : " Léta de la Lwizyàn ") is a state located in the southern region of the United States . ___MASK43___ is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States . Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is ___MASK10___ . ___MASK43___ is the only state in the U . S . with political subdivisions termed parishes , which are the local government ' s equivalent to counties . The largest parish by population is East Baton Rouge Parish , and the largest by total area is Plaquemines . ___MASK43___ is bordered by Arkansas to the north , Mississippi to the east , Texas to the west , and the Gulf of Mexico to the south . The Confederate States Army ( CSA ) was the military ground force of the Confederate States ( C . S .), also known as the " Confederacy ", while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil War . On February 28 , 1861 , the Provisional Confederate Congress established a provisional volunteer army and gave control over military operations and authority for mustering state forces and volunteers to the Confederate president , ___MASK49___ ___MASK55___ , a graduate of the U . S . Military Academy and colonel of a volunteer regiment during the Mexican War . In March 1861 , the Provisional Confederate Congress established a more permanent Confederate States Army . ___MASK49___ Finis ___MASK55___ ( June 3 , 1808  December 6 , 1889 ) was an American politician who was a U . S . Representative and Senator from ___MASK23___ , the 23rd U . S . Secretary of War , and the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War . He took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the more populous and industrialized Union . His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any foreign country , and at home , the collapsing Confederate economy forced his government to print more and more paper money to cover the war ' s expenses , leading to runaway inflation and devaluation of the Confederate dollar . The Confederate States , officially the Confederate States of America ( CSA or C . S .), commonly referred to as the Confederacy , was an unrecognized breakaway country of 11 secessionist slave states existing from 1861 to 1865 . It was originally formed by seven slave states  ___MASK62___ , ___MASK23___ , Florida , Alabama , Georgia , ___MASK43___ , and Texas  in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture , particularly cotton , and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African - American slaves . ___MASK28___ is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population . Geographically located in the south central part of the country , ___MASK28___ shares borders with the U . S . states of ___MASK43___ to the east , Arkansas to the northeast , Oklahoma to the north , New Mexico to the west , and the Mexican states of Chihuahua , Coahuila , Nuevo León , and Tamaulipas to the southwest , while the ___MASK92___ is to the southeast . The ___MASK92___ is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent . It is bounded on the northeast , north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States , on the southwest and south by Mexico , and on the southeast by Cuba . The U . S . states of Alabama , Florida , Louisiana , Mississippi and Texas border the Gulf on the north , which are often referred to as the " Third Coast " in comparison with the U . S . Atlantic and Pacific coasts , or sometimes the " south coast ", in juxtaposition to the Great Lakes region being the " north coast ." One of the gulf ' s seven main areas is the ___MASK92___ basin .