The encroachment of the Mississippi River required the White Castle home be moved back from the river no less than four times. Every time the home was moved, parts of it were removed and taken away, some of it burned, some of it salvaged by others, each successive time until only a part of the original home was left.
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Mansfield Lovell (October 20, 1822 – June 1, 1884) major general in the Confederate States Army. As military commander of New Orleans when the city unexpectedly fell to the Union Navy in 1862, Lovell was fiercely criticized by local citizens for failing to predict a naval invasion. The Confederate government also heaped blame on him, to deflect attention from their own error in leaving so few troops to defend the city. A Court of Enquiry la
