New Orleans

New Orleans is a major U.S. port and the largest city in the state of Louisiana. It is located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi River. The city is named after Philippe II, Duc d'Orléans, Regent of France, and is well known for its multicultural and multilingual heritage, cuisine, architecture, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz), and its annual celebrations and festivals, particularly Mardi Gras.

New Orleans in "Must and Shall"
New Orleans was a restive city even after the South lost the Great Rebellion. In the 1940s, the FBS broke-up a gun smuggling ring that intended to stage an uprising.

New Orleans in Atlantis
Johh James Audubon and Edward Harris sailed from New Orleans to Atlantis in 1843. At that time it was a big, cosmopolitan city, in the process of switching from French to English as the dominant language of daily life. The currency used in New Orleans at the time was the Livre.

Editorial Note
In OTL the Livre was the currency of France for a thousand years, until replaced by the Franc during the French Revolution, in 1795. The story does not specify how in this timeline it came to survive in New Orleans until the mid-19 Century.

New Orleans in Southern Victory
New Orleans was one of the few key Confederate cities the Union was able to hold early in the War of Secession, although it ultimately did the Union cause little good.

Before being elected President, Jake Featherston greatly disliked New Orleans because of the relatively affluent and assertive black community which resided there. For exactly that reason, he held there a conference of the Freedom Party, not yet in power, and came to make a stirring speech so as to assert his authority.

When Featherston became CSA President, New Orleans along with the rest of Louisiana initially defied his authority. He gained control of the city after the assassination of Huey Long.

During both the Great War and the Second Great War, New Orleans was one of the key industrial points for the C.S. that remained insulated from attack. During the Second Great War, as late as 1944, when the U.S. was winning decisively on all fronts, U.S. General Irving Morrell was frustrated by the realization that New Orleans could be bombed by the air, but that it would be some time before U.S. troops would get into the city. Even after the war ended, Louisiana as a whole remained defiant in the face of the U.S. occupation.

New Orleans in The Two Georges
New Orleans was a city in the North American Union province of Louisiana. It was situated on the delta at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

The city was famous throughout the Union for its raucous, electric music; the Nawleans sound in mimicry of the drawl of the city's residents. It turned up in many unexpected places. For instance, Joseph Watkins was listening to it on the wireless when Colonel Thomas Bushell arrived to search his apartment in connection with the theft of The Two Georges.

A few days later a reporter for the New Orleans Herald-Leader and Picayune telephoned Colonel Bushell for an interview after the newspaper received a copy of the ransom demand.