Louisiana coincidence

I've experienced a number of minor coincidences in the course of working on the column and books. All occur as a result of the ebb and flow of research and exchange of information. Recent case and point: I'm working on about fifteen soldiers now, all at varying stages of research. Last week, as Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, I received the last bits of research needed to begin writing a profile of Lt. John McKinley Gibson of the Thirteenth Louisiana Infantry. His family owned sugar plantations in Louisiana's Terrebonne Parrish, an area that lay directly in the path of Katrina.