The Twin Spans of I-10 between Slidell and New Orleans East were virtually destroyed, and much of I-10 in New Orleans East was under water.

Caroline was a sister-in-law of John Slidell, a U. S. senator from Louisiana and later a Confederate diplomat.

The town was named in honor of American politician and Confederate ambassador to France John Slidell, father-in-law of real estate developer Baron Frederic Emile d ' Erlanger and officially chartered by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1888.

A large creosote plant was built, and Slidell became home to the Fritz Salmen Brickyard, a major producer of bricks later named St. Joe Brick.

* Tom Thornhill, a Slidell attorney and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1996 – 2000, was raised in Bogalusa and graduated from Bogalusa High School.

Tony Canzoneri ( November 6, 1908 – December 9, 1959 in Slidell, Louisiana ) was an American professional boxer.

Juvenile's Slidell, Louisiana home was damaged during Hurricane Katrina.

The National Weather Service forecast office for the area was once located at MSY, but has moved to the suburb of Slidell, and now uses the non-airport codes LIX and KLIX.

John Slidell ( 1793July 9, 1871 ) was an American politician, lawyer and businessman.

He was the older brother of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, a US naval officer.

He was born to the merchant John Slidell and the former Margery Mackenzie, a Scot.

Slidell was in the mercantile business in New York before he relocated to New Orleans.

Prior to the Mexican-American War, Slidell was sent to Mexico, by President James Knox Polk, to negotiate an agreement whereby the Rio Grande would be the southern border of Texas.

The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.

Upon boarding, Fairfax was escorted to an outraged Captain Moir, and announced that he had orders " to arrest Mr. Mason and Mr. Slidell and their secretaries, and send them prisoners on board the United States war vessel nearby.

Harvard law professor Theophilus Parsons wrote, “ I am just as certain that Wilkes had a legal right to take Mason and Slidell from the Trent, as I am that our government has a legal right to blockade the port of Charleston .” Caleb Cushing, a prominent Democrat, and former Attorney General ( under Franklin Pierce ) concurred: “ In my judgment, the act of Captain Wilkes was one which any and every self-respecting nation must and would have done by its own sovereign right and power, regardless of circumstances .” Richard Henry Dana, Jr., considered an expert on maritime law, justified the detention because the envoys were engaged “ solely a mission hostile to the United States ,” making them guilty of “ treason within our municipal law .” Edward Everett, a former minister to Great Britain and a former Secretary of State, also argued that “ the detention was perfectly lawful their confinement in Fort Warren will be perfectly lawful .”

In his diary, Chase wrote that the release of Mason and Slidell “… was like gall and wormwood to me.

Through his sister, Mathilde, he was a brother-in-law of John Slidell, a U. S. senator from Louisiana and later a Confederate diplomat.

John's sister, Jane Slidell, was married to Matthew C. Perry, who was the Commodore of the U. S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.

His mother, Caroline Slidell ( née Perry ), was the daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who was renowned for commanding the naval expedition that opened Japan in 1853-54.

In light of the competing new theories of Muñoz and Navarrete, Washington Irving ( 1828 ), with the asssistance of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, set out the case for Cat island, and was supported by the weight of Alexander von Humboldt ( 1837 ).

Employing the political influence of his brother-in-law, John Slidell, Beauregard obtained an appointment as superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy on January 23, 1861.

Slidell () is a city situated on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.

In 2005, Slidell suffered extensive damage from the effects of Hurricane Katrina as the storm made final landfall on the morning of August 29.

The Slidell Amtrak station is situated on Front Street in Olde Towne Slidell, with a beautiful view of one of the city's parks, Heritage, which is complete with playground equipment for younger children and open spaces for people to play football.

Slidell is located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Interstate 10, Interstate 12, Interstate 59, and U. S. Highway 11.

Before the outbreak of hostilities, on 10 November 1845, President James K. Polk, had sent his envoy, John Slidell, to Mexico to offer the country around $ 5 million for the territory of Nuevo México, and up to $ 40 million for Alta California ( the present State of California ).

When Wilkes learned that James Murray Mason and John Slidell, two Confederate commissioners to England, were bound for England on the British mail packet Trent, he ordered the steam frigate San Jacinto to stop them.

The Theodora docked in Cárdenas, Cuba on October 16, and Mason and Slidell disembarked.

Union intelligence had not immediately recognized that Mason and Slidell had left Charleston on Theodora.

In Cienfuegos he learned from a newspaper that Mason and Slidell were scheduled to leave Havana on November 7 in the British mail packet RMS Trent, bound first for St. Thomas and then England.

The Trent left on November 7 as scheduled, with Mason, Slidell, their secretaries, and Slidell ’ s wife and children aboard.

Senator Charles Sumner, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a frequent consultant to President Lincoln on foreign relations, had recognized immediately that the United States must release Mason and Slidell, but he had remained publicly silent during the weeks of high excitement.

Within two months of the time of the disaster, construction had begun on houses in the Louisiana cities of Covington and Slidell, near New Orleans.

Prior to the Causeway, residents of St. Tammany Parish used either the Maestri Bridge on U. S. Route 11 or the Rigolets Bridge on U. S. Route 90, both near Slidell, Louisiana or on the west side via U. S. Route 51 through Manchac, Louisiana.

The landing of one hundred and eighty-one officer, sailors, and marines provided with four days ' rations and water was made on June 13 under the command of Commander George E. Belknap of the, accompanied by Lieutenant Commander Alexander Slidell MacKenzie, fleet lieutenant as second in command.

In 1842, aboard Somers in the African Squadron, commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie ordered the arrest of three crewmen on November 26 and 27 who were plotting to take control of the ship.

He was born on December 28, 1851 in New York City, the son of Caroline Slidell ( née Perry ) and August Belmont.

Plenty stayed on scene for the following year and organized clean-up and repair of the damage along the coastlines of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, including the cities of Mobile ( Alabama ), Biloxi and Gulfport ( Mississippi ), and Slidell ( Louisiana ).

Routes 11 and 190 continue to the north, intersecting with many locally maintained roads in Slidell.

Parker was assigned to the shore battery from the Potomac with all batteries under the overall command of Captain Alexander Slidell Mackenzie.