Changes

==Background==

==Background==

Caspari was born in Lauterbourg in northeastern [[France]], to David Caspari (1800–1873) and the former Charlotte Baruch (1802–1844). He was a young [[apprentice]] in a dry goods store. In 1849 at the age of nineteen, five years after the death of his mother, and a year following the [[Revolution of 1848]],<ref name=caspari/> Caspari emigrated to the [[United States]]. He first settled as a merchant in Cloutierville in [[Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]] south of the city of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], where he lived after 1858. He served in the [[Confederate States of America]] Army as a member of Pelican Rangers No. 1 at the rank of [[second lieutenant]]. By the end of the [[American Civil War]], he had been promoted to the rank of [[Captain]].<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-c/|title=Caspari, Leopold|publisher=Louisiana Historical Association:  ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|accessdate=December 28, 2019}}</ref>

Caspari was born in Lauterbourg in northeastern [[France]], to David Caspari (1800–1873) and the former Charlotte Baruch (1802–1844). He was a young [[apprentice]] in a dry goods store. In 1849 at the age of nineteen, five years after the death of his mother, and a year following the [[Europe|European Revolution of 1848,<ref name=caspari/> Caspari emigrated to the [[United States]]. He first settled as a merchant in Cloutierville in [[Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]] south of the city of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], where he lived after 1858. He served in the [[Confederate States of America]] Army as a member of Pelican Rangers No. 1 at the rank of [[second lieutenant]]. By the end of the [[American Civil War]], he had been promoted to the rank of [[Captain]].<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-c/|title=Caspari, Leopold|publisher=Louisiana Historical Association:  ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|accessdate=December 28, 2019}}</ref>

==Public life==

==Public life==