New Orleans, LA

New Orleans, Louisiana, from Saint Patrick's Church, 1852

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Life span		Type
10/02/1867 to 10/06/1867	A Gulf of Mexico hurricane causes heavy damage along the Texas and Louisiana coastlines.	Crime/Disasters
12/24/1866	A Mississippi steamboat burns to the waterline at its dock in New Orleans, Louisiana	Crime/Disasters
10/03/1866	A passenger ship is sunk in a hurricane off the Carolina coast with very heavy loss of life.	Crime/Disasters
04/01/1867	A steamboat burns to the waterline on the Mississippi but all aboard have a lucky escape.	Crime/Disasters
01/16/1858	A tornado strikes the city and port of New Orleans	Crime/Disasters
09/29/1852	American ship bound for New Orleans founders off the coast of Ireland	Crime/Disasters
11/03/1859	Another large fire strikes New Orleans leaving five hundred homeless	Crime/Disasters
02/11/1860	Commercial vessel bound for New York sinks off Cape Hatteras	Crime/Disasters
01/08/1861	Democrats celebrate "St. Hickory's Day" in honor of Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans	Campaigns/Elections
03/12/1866	Democrats sweep to power in the accelerated New Orleans city elections.	Campaigns/Elections
06/03/1867	Fifth District military governor General Phil Sheridan removes from office the sitting Louisiana governor.	Lawmaking/Litigating
03/27/1867	Fifth District military governor General Phil Sheridan removes several New Orleans officials from office.	Lawmaking/Litigating
06/13/1860	Fire burns a cotton press and two thousand bales of cotton in New Orleans	Crime/Disasters
10/23/1859 to 10/24/1859	Fire destroys a large section of New Orleans' thriving Fourth District	Crime/Disasters
11/04/1865	Fugitive Confederate States founder and General Robert Toombs sails for Cuba from New Orleans	Personal
04/26/1862	In a defiant New Orleans, a mob tears down a Union flag hoisted over the U.S. Mint	Campaigns/Elections
01/11/1867	In Alabama, a New Orleans bound steamboat is destroyed by fire and at least four people die.	Crime/Disasters
04/25/1862	In Louisiana, a helpless New Orleans resists Union demands for its capitulation	Battles/Soldiers
10/31/1860	In Louisiana, a Mississippi steamboat's boiler ruptures and scalds forty-five people aboard to death	Crime/Disasters
04/27/1862 to 04/28/1862	In Louisiana, the garrison of Fort Jackson mutinies and the fort surrenders soon after	Battles/Soldiers
12/24/1860	In New Orleans, a massive meeting endorses candidates for the upcoming secession convention	Campaigns/Elections
07/30/1866	In New Orleans, a Republican effort to meet in Constitutional Convention results in riots and scores die.	Crime/Disasters
07/29/1863	In New Orleans, leading Creole citizen Captain Andre Cailloux is given a hero's funeral	Battles/Soldiers
03/05/1864	In New Orleans, Michael Hahn is inaugurated as the first elected post-Confederate governor of Louisiana	Campaigns/Elections
03/19/1866	In New Orleans, military governor General Edward Canby suspends the results of the mayoral election	Campaigns/Elections
01/02/1866	In New Orleans, two French-language newspaper editors, about to duel with swords, are arrested	Crime/Disasters
05/30/1862	In Union occupied New Orleans, William B. Mumford goes on trial for pulling down an American flag	Lawmaking/Litigating
06/07/1862	In Union occupied New Orleans, William B. Mumford is hanged for treason	Lawmaking/Litigating
03/05/1864	In Union Square in New York City, the 20th U. S. C. T. receives its colors and departs for New Orleans	Battles/Soldiers
06/27/1865	In Washington, a major military reorganization divides the nation into five large military districts	Battles/Soldiers
02/04/1860	Last gap closed in a continuous rail line from Maine to New Orleans	Business/Industry
01/17/1860	Louisiana Governor Wickliffe recommends economic self-defense for the South	Business/Industry
07/08/1866	Louisiana radicals order the reconvoking of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1864.	Campaigns/Elections
01/31/1861	Louisiana seizes the United States Mint and the United States Customs House in New Orleans	Lawmaking/Litigating
11/18/1860	Louisville to New Orleans steamboat burns near Uniontown, Kentucky and eight die	Crime/Disasters
05/01/1862	Major General Benjamin Butler begins his notorious eight months as military governor of New Orleans	Battles/Soldiers
03/06/1867	Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans with the traditional parades.	Education/Culture
12/27/1866	Mississippi steamboat catches fire in the middle of the night and forty-three people are drowned.	Crime/Disasters
11/15/1866	Near Donaldsonville, Louisiana, a Mississippi steamboat burns and six people are killed.	Crime/Disasters
12/21/1860	New Orleans celebrates the secession of South Carolina	Lawmaking/Litigating
03/31/1858	New railroad completed linking Jackson, Mississippi with New Orleans	Business/Industry
12/28/1861	Off Mississippi, a U.S. Navy steamer collides with a French warship sent to evacuate citizens from New Orleans	US/the World
04/23/1865 to 04/24/1865	On the Mississippi, a Confederate warship makes a bold breakout and almost reaches the open sea	Battles/Soldiers
01/15/1860	Scores of free blacks sail from New Orleans to begin a new life in Haiti	Slavery/Abolition
05/02/1862	Secretary of State Seward tells all foreign diplomats New Orleans will soon again be open for business	US/the World
11/24/1865	Seventy-five people die in a steamboat collision near Helena, Arkansas	Crime/Disasters
11/07/1859	State wide elections held across Louisiana	Campaigns/Elections
03/13/1860	Steamboat burns on Lake Pontchartrain and eighteen lives lost	Crime/Disasters
02/27/1859	Steamboat Princess explodes and sinks on the lower Mississippi with heavy loss of life	Crime/Disasters
11/11/1863	Steamer from St. Louis to New Orleans attacked below Vicksburg, Mississippi	Battles/Soldiers
11/06/1860	Stephen Douglas receives updates on election returns while in Mobile, Alabama	Campaigns/Elections
08/05/1866	The convention riots in New Orleans claim more victims as two delegates die from their injuries.	Crime/Disasters
12/01/1859	The French Opera House opens in New Orleans	Education/Culture
03/02/1858	The metallic tie for cotton bales patented	Commercial
02/09/1866	The Republican governor of Louisiana vetoes early elections for New Orleans.	Campaigns/Elections
07/16/1863	The steamboat Imperial arrives in New Orleans from St. Louis, the first since early 1861	Business/Industry
10/01/1867	The Union League of New York City hosts a massive reception for General Philip Sheridan.	Battles/Soldiers
02/17/1860	Thousands see American emigrant ship founder off French coast	Crime/Disasters
08/21/1858	U.S. Navy captures American slaveship with 318 slaves aboard	Slavery/Abolition
08/02/1866	Union General Philip Sheridan calls the mayor of New Orleans "a bad man" and recommends his removal.	Battles/Soldiers
12/03/1861	Union infantry arrives at Ship Island, Mississippi in the first build-up of forces intending to capture New Orleans	Battles/Soldiers
04/24/1862	Union naval units under Commodore Farragut break past Confederate defenses towards New Orleans	Battles/Soldiers
11/30/1865	Volunteer Generals Butler and Dix end their Civil War military service	Battles/Soldiers
02/03/1858	William Walker and his companions are indicted in New Orleans under the Neutrality Laws	Lawmaking/Litigating
08/06/1860	William Walker and his men capture Trujillo on the Honduran coast	Battles/Soldiers
10/03/1859	William Walker launches another fillibustering attempt against Nicaragua from New Orleans	Battles/Soldiers
10/07/1859	William Walker's latest filibustering attempt ends before it begins with arrest by U.S. Marshals	Crime/Disasters
07/08/1863	With the Mississippi River open again to traffic, the steamboat Imperial departs St Louis for New Orleans	Business/Industry

Major Topics

Filibustering

People

Birth Place of

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant

Pierre G. T. Beauregard, Brady image, detail

Beecher, Frederick H.

Cushman, Pauline

Gottschalk, Louis Moreau

Stark, Benjamin

West, Joseph Rodman

Joseph Rodman West, in uniform, circa 1865, detail

Burial Place of

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant

Benton, William Plummer

Cailloux, André

Attack of the Louisiana Native Guard at Port Hudson, Louisiana, May 27, 1863, artist's impression, black officer detail

Conrad, Charles Magill

Field, Alexander Pope

Flanders, Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Flanders, circa 1860, detail

Hays, Harry Thompson

Hood, John Bell

Monroe, John Tompkins

Moody, Young Marshall

Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, detail

Taylor, Richard

Places

Name	Type
United States Mint, New Orleans, LA	Location or Site

Documents

Subject

Date	Title
01/09/1847	Debate Over Increase of the Army, House of Representatives, January 9, 1847
02/03/1851	Seth Concklin to William Still, February 3, 1851
04/20/1852	New York Times, “Great Floods in the Potomac and Shenandoah,” April 20, 1852
01/07/1856	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “More Fillibusters [Filibusters],” January 7, 1856
02/03/1857	New York Times, "Fatal Duel at New Orleans," February 3, 1857
02/25/1857	New York Times, “Kansas and the South,” February 25, 1857
04/03/1857	New York Times, “Fillibustering Expedition Against Costa Rica,” April 3, 1857
05/15/1857	New York Times, “A Suspected Slaver Captured,” May 15, 1857
07/29/1857	New York Times, “A Fugitive Slave Excitement in Philadelphia,” July 29, 1857
08/12/1857	Hiram Wilson to William Still, August 12, 1857
09/14/1857	New York Times, “The Financial Panic,” September 14, 1857
10/30/1857	New York Times, “The Ballot-Box and the Bayonet,” October 30, 1857
11/26/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "Gen. Walker and the Administration," November 26, 1857
12/11/1857	New York Times, “More Slave Cases,” December 11, 1857
01/27/1858	New York Herald, "The Approaching Conclusion of the Kansas Comedy," January 27, 1858
04/12/1858	New York Times, “Highly Important from Mexico,” April 12, 1858
06/04/1858	New York Times, “A Warning ,” June 4, 1858
06/05/1858	New York Times, “The New Orleans Committee,” June 5, 1858
06/06/1858	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Revolution in New Orleans,” June 6, 1858
06/07/1858	New York Times, “Further Excitement in New Orleans,” June 7, 1858
06/09/1858	New York Times, “End of the New Orleans Rebellion,” June 9, 1858
07/06/1858	New York Times, “Letter from General William Walker,” July 6, 1858
09/11/1858	New York Times, “Aid Wanted for New Orleans,” September 11, 1858
10/30/1858	New York Times, “Yellow Fever in New Orleans,” October 30, 1858
11/02/1858	New York Times, “Health of New Orleans,” November 2, 1858
11/14/1858	(St. Louis) Missouri Republican, “Military,” November 14, 1858
11/25/1858	(St. Louis) Missouri Republican, “Judge Douglas,” November 25, 1858
11/28/1858	New York Herald, “Mr. Douglas On His Travels,” November 28, 1858
12/19/1858	New York Times, “The New Orleans Epidemic,” December 19, 1858
12/31/1858	(St. Louis) Missouri Republican, “Senator Douglas,” December 31, 1858
01/02/1859	New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Quick,” January 2, 1859
01/30/1859	Memphis (TN) Appeal, “From New Orleans,” January 30, 1859
02/01/1859	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Slave Market of New Orleans,” February 1, 1859
02/05/1859	New York Times, "Mexican News," February 5, 1859
02/15/1859	New York Times, “The Cuban Scheme at the South,” February 15, 1859
03/01/1859	New York Times, “Terrible Steamboat Disaster,” March 1, 1859
04/12/1859	New York Times, “Highly Important from Mexico,” April 12, 1859
06/09/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Greeley Meets a Slave Dealer,” June 9, 1859
08/11/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “The Slave Trade at the North,” August 11, 1859
08/28/1859	New York Herald, “Important to Persons of Color,” August 28, 1859
09/06/1859	New York Times, “Northern Mexico,” September 6, 1859
10/11/1859	New York Times, “A Shabby Trick,” October 11, 1859
10/22/1859	New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "Monthly Passes to Negros," October 22, 1859
12/03/1859	Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Walker vs. Brown,” December 3, 1859
12/12/1859	William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, December 12, 1859
12/22/1859	New York Times, "Southern Students in New York," December 22, 1859
12/23/1859	New York Times, "The Southern Medical Students," December 23, 1859
12/26/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Medical Students,” December 26, 1859
02/13/1860	New York Times, “The Post-Office and the Express,” February 13, 1860
03/31/1860	C.G. Baylor to Robert Hunter, March 31, 1860
06/01/1860	Abraham Lincoln, Autobiography, circa June 1860
08/19/1860	New York Herald, “The Whereabouts of Walker,” August 19, 1860
08/22/1860	New York Times, “Walker Again,” August 22, 1860
08/29/1860	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, "What Walker's Success Means," August 29, 1860
11/13/1860	Chicago (IL) Tribune, "Secession and Finance," November 13, 1860
11/18/1860	New York Herald, “Douglas on Lincoln,” November 18, 1860
11/23/1860	William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, November 23, 1860
11/29/1860	William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, November 29, 1860
02/23/1861	(Concord) New Hampshire Statesman, “What Will Lincoln Do?,” February 23, 1861
03/11/1861	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “A Scurvy Trick,” March 11, 1861
04/02/1861	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Beauties of the ‘Institution’,” April 2, 1861
05/01/1861	New York Times, “Arms for the Rebels,” May 1, 1861
05/24/1861	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “Protection of New Orleans,” May 24, 1861
06/03/1861	New York Times, “One of their Errors,” June 3, 1861
06/20/1861	New York Times, “Famine Among the Confederates,” June 20, 1861
07/25/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “What is a Blockade?,” July 25, 1861
08/25/1861	New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Confederate Treasury Notes,” August 25, 1861
04/26/1862	Mayor John T. Monroe to Flag-Officer David Farragut
05/01/1862	Major General Benjamin F. Butler, Proclamation to the Citizens of New Orleans, May 1, 1862
05/03/1862	Major-General Mansfield Lovell, General Order 17, May 3, 1862
07/26/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Reverdy Johnson, Washington, DC, July 26, 1862
07/28/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Cuthbert Bullitt, July 28, 1862
09/13/1862	Abraham Lincoln, Reply to Emancipation Memorial Presented by Chicago Christians of All Denominations, September 13, 1862
11/21/1862	Abraham Lincoln to George Foster Shepley, November 21, 1862
07/10/1863	John Keagy Stayman to Edgar Hastings, July 1863
07/17/1863	New York Times, “Gen. Banks,” July 17, 1863
07/18/1863	William Elisha Stoker to Elizabeth E. Stoker, July 18, 1863
12/09/1863	George F. Shepley to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, December 09, 1862
03/15/1864	Ruben F. Briggs to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, March 15, 1864, New Orleans, Louisiana
04/27/1865	Chief Engineer Nathan Witringer, Reminiscences of the Sultana Disaster, April 27, 1865, written on April 14, 1886.
07/15/1865	Edward R.S. Canby, General Orders No. 109, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 15, 1865
07/23/1866	Edmund Abell to the Grand Jury of the Criminal Court, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 23, 1866.
07/30/1866	John Tompkins Monroe to the People of New Orleans, New Orleans, July 30, 1866.
08/01/1866	Philip H. Sheridan to Ulysses S. Grant, New Orleans, August 1, 1866.
08/02/1866	Philip H. Sheridan to Ulysses S. Grant, New Orleans, August 2, 1866.
08/03/1866	Philip H. Sheridan to Ulysses S. Grant, New Orleans, August 3, 1866.
08/04/1866	Andrew Johnson to Philip H. Sheridan, Washington, DC, August 4, 1866.
08/06/1866	Philip H. Sheridan to Andrew Johnson, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 6, 1866.