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For more information on Civil War Louisiana, visit HI THE ST O RIC EXHIBITION REVISITS CIVIL WAR-ERA NEW ORLEANS O NEW N RLEA S COLL EC T ,G ON I I FT C OF , LLU CU CU DE LY T he sesquicentennial of the American Civil War has been an occasion for widespread reflection on the causes and During the Union occupation, legacies of that pivotal conflict. A new exhibition at The locals treasured personal Historic New Orleans Collection-Occupy New Orleans! keepsakes of the Confederacy, such as this Voices from the Civil War-invites visitors to listen carefully to voices command of Flag Officer David miniature hand-stitched flag. from the past, the better to refine their own visions for the future. The Glasgow Farragut advanced on Forts exhibition culls first-person perspectives of wartime New Orleans Jackson and St. Philip, some 65 from THNOC's rich manuscript and pictorial holdings, the archives of miles downriver from New Orleans. Sixteen ships ran past the the Library of Congress and the collections of New Orleans's own forts in the early morning hours of April 24. Cutting their losses, Confederate Memorial Hall Museum. Occupy New Orleans! remains on Confederate leadership made a strategic decision to withdraw view through March 9, 2014. See the calendar listings, at right, for a ordnance and troops from the city. Mayor John T. Monroe was full list of related programming. left to negotiate with the occupying War crept steadily upon Louisiana. On army; he counseled citizens to retreat to December 10, 1860, Governor Thomas their houses and, although defiant to Overton Moore called a special session of the end, prudently oversaw the city's the state legislature to debate secession. transfer. On January 23, 1861, delegates convened Monroe is one of many individuals in Baton Rouge; three days later Louisiana represented in Occupy New Orleans! became the sixth state-following South through correspondence, proclamation, Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama and portraiture and caricature. The stories of Georgia-to secede from the Union. On other well-known historical figures such March 21 it joined the Confederate States as President Abraham Lincoln, Major of America. General Benjamin F. Butler and William The sixth most populous city in the B. Mumford-hanged in June 1862 for nation and the undisputed queen of the tearing an American flag from its perch Deep South-more than six times larger above the US Mint, in defiance of the than regional rivals Mobile and Memphis- Union occupation-intersect with New Orleans met shifting circumstances those of lesser-known characters such with a mixture of anxiety and bravado. The as Henry Ross, Isabel Walton Waldo, board members of St. Anna's Asylum Isachar Zacharie and James Cross assessed potential supply shortages and Murphy. Display items range from the decided "to distribute the bread in smaller monumental-painter Mauritz Frederik quantities" to the destitute women and De Haas' panoramic Farragut's Fleet children in their care. Prices fluctuated but Passing the Forts below New Orleans-to business remained brisk in the offices of an intimate series of sketches by William local sugar and cotton factors. The French Waud, artist-correspondent for the Opera House enjoyed a triumphant second popular periodical Frank Leslie's season in a grand new edifice at the corner Illustrated Newspaper. An interactive of Bourbon and Toulouse streets. And timeline provides a nuts-and-bolts parents strove to provide a semblance of account of military operations across normalcy for their children: merchant the Gulf South, while other interactive Edward Murphy, an Irish immigrant, bought features further enhance the gallery a pony for his ten-year-old son, James. experience. This Harper's Weekly cartoon from January When change came, it came quickly. On 1863 depicts Union General Benjamin Butler in a none-too-flattering light as a menial laborer. April 18, 1862, mortar boats under the - Jessica Dorman 19 9.2 .11 89 THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION, GIFT OF CLAY WATSON, 1979.108 18 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES * Winter 2013-14 http://www.hnoc.org http://www.knowla.org/entry/536/

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