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- GLC#
- GLC06232.08
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1866
- Title
- The New Orleans riot. Its official history.
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 24 p. : Height: 21.1 cm, Width: 14 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Opens with the statement "It was no Riot- It was an Absolute Massacre by the Police- A Murder Perpetrated by the Mayor." Includes dispatches pertaining to the riot from Albert Voorhies, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana; Andrew Herron, Louisiana Attorney General; President Andrew Johnson; Edward Davis Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General; Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War, and General Ulysses S. Grant, among others. Contains newspaper reports on the event from the New York Tribune and the New York Times. The final page contains a Tribune report stating "We must convince the SOUTH and the COPPERHEADS that revolutions go not backward- that Emancipation is an unchangeable fact- that the glorious CIVIL RIGHTS ACT can never be repealed." Several pages are detached from spine.
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