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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06232.08 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | The New Orleans riot. Its official history. |
| Date | 1866 |
| Document Type | Pamphlet |
| Content Description | 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revolutions go not backward- that Emancipation is an unchangeable fact- that the glorious CIVIL RIGHTS ACT can never be repealed."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. |
| Subjects | Reconstruction African American History Slavery Emancipation Emancipation Proclamation Mobs and Riots Government and Civics Death Massacre President Union General Journalism Copperheads |
| People | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885) Herron, Andrew (fl. 1866) Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875) Stanton, E. M. (Edwin McMasters) (1814-1869) Townsend, Edward Davis (1817-1893) Voorhies, Albert (fl. 1860-1882) |
| Place written | s.l. |
| Theme | Reconstruction; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Additional Information | The New Orleans riot took place 30 July 1866 when African Americans congregated to support radical Republicans who met to discuss the Black Codes. Both blacks and whites were killed. Often referred to as the "New Orleans massacre," reports indicate that many supporters and members of the convention were killed by local police. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |