New Orleans Committee of Subsistence records, 1862 May-June.

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New Orleans Committee of Subsistence records, 1862 May-June.

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This collection consists of records of the New Orleans Committee of Subsistence, during the early months of the Federal occupation of New Orleans in the Civil War. Included are handwritten correspondence, charters and agreements with steamboat captains, bills of lading, a photograph identified as William Freret, receipts and other financial documents concerning emergency wartime river shipments of food to New Orleans.

1.5 linear feet (1 flat box)

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8121838

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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New Orleans Committee of Subsistence.

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The New Orleans Committee of Subsistence, chaired by former New Orleans mayor William Freret, was appointed by U. S. General Benjamin Butler in May 1862, when Federal troops occupied New Orleans. Food was scarce and costly, and these problems had been intensified by a Union blockade, diminishing value of Confederate currency, and the disintegration of normal commerce. The Committee existed only a few months, but it did provide some temporary humanitarian relief. Items listed in shipping document...

Freret, William, 1804-1864

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Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...

A.D. Grieff and Co. (New Orleans, La.)

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