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Title

General Butler in New Orleans : history of the administration of the Department of the Gulf in the year 1862 : with an account of the capture of New Orleans, and a sketch of the previous career of the General, civil and military / by James Parton.

Author

Parton, James, 1822-1891.

Publication

New York : Mason Brothers, 5 & 7 Mercer Street ; Boston : Mason & Hamlin ; Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. ; London : D. Appleton & Co., 16 Little Britain, 1864.

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Additional Authors

• Alvord, Corydon A., approximately 1812-1874
• Brackett, Edward Augustus, 1818-1908
• Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
• Smith, Henry Wright, 1828-
• Hall, Henry Bryan, active 1850-1900
• Mason Brothers, publisher.
• Mason & Hamlin, publisher.
• J.B. Lippincott & Co., publisher.
• D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Description

[5], 8-661, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates : ports., plans; 21 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Butler, Benjamin F. 1818-1893
• African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans
• African American soldiers > Louisiana
• Enslaved persons > Louisiana
• New Orleans (La.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

• Publishers' advertisements – New York (State) – New York – 19th century.
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Release stamps (Provenance)
• Withdrawn copies (Provenance)

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Mason Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "C.A. Alvord, stereotyper and printer."--verso of title page.
• Frontispiece plates designed by E.A. Brackett and Thomas Nast, and engraved by H.W. Smith and H.B. Hall.
• First edition published in New York in 1863.
• Publisher's advertisement, p. [1] at end.

Provenance (note)

• with ink stamp on title page: "Sold by the Brooklyn Public Library" ; with the ink stamp on title page: "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

General Butler before the war -- In the Charleston Convention -- Massachusetts ready -- Annapolis -- Baltimore -- Fortress Monroe -- Great Bethel -- Consequences of Great Bethel -- Recall from Virginia -- Hatteras -- Recruiting for special service -- Ship Island -- Reduction of the forts -- The panic in New Orleans -- New Orleans will not surrender -- Landing in New Orleans -- Feeding and employing the poor -- The woman order -- Execution of Mumford -- General Butler and the foreign consuls -- Efforts towards restoration -- The effect in New Orleans of our losses in Virginia -- The sheep and the goats -- The confiscation act -- More of the iron hand -- The Negro question, first difficulties -- General Butler and General Phelps -- General Butler arms the free colored men, and finds work for the fugitive slaves -- Representative Negro anecdotes -- Military operations -- Routine of a day in New Orleans -- Recall -- At home -- Summary -- Appendix -- Index.

Call Number

Sc Rare 973.7-P (Parton, J. General Butler in New Orleans. 15th ed.)

OCLC

• 13055586
• 19022646
• NYPGR19022646-B

Author

Parton, James, 1822-1891.

Title

General Butler in New Orleans : history of the administration of the Department of the Gulf in the year 1862 : with an account of the capture of New Orleans, and a sketch of the previous career of the General, civil and military / by James Parton.

Imprint

New York : Mason Brothers, 5 & 7 Mercer Street ; Boston : Mason & Hamlin ; Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. ; London : D. Appleton & Co., 16 Little Britain, 1864.

Edition

Fifteenth edition.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 973.7-P (accession no. B527009) with ink stamp on title page: "Sold by the Brooklyn Public Library" ; with the ink stamp on title page: "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Mason Brothers, publisher.

Mason & Hamlin, publisher.

J.B. Lippincott & Co., publisher.

D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Alvord, Corydon A., approximately 1812-1874, printer, stereotyper.

Brackett, Edward Augustus, 1818-1908, illustrator.

Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, illustrator.

Smith, Henry Wright, 1828- engraver.

Hall, Henry Bryan, active 1850-1900, engraver.

Brooklyn Public Library, former owner.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 973.7-P (Parton, J. General Butler in New Orleans. 15th ed.)

IKE (Parton, J. General Butler in New Orleans)