Historic New Orleans Collection Exhibit Examines Occupation Of City During Civil War

By Paul Maassen

Published October 31, 2013 at 11:45 AM CDT

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Commodore Farragut’s Squadron and Captain Porter’s Mortar Fleet Entering the Mississippi from Harper’s Weekly; May 17, 1862; print; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1978.205";s:3:

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Confederate flag; 1864; silk, cotton, wood, ink; The Historic New Orleans Collection, gift of Clyde Cucullu, 1989.119.2

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Contrabands Coming into Camp in Consequence of the Proclamation from Harper’s Weekly; January 31, 1863; print [reproduction]; by Alfred Rudolph Waud, illustrator; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1979.133 ";

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Broadside Protesting General Order No. 28, the “Woman’s Order”; May 15, 1862; broadside by the United States Army, Department of the Gulf, author; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 99-276-RL

New Orleans, the largest and most prosperous city in the antebellum Deep South, spent the Civil War in fetters, occupied by Union troops in late April 1862.

The Historic New Orleans Collection's latest exhibit, "Occupy New Orleans! Voices from the Civil War", taps the experiences of ordinary men and women — Northerners and Southerners alike — during that time. WWNO's Paul Maassen talked with Mark Cave, The Historic New Orleans Collection's Senior Curator and Oral Historian, and asked him about this unique exhibit.