Today’s post is written by Stephanie Stegman, the special media projects volunteer at the National Archives at Fort Worth. This is the third post in a three-part series. (If you missed them, follow these links to the first and second posts.) Cargo – it was the main business of the New Orleans Custom House. After the [...]
Posted by stegman on May 3, 2012, under Civil Records, Digital Projects, NARA beyond DC/MD.
Tags: Civil War, Custom House, Lincoln, Port of New Orleans, Slave Manifest, slavery, Stephanie Stegman Comments: 2
Today’s post is written by Stephanie Stegman, the special media projects volunteer at the National Archives at Fort Worth. This is the second post in a three-part series. (If you missed it, the first post can be found here.) Today’s topic is paperwork. Paperwork was a vital part of daily life at the New Orleans Custom [...]
Posted by stegman on April 26, 2012, under Civil Records, Digital Projects, NARA beyond DC/MD.
Tags: Collection District of New Orleans, Confederacy, cotton, Custom House, District of Mississippi, Francis Hanson Hatch, Hore Browse Trist, Louisiana, Marine Hospital Fund, Mississippi River, New Orleans, Port of New Orleans, RG 36, secession, Stephanie Stegman, Thomas Jefferson, tobacco Comments: none
Today’s post is written by Stephanie Stegman, the special media projects volunteer at the National Archives at Fort Worth. This is the first post in a three-part series. Electoral projections are a popular topic these days, and everyone has an opinion. In July 1860, two engineers in Louisiana exchanged their predictions on the upcoming presidential [...]
Posted by stegman on April 19, 2012, under Civil Records, Digital Projects, NARA beyond DC/MD.
Tags: Army, Baton Rouge, Board of Public Works, Canal Street, Civil War, Confederate States Army, Custom House, Department of War, Hurricane Katrina, Johnson Kelly Duncan, Mississippi River, New Orleans, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Presidential election, RG 36, Stephanie Stegman, Thomas K. Wharton, United States Military Academy, West Point Comments: 4
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