Category: Louisiana

• New Orleans when it wasn’t easy

  “…respectfully request for a pardon of six hours a day for the purpose of exercising in New Orleans” wrote Lt Henry M McClendon as a prisoner in the U. S. Customs House in New Orleans. A neighbor to my 2xgreatgrandUncle George M. Hill. both men had been captured, Henry on Nov 22, 1863 at Camp…

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  March 16, 2024

  Civil War, Confederacy, DeadAncestors, Genealogy, Louisiana, Museums, Solo Travel USA, Travel, Walking

  #texasancestors, Civil War, Confederate museum new orleans, Elisibeth Ney, new orleans cemeteries, U.S. Custom House New Orleans

• A Diet of Rats and Mules

  “Rats, of which there were plenty about the deserted camps, were also caught by many officers and men, and were found to be quite a luxury–superior, in the opinion of those who eat them, to spring chicken,” wrote Howard C Wright, a New Orleans newspaperman and current soldier in the 30th Louisiana Infantry a couple…

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  March 13, 2024

  Civil War, Coffee, Confederacy, DeadAncestors, Genealogy, History, Louisiana, Military, Solo Travel USA, Texas

  #texasancestors, Civil War, Confederacy, Morning Call Coffee Stand, Port Hudson State Historic Site, solotravel