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Reconstruction in Louisiana: The Battle of Liberty Place: Resources

Resources for more reading

This page offers resources which are available either online, or from this library. Views of the battle today are dramatically different than during most of the city's history.

Books in the library

New Orleans after the Civil War : race, politics, and a new birth of freedom / Justin A. Nystrom

Uncivil war : five New Orleans street battles and the rise and fall of radical Reconstruction / James K. Hogue

Links

The Battle of Liberty Place from 64Parishes

Battle of New Orleans for Freedom, September 14, 1874: map

from Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc

from Historic New Orleans Collection

Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1874 via HathiTrust

Old Newspaper Stories

Anniversary of Battle
The Times Picayune, September 11, 1932, page B-two
Anniversary of Battle, part two
The Times Picayune, September 11, 1932, page B-six
Mayor Appoints Commission to Maintain Shaft
The Times Picayune, September 11, 1932, page eleven
Grant Backs Kellogg
The Times Picayune, September 19, 1967