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Reconstruction in Louisiana: The New Orleans Massacre of 1866: Resources

House Report

Report of the Select committee on the New Orleans Riots.  United States Congress. House. Select Committee On The New Orleans Riots, Eliot, T. D., Shellabarger, S., Boyer, B. M. & United States Congress ). House. (1867) Report of the Select committee on the New Orleans Riots. Washington, Gov't print. off.

Witness Interview

 Illustration showing a commission of four white men questioning a black witness following the Mechanics’ Institute massacre of July 30, 1866.Courtesy Historic New Orleans Collection

Article links

New Orleans Massacre (1866) from Blackpast.org

The New Orleans Riot of 1866, Reconsidered  Donald E. Reynolds, Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter, 1964), pp. 5-27

Old Newspaper stories

The Wounded

 Illustration showing interior of the Marine Hospital with three rows of beds occupied by American Americans injured in the Mechanics’ Institute massacre of July 30, 1866.Courtesy Historic New Orleans Collection