Eight days in New-Orleans in February, 1847
by Albert James Pickett
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About this eBook
- Author
- Pickett, Albert James, 1810-1858
- Credits
- Produced by Alison Hadwin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F350.5: United States local history: Mississippi River and Valley. Middle West
- Subject
- Louisiana -- Social life and customs
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 32539
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32539
- Release Date
- May 26, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.EIGHT DAYS IN NEW-ORLEANS
- 2.NOTE.
- 3.CHAPTER I. — A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.—DESOTO'S EXPEDITION,—HIS DEATH,—THE FATE OF HIS PARTY, ETC.
- 4.CHAPTER II. — THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF NEW ORLEANS,—OF BILOXI,—NATCHEZ.—GOVERNOR IBERVILLE AND HIS SUCCESSOR.
- 5.CHAPTER III. — GEN. JACKSON.—THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.—THE POPULATION AT THAT DAY, AND OTHER THINGS ABOUT THE CRESCENT CITY.
- 6.CHAPTER IV. — NEW ORLEANS IN 1847.—ITS EXTENT AND SITUATION.—LAFAYETTE.—CARROLLTON, ETC.
- 7.CHAPTER V. — THE CATHEDRAL.—ORPHAN'S ASYLUM.—THE SISTERS OF CHARITY, ETC.
- 8.CHAPTER VI. — THE UNITED STATES BRANCH MINT.—THE WATER WORKS.—MARKETS, ETC.
- 9.CHAPTER VII. — OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS.—THE FRENCH THEATRE.—THE CARNIVAL.—THE ST. CHARLES, ETC.
- 10.CHAPTER VIII. — THE ROADS IN THE ENVIRONS.—THE TOWN OF CARROLLTON.—THE WOOD YARDS.—RIVER-BOTTOMS, ETC.
- 11.CHAPTER IX. — ORLEANS AT NIGHT.—THE COMMERCE OF THE PLACE.—THE TWENTY-SECOND OF FEBRUARY.
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