An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866

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DCCL Debates in the Conventionfor the Revision and Amendment of the Constitution of the Stateof Louisiana (New Orleans:W.R. Fish, 1864). GJR GrandJury Report, and the Evidence Taken by Them in Reference to the Great Riot in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 30, 1866 (New Orleans: Daily Crescent Office, [1866]). HSCR House Report No. 16: Report of the Select Committee on New Orleans Riots, 39th Cong., 2d sess. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1867; rpr. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1971). LC Library of Congress, Washington,D.C. MCR Executive Documents No. 68:New Orleans Riots, 39th Cong., 2d sess. (Washington, D.C.:U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866). NA National Archives, Washington, D.C. NYHS New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y. OR War of the Rebellion:A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,70 vols in 127 and index. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. ALlbreviaiions Abbreviations RG Record Group SHC Southern Historical Collection, Universityof North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. xvi An Absolute Massacre Area of the riot, showing landmarks and locations of important events. Adapted from map of New Orleans (ca.. 1860) by S. AugustusMitchell ...