John Minor Wisdom collection, 1710-1960 | Louisiana Research Collection

By LAC Group

Printer-friendly | Contact Us About This Collection

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Biographical Note

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 13: General manuscripts and pamphlets, 1864 February 14-1877 November 30

Folder 1: Document 565, 1864 February 14

New Orleans. Petition of fourteen hotel, restaurant, and tavern owners asking Acting Mayor Captain Stephen Holt to allow their establishment to remain open until 12:00 rather than closing at the set time of 9:00 p.m.

Folder 2: Document 566, 1864 September 22

New Orleans. Jules Blane to Stephen Holt, Acting Mayor, sending New Orleans a portrait of S.J. Peters. Also two typescripts of the letter.

Folder 3: Document 567, 1865 March 20

Stafford County, England. Order for an inquiry into the sanity of Jane Bullock.

With wax seal.

Folder 4: Document 568, 1865 May 1

Greensboro, North Carolina. Pledge of of P.G.T. Beauregard not to take up arms against the United States, and is allowed to return home. Notations on verso regarding Beauregard's arrival at Montgomery, Mobile, and New Orleans. Signed William Hartsuff, Brevet Brigadier General, G.T. Beauregard, General, Confederate States of America, and N.P. Banks, Major General Commanding.

Folder 5: Document 569, 1865 May 22

New Orleans. Statement that P.G.T. Beauregard has arrived in New Orleans and will be allowed to remain. Signed Nathaniel P. Banks.

On verso permission granted to Beauregard and his two sons to go into the interior of Louisiana. Signed Nathaniel P. Banks, Major General Commanding.

Folder 6: Document 570, 1865 November 23

Acts passed by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana at the extra session held and begun in the City of New Orleans on the 23rd of November 1865. Publish by authority.

New Orleans. J.O. Nixon, State Printer. 1866. Wrappers. French and English on facing pages.

Folder 7: Document 571, 1866 February 17

Washington. Benjamin Butler to Colonel Wright Rives asking for the return of a book, Bishop's Criminal Law, that Butler had lent to the President Andrew Johnson.

Folder 8: Document 572, 1866 February 19

Mexico. M.B. daCunha Ruis, Director General of the Asiatic Colonization Company, to the Minister of War, naming the Minister to the Board of Directors of the company and requesting his assistance in the colonization program of Imperial Mexico.

Printed form letter signed. In Spanish.

Folder 9: Document 573, 1866 July

Report of George Sewall Boutwell for the Committee of the Judiciary investigating the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. United States House of Representative Report 104, 39th Congress, First Session.

Torn at the edges, disbound and missing final half page.

Folder 10: Document 574, 1866 December 27

New Orleans. James Longstreet to W. Collins in London, England, asking about the possibility of a loan. Not in Longstreet's hand.

Folder 11: Document 575, 1867 January 14

Boston. Benjamin Butler to the president of Harvard University praising Lieutenant Colonel Haswell C. Clark, a Harvard graduate who had served under Butler.

Folder 12: Document 576, 1867 February 19

Baltimore, Maryland. Sarah E. Mittenberger to her cousin Nat about selling some property in Philadelphia, holding a fair to help Southern widows, and visits by relatives and friends, including Amelia Gale Gorgas.

Folder 13: Document 577, 1867 March 23

New Orleans. Act incorporating the City of Carrollton.

Printed document.

Folder 14: Document 578, 1867 May 1

New Orleans. Receipt for $20 for work done in the house of Joshua Williams.

Folder 15: Document 579, 1867 June

Cutler, R. King and the New Orleans Custom House officials. Fraudulent and dishonest acts of W.P. Kellogg, Collector, his attempted defense, additional allegations, and facts. Perjurers, Smuglers and Kellogg associate. His accomplices and victims exposed.

Washington: McGill and Witherow, 1867. Water stained. Wrappers.

Folder 16: Document 580-585, 1867-1882

New Orleans. Shares of stock in the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company, issued at various dates, engraving of a horse drawn coach on the shares.

Partially printed.

Folder 17: Document 586, 1868

The Great Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson. A full and impartial report. The great speeches called forth by the extraordinary occasion will be treasured by the student and handed down to posterity as models of logic, rhetoric, and legal ingenuity whilst their eloquence will thrill unborn generations.

Philadelphia: Barclay and Company circa 1868. Illustrated. Wrappers.

Folder 18: Document 587, 1868 March 24

Ely, England. H. Goodwin, Dean to Dear Sir answering a query about the lecture referred in Sermons of 1855.

Folder 19: Document 588, 1868 March 25

Seymour Straight for Congress from the second Congressional District of Louisiana.

And photograph of Straight and his signature.

Wrappers.

Folder 20: Document 589, 1868 September 24

Louisiana Legislature. Report of the Joint Committee of the General Assembly of Louisiana on the conduct of the late election and the condition of peace and order in the state. (Mainly accounts of attacks on Blacks and Republicans in the various parishes.)

New Orleans: A.L. Lee, State Printer, 1868. Wrappers.

Folder 21: Document 590, 1869 January

United States Senate. Letter to the Secretary of War (J.M. Schofield), communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of 1868 December 14, reports in relation with recent disturbances in Louisiana. 40th Congress, 3rd session, Executive Document 15.

Disbound.

Folder 22: Document 591, 1869 January

Senate. Report of the Senate Committee on Elections in the case of W.B. Gray versus A.B. Bacon with an abstract of pleading and testimony. (Bacon was editor of the New Orleans Picayune).

New Orleans. A.L. Lee, State Printer, 1869. Wrappers.

Folder 23: Document 592, 1871

New Orleans Metropolitan Police. Annual report of the Board of the Metropolitan Police to the Governor of Louisiana for the year ending 1870 September 30.

New Orleans: A.L. Lee, State Printer. Fragment, pages 17-88 missing.

Folder 24: Document 593, 1872 October or November

Unknown place. List of the Republican candidates for national and Louisiana offices.

Printed document.

Folder 25: Document 594, 1872 October or November

Unknown place. List of the Republican candidates for Louisiana and national offices.

Printed document.

Folder 26: Document 595, 1873

Hunt, Randall: An appeal in behalf of Louisiana to the Senate of the United States for the fulfillment of the Constitutional guaranty to her of a Republican form of government as a State of the Union.

Wrapper and title missing.

Folder 27: Document 596, 1873

Unknown place. Manuscript by Charles Dudley Warner. From the Guilded Age.

Folder 28: Document 597, 1873 February

House of Representatives. Report of the committee to investigate the affair of the New Orleans Park Commissioners. Printed at the Republican Office, 1873. Stereotype edition.

Wrappers. Back cover missing.

Folder 29: Document 598, 1874 October or November

List of the Republican candidates for Louisiana and Assumption Parish offices, along with the recommendation on various state constitutional amendments.

Printed document.

Folder 30: Document 599, 1874

Zacharie, F.C. A review of the constitutional points in the Louisiana case. The law and the evidence. Attorney General Williams responsible for the usurpation. The ways out of it. New Orleans: Clark and Hofeline 1874.

Folder 31: Document 600, 1874-1877 April

Roster of the First Crescent City Regiment, Colonel W.T. Vaudry commanding to April 1877.

New Orleans: James Buckley, 1877. Illustrated. Wrappers.

Folder 32: Document 601, 1874 December 27-1878 April 2

New Orleans. Roster and Minute Book of the Robert E. Lee Guards, created "for the purpose of resisting by force or arms to all encroachment on our rights and liberties and for the protection of our homes and firesides". Some of the individuals listed, but not the unit took part in the 1874 September 14 revolt against the administration of Reconstruction Governor William P. Kellogg.

Folder 33: Document 602, 1875 March 20

New Orleans. Report of arrival and departures in the port of New Orleans. Listing name, tonnage, levee due paid and dates.

Folder 34: Document 603, 1876

White League in Louisiana examined by the lighted of the White League Testimony. (An attack upon the White League showing it a threat to Republican Government in Louisiana.)

Disbound.

Folder 35: Document 604, 1877

Inaugural message of His Excellency Stephen B. Packard, Governor, to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana.

New Orleans. Republican Office.

Folder 36: Document 605, 1877 January 19

Chaille, Satnford Emerson. Intimidation and the number of white and colored voters in Louisiana in 1876, as shown by statistical data derived from Republican official reports.

New Orleans, Picayune Office, 1877.

Folder 37: Document 606, 1877 June 28

Unknown place. Certificate of honor issued to M. Himman for his service in the 1st Crescent City Regiment and the part that he played in the "restoration of legal government" to the state of Louisiana.

Partially printed.

Folder 38: Document 607, 1877 November 30

Message of the Honorable Thomas E. Bayard of Delaware on the Senate of the United States in opposition to the admission of William Pitt Kellogg as a senator of Louisiana.

Washington.