Battle of Liberty Place
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The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government on Septembe
The "Louisiana Outrages", as illustrated in Harper's Weekly, 1874
James Longstreet after the Civil War
"Battle at the Customs House", an engraving in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1874
Frederick Nash Ogden
James Longstreet
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James Longstreet was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse". He served under Lee as a corps
Battle of Liberty Place
…Kellogg finding sanctuary in the Custom House, which was federal property protected by a company of U.S. Army troops. When former Confederate general James Longstreet, aligned with Kellogg and other Radical Republicans and in command of the government forces, was shot, possibly by a spent bullet, he fell or was pulled…
James Longstreet
Sketch of Longstreet as a Confederate
Carte de Visite portrait of Longstreet
James Longstreet after the war