Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Board of RegentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Report of the Board of Regents
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in science
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Reports for 1884-1886/87 issued in 2 pts., pt. 2 being the Report of the National Museum.
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in science
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
House documents
Author: Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, to the Secretary of War, for the Year
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Bibliography and Index of the Publications of the United States Geological Survey with the Laws Governing Their Printing and Distribution
Author: Philip Creveling WarmanPublisher:
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Category : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Ruined by This Miserable War
Author: Carl A. BrasseauxPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572339217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In March 1863, after Northern general Benjamin F. Butler demanded the recall of the French consul-general, an unabashed Confederate sympathizer, from Union-occupied New Orleans, Charles Prosper Fauconnet assumed the duties of acting consul. A seasoned diplomat who had risen slowly through the ranks in Latin America and the United States, Fauconnet quickly and effectively repaired the rift between local French and American authorities while striving valiantly to safeguard the interests of his government and the French nationals who found themselves literally and figuratively caught in the crossfire. From 1863 through 1868, Fauconnet maintained a copybook of his official correspondence with the French Ministry of State. These confidential dispatches, collected for the first time in this valuable volume, provide not only a panoramic view of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Gulf Coast but also new and important information on the transnational aspects of America’s Civil War. Eager to explain complicated issues to a French government concerned over the fate of one of its former territories, Fauconnet painstakingly laid out what was happening in New Orleans by drawing on war news, newspaper columns, and summaries of speeches and promises of Union commanding officers. His commentary peeled away the layers of contradiction and moral dilemmas that confronted citizens of Southern, Northern, and French heritages during the war years and early postwar period. Among the topics he considered were whether emancipated slaves deserved the same rights as naturalized citizens, the state of the cotton market, and the harassment of French-speaking immigrants by both Union and Confederate authorities. Informative and detailed, Fauconnet’s communications became increasingly acerbic and uneasy as he documented and explained the Civil War to officials in his faraway homeland. Breathtaking in its geographic scope and topical breadth, thanks in part to the acute observational and reporting skills of its author, Fauconnet’s correspondence offers a unique and thoroughly fascinating francophone perspective on New Orleans during some of the most tumultuous years in U.S. history. CARL BRASSEAUX is the author of over thirty books related to the French presence in the Gulf Coast, including Refuge for All Ages: Immigration in Louisiana History; French Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana; and Stir the Pot: The History of Cajun Cuisine. Until his recent retirement, he was director of the Center for Louisiana Studies and professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. KATHERINE CARMINES MOONEY, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, is a specialist in nineteenth-century history. Her research includes the history of thoroughbred horse-racing culture from 1820 to 1910.
Author: John Howard Hickcox