The New-Orleans riot
Subtitle: Its official history : the dispatches of Gens. Sheridan, Grant, and Baird -- the President answered
Contributors: Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: New York tribune?
Published: 1866
Place of publication: New York?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Riots; Campaign literature, 1866; Republican; History
Description: Official dispatches and other accounts and testimonials concerning the so-called "riot" of African Americans in New Orleans during one of the attempts to restore Louisiana to the Union by amending the state constitution. This account seems designed to present the available evidence and to set the record straight.
Notes: "It was no riot -- it was an absolute massacre by the police -- a murder perpetrated by the mayor."

Official dispatches and extracts from the New York tribune and the New York times.

Another issue published as the Tribune tracts, no. 1.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.