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The New Orleans massacre was a continuation of a longer shooting war over slavery (beginning with Bleeding Kansas in 1859), of which the 1861–1865 hostilities were merely the largest part. [10] More than half of the whites were Confederate veterans and nearly half of the Black Americans were veterans of the Union army.
Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum – Massacre of the Innocents at New Orleans, July 30, 1866 (generally known simply as Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum) is a political cartoon by the 19th-century American artist Thomas Nast that depicts U.S. president Andrew Johnson as Emperor Nero at an ancient Roman arena, "figuratively fiddling with the...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:06, 10 July 2023: 4,000 × 2,839 (17.68 MB): Jengod: Uploaded a work by Thomas Nast from Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum Alternate Title Andrew Johnson Artist Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 Sitter Andrew Johnson, 29 Dec 1808 - 31 Jul 1875 Date 1867 Type Print Medium Wood engraving on paper Dimensions 34.8cm x 51.5cm (13 11/16" x 20 1/4 ...
The loss of life in New Orleans occurred around 3:15 a.m. local time on New Year’s Day when a man driving a pickup truck plowed down Bourbon Street intentionally attacking pedestrians.
New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street devolved into a grisly crime scene just hours into the new year as a driver plowed a three-ton pickup through crowds of holiday revelers, killing at least 14 ...
The New Year celebrations in the city included parties on Bourbon Street and a parade for the 2025 Sugar Bowl, one of New Orleans's major sporting events, which was scheduled to take place on the night of January 1 at Caesars Superdome between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Law enforcement had increased security in ...
63-year-old New Orleans native identified as victim. Friday 3 January 2025 19:50, Rhian Lubin. A 63-year-old New Orleans native has been identified as one of the victims of the New Year’s Day ...
Thomas Nast illustration of the New Orleans massacre of 1866. The Freedmen massacres were a series of attacks on African-Americans which occurred in the states of the former Confederacy during Reconstruction, in the aftermath of the American Civil War.