Jean Lafitte Historic Resource Study (Chalmette Unit)

1. C. Pollock, February 18, 1833. New Orleans Notarial Archives (NONA), New Orleans, Louisiana.

2. D'Hemecourt's 1837 plan of St. Amand Plantation. NONA.

3. C.E. Fortier, November 11, 1861. NONA.

4. Captain Charles Barnard to Colonel Charles H. Tompkins, April 28, 1868. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 692; and, Second Lieutenant Isaac O. Shelby to Quartermaster General, May 27, 1876. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette Folio 109, vol. 12.

5. Barnard to Tompkins, April 28, 1868. NA, RG 92.

6. Shelby to Quartermaster General, May 27, 1876. NA, RG 92.

7. Report of the Secretary of War, 1868 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), p. 955.

8. Barnard to Tompkins, April 28, 1868. NA, RG 92.

9. Report of the Secretary of War, 1868, p. 955-56.

10. "Report of an Inspection Made of Cemeterial Operations at New Orleans, Louisiana," May 17, 1867. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 281.

11. Larigan to Barnard, May 21, 1867. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette. File 977/1867.

12. Ibid.

13. Barnard to Major Charles G. Sawtelle, June 15, 1867. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File B1264.

14. Larigan to Barnard, July 23, 1867. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, File A569.

15. United States Military Reservations, National Cemeteries and Military Parks (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910), p. 133.

16. Barnard to Tompkins, April 28, 1868. NA, RG 92.

17. Ibid. By 1873 the number of interments had increased to 11,938 (6,658 known remains and 5,280 unknown). Report of the Secretary of War, 1873 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873), p. 201.

18. Report of the Secretary of War 1870 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1870), p. 956.

19. Barnard to Tompkins, May 18, 1868. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries.

20. Lieutenant Colonel James A. Ekin to Major General John M. Schofield, December 7, 1868. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, File B994.

21. U. S. Congress. Senate. Report of the Inspector of National Cemeteries. Ex. Doc. No. 62. 41 Cong., 2 sess., 1870, pp. 51-52.

22. Deputy Quartermaster General to Tompkins, February 1, 1869. NA, RG 92. Entry 1039. Press copies of "Miscellaneous" Letters Sent Relating to Barracks and Quarters. Sept. 1867-Apr. 1869. 3 vols., III, 318; Deputy Quartermaster General to Brevet Brigadier General B. Myers (?), April 20, 1869, in ibid., p. 539.

23. U. S. Congress. Senate, Report of the Inspector of National Cemeteries. Ex. Doc. No. 79. 42 Cong., 2 Sess., 1872, pp. 61-62.

24. W. H. Bell "Plan of Chalmette National Cemetery," March 19, 1872. Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library,

25. Major Judson D. Bingham to Captain William B. Hughes, June 6, 1873. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, File 1110.

26. H. Bonzano to Alonzo Tofts, April 21, 1876. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 4210.

27. Shelby to Quartermaster General, May 27, 1876. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette.

28. Carroll to Quartermaster General, June 30, 1873. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, File 1918.

29. Contract with Burton and Seymour, August 26, 1873. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, Contract File.

30. Gall to Major General Montgomery C. Meigs, October 4, 1873. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette.

31. Carroll to Captain John G. Leefe, October 22, 1873. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 4022.

32. Gall to Colonel Andrew Jackson McGonnigle, March 7, 1874. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette.

33. U. S. Congress. Senate, Report of the Inspector of National Cemeteries. Ex. Doc. No. 29, 43 Cong., 2 sess., 1874, pp. 74-75.

34. John M. Poukin to Leefe, n.d. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 1865. During this period the Timothy O. Howe camp of the G.A.R. also existed, but no evidence has been located to indicate its role, if any, in the erection of the monument. Other G. A. R. posts were later established in New Orleans.

35. Carroll to Lieutenant F. Bacon, November 17, 1875. NA, RG 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 2792.

36. Henry W. Fowler to William Wright, August 2, 1877. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette; Inspection of Chalmette National Cemetery, February 3, 1882. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 302; James S. Zacharie, New Orleans Guide (New Orleans: F. F. Hansell and Brothers, Ltd., 1893), p. 138.

37. "Annual Report of the Conditions, Work done, Improvements made at Chalmette National Cemetery for the fiscal year ending 30th June 1874." NA, RG 92, General Correspondence. National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette.

38. Report of the Secretary of War, 1874. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874), p. 212.

39. Contract between Quartermaster General and James Freret, August 11, 1880. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 1117.

40. Report of the Secretary of War, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881), p. 150

41. "Specifications for Superintendent's Lodge at Chalmette National Cemetery," ca, 1880. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence Specifications. Complete specifications for the lodge appear in Appendix B.

42. "Lieutenant-Colonel O. A. Mack," Army and Navy Journal, XII, No. 35 (April 10, 1875), p. 555.

43. Contract between Quartermaster General and Charles Hense, February 4, 1879. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, File 199.

44. "Chalmette National Cemetery 1st Class, Inspected, February 3, 1882". NA, RG 92, General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 302.

45. Lieutenant Colonel Richard N. Batchelder to Quartermaster General, September 25, 1883. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, 906 card.

46. "Report of Inspection of National Cemetery at Chalmette, Louisiana, April 18, 1884." NA, RG. 92. General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Inspection Department File.

47. Ibid.

48. Unidentified note, July 19, 1884. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette Note 1884.

49. Charles A. Thiel to Quartermaster General Samuel B. Holabird, May 2, 1884. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette.

50. Holabird to Scully, June 12, 1884. NA, RG 92. General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette.

51. U.S. Congress. Senate. In the Senate of the United States. Report No. 1272, 49 Cong. 1 sess., June 2, 1886.

52. Contract with Robert McNamara, November 12, 1886. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Contracts File 2546.

53. U.S. Congress. House. New Roadway to Chalmette La., National Cemetery. H. Doc. No. 221, 59 Cong., 1 sess., December 15, 1905.

54. Owen to Batchelder, April 23, 1886. NA, RG 92, National and Post Cemeteries, File 795.

55. Report of the Secretary of War, 1888 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888), p. 588.

56. Gilliss to Quartermaster of the Army, November 29, 1889. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette.

57. Edward M. Main to Major James W. Scully, February 18, 1890. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette.

58. Veazly to Secretary of War Redfield Proctor, May 19, 1891. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries.

59. Report of the Secretary of War, 1892 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892), pp. 365, 484.

60. Report of the Secretary of War, 1893 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893), p. 324.

61. The Daily Picayune, May 31, 1893.

62. The Daily Picayune, June 16, 1894.

63. Captain Evan H. Humphrey to Superintendent, Chalmette National Cemetery, March 1, 1909. NA, RG 92, General Correspondence, National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 252830; and, Report of the Secretary of War, 1897 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1897).

64. Report of the Secretary of War, 1911 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912), p. 265.

65. Report of the Secretary of War, 1915 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1916), p. 332.

66. Report of the Secretary of War, 1916 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917), p. 332; and Report of the Secretary of War, 1917 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918), p. 288.

67. U. S. Congress. House. Right of Way Through Chalmette National Cemetery, H. Report No. 1159, 70 Cong. 1 sess., 1928; U. S. Congress. House. Chalmette National Cemetery, La., Communication of the President of the United States Transmitting Supplemental Estimate of Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1929, For the War Department, Amounting to $32,000 for Chalmette National Cemetery, La., H. Doc. No. 156, 70 Cong., 1 sess., 1928.