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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06107.19 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Union Occupation Newspapers |
| Title | News-Letter Extra |
| Date | 2 May 1862 |
| Document Type | Broadside |
| Content Description | Union Soldiers' newspaper printing correspondence between Commodore David G. Farragut and the Mayor of New Orleans (it is unclear which mayor, there were six in 1862). Copied from the "New Orleans Crescent" of 29 April 1862. Also includes a column titled "Eight Great Blunders" copied from the "Religious Herald," a Baptist newspaper out of Richmond, Virginia. Lists eight greatest blunders of the Confederacy, including #2: "In believing that there would be a divided North, and an apathetic Federal Government." List of the deaths of six men in the 13th Connecticut regiment since leaving New York. Says a tent was donated by the people of New Haven, Connecticut and that a library of 270 volumes can found under its canopy. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Navy Union General Religion Confederate States of America Death Library Military Camp |
| Place written | Ship Island, Mississippi |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Naval & Maritime |
| Sub-collection | American Civil War Newspapers and Magazines |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |