7.13 d.-f. Fall of New Orleans and Federal Occupation
Federal forces occupied New Orleans, a strategic city at the mouth of the Mississippi River, from 1862 until the end of Reconstruction.
Antebellum Period
Antebellum Period Index
History
Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop
Felipe Enrique Neri, although deceptive about his own lineage, nevertheless played an important role in the settlement of the Ouachita Valley in northeast Louisiana.
Peoples of Louisiana
Filipinos
Louisiana is home to the earliest Filipino American community in the United States.
Art
Florville Foy
Florville Foy, a free man of color, was a marble cutter, sculptor, and proprietor of one of the most successful marble yards in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
History
Fort Miro
Located on the site of present-day Monroe, Louisiana, Fort Miro was a late eighteenth-century Spanish outpost that served the Ouachita River valley.
Art
Francisco Bernard
Like many painters of his time, Francisco Bernard spent the winters in New Orleans and traveled as an itinerant portrait painter during the summer.
Art
Francois Jacques Fleischbein
Though he painted a variety of subjects, German-born painter François Jacques Fleischbein is best known as portraitist who worked in New Orleans between 1834 and 1868.
Business & Industry
Francois Seignouret
Francois Seignouret, a financially successful businessman and investor, became known as one of the greatest cabinetmakers in New Orleans, though there is no evidence that he ever made furniture with his own hands.
Music
François-Michel Samuel Snaër
Samuel Snaer was a respected composer and musician in nineteenth century New Orleans.
Government, Politics & Law
Frank A. Monroe
Frank Adair Monroe served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1914 to 1922.
Art
Free Black Artists in Antebellum New Orleans
New Orleans' unique three-tiered racial system which accepted free people of color as a separate caste from enslaved blacks provided a unique opportunity for free black artists.
History
Free People of Color
Free people of color constituted a diverse segment of Louisiana’s population and included people that were born free or enslaved, were of African or mixed racial ancestry, and were French- or English-speaking
