This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Descriptive Baton Rouge and Mississippi River Voyage 1810
An extensive 1810 travel account by Os Schultz reviews Baton Rouge as a Spanish river fort with a six hundred man garrison, the Bayous Manehac and Placquemine, and nearby Opelousas and Atacapas settlements. It contrasts Mississippi and Ohio navigation, notes wildlife scarcity, fogs, river dangers, and Puerto Mobile tensions between U.S. forces and Spanish authorities, including Gaines and Perez, in late 1810.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Mississippi
New-Ofrieans
Os Schultz
Barr and Co
Arkansas
Bayou Mandhae
Iberville
Mobile Bay
West Florida
New Orleans
Bayou Manehac
Gulf
Opelousas
Vermilion Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Manchac
la Fourche
Bayou la Fourche
Ia Pourche
Atacapas
Chitamaches
la Salle
Pirit
Cantrell’s
Bénva Gara
Rouge
Red Church
Ohio
Natchez
Mississippi River
Burt
Mobile
Sparks
Army of
VA. States
Mobille
United States
Luckett
Army of the
Pendleton Gaines
Fort Charlotte
Cayetano Perez
Edmund Pendleton Gaines
Gaines
Kemper
Kennedy
Kemper and Co
United States Artillery