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At The Confederate Reunion And New Orleans Visit
The writer recounts a Confederate reunion visit to New Orleans. Highlights include breakfast at the French Market, tours of the Custom House and Jackson Square, a Columbia cruiser visit, a fire drill at Athletic Park, West End excursions on Lake Pontchartrain, above ground cemeteries with notable Johnston vaults, and the grand reunion parade. The piece ends reflecting on national unity and fading sectional bitterness.
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New Orleans
Custom House
Jackson Square
Information Bureau
Andrew Jackson
Uncle Sam
Customs Revenue
Dick Matthews
Mississippi
Columbia
United States
Mississippi River
Interpid
Hale
St. Louis
West End
Spanish Fort
Albert Sydney Johnston
Burnet
Texas
Royal and
W. L. Donnell
Louisiana
Grand Theater
City Park
Audubon Park
Esplanade
Canal Street
Stephen D. Lee
Gen. W. L. Cabell
Georgia
Grand Old Union