Notable New Orleanians: A Tricentennial Tribute

Department of the Gulf. Map No. 5. Approaches to New Orleans.
This plan was drawn to show the Confederate fortifications constructed in the brief interval between the outbreak of the Civil War and the fall of New Orleans from the sea in April 1862.
The works known as Camp Parapet ended up serving as a Union defense of New Orleans. The plan shows the routes of the two northerly railroads—the 1830s “New Orleans and
Nashville” road that never reached further than the swamps of St. Charles Parish; and the James Robb road “The New Orleans Jackson and Great Northern” that reached Jackson,
Mississippi before the war. The plan also shows the New Orleans Carrollton Railroad, now the St. Charles Streetcar line, and its continuance to the Jefferson and Lake Pontchartrain
Railroad that extend from Carrollton to Lake Pontchartrain. Shown as bare land are Audubon Park and the future campuses of Loyola and Tulane. Fortifications are also shown along
Bayou St. John and the Pontchartrain Railroad, now Elysian Fields Avenue. On the West Bank, fortifications defend the successful New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western railroad.
DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF. MAP NO. 5. APPROACHES TO NEW ORLEANS, PREPARED BY ORDER OF MAJ. GEN. N. P. BANKS, HENRY L. ABBOT, CAPT. AND CHIEF TOP. ENGRS. FEB. 14, 1863. SURVEYS UNDER DIRECTION OF CAPT. ABBOT BY MR. J. G.
OLTMANNS, ASST. USCS; MR. CHS. HOSMER, ASST. USCS; MR. T. W. ROBBINS, CIVIL ENGR.; MR. J. DEUTSCH, CIVIL ENGR.; ZIMPEL’S MAP OF NEW ORLEANS. SURVEYS BY W. H. WILDER.
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