Letter from Lieutenant Colonel O.W. Lull to General Benjamin Butler

ID: 5448 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, 99-54-L.2.

This file appears in: Fort Macomb

Handwritten list in cursive on yellowed paper, including different guns

Includes a list of supplies at Fort Macomb when it was overtaken by Lull and his troops in May 1862.

This file appears in: Fort Macomb

Fort Macomb

By The New Orleans Historical Team & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

Constructed in 1822 under the direction of architect Simon Bernard, Fort Wood was thought to be impregnable to enemy troops attacking in the narrow straits of lakes Borgne and St. Catherine. In 1851,…