Index to
Social Life In Old New Orleans
Being Recollections of my Girlhood
by
Eliza Ripley
New York and London, D. Appleton and Company, 1912
Index prepared by Rita Curry-Pittman, Copyright 2004
Many chapters of this book first appeared as stories in the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Born on February 1, 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky as Eliza Moore Chinn, Mrs. Ripley was the daughter of Judge Richard Henry Chinn and Betsy Holmes. She wed her first husband, James A. McHatton of Kentucky, in 1852 and for ten years they lived at Arlington Plantation, a few miles below Baton Rouge. Her second marriage in 1873 was to Dwight Ripley of Norwich, Connecticut. She died one day after “Negotiations for publication of this work were completed.” For more details see, A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. II, p 686.
Memoirs of her Civil War experiences are recorded in her 1889 publication, From Flag to Flag. The University of North Carolina has this book and a number of other out-of-print books online at http://docsouth.unc.edu .
Within the first pages I realized this book should have an index and began making notes. Eliza Chinn Ripley recorded so many useful pieces of information, not only about herself and her immediate family but, her neighbors in Baton Rouge and in New Orleans, about long forgotten social habits, items, songs, and garments used then but unknown to modern man.
She wrote in a style that is as comfortable to readers today as any modern text and kept my interest flowing to the next pages before I had read that far.
My instincts as a mother, wife, seamstress, embroiderer, textile conservationist, avid cook, genealogist, bird watcher, boating enthusiast, lover of history, every essence of who and what I am all told me that anyone from Louisiana, anyone who loves history, any woman who likes to know how other women lived in a different lifetime, all would enjoy the book.
While preparing this index, I down-loaded and began reading her other book, “From Flag to Flag,” and found myself all the more mesmerized by her true stories of exactly what it was like for families living through the Civil War. I can easily imagine what it is like to have twenty-five guests in my home for a few hours but, to have several hundred escape the battle in Baton Rouge and alight on your doorstep for days and leave three women behind for several weeks more because the excitement brought on three deliveries of newborns, I cannot imagine.
INDEX – Women in this index are listed by both maiden and married names.
acid skin treatment 110
Adams, Mrs. R. W. nee Caroline Deslonde 117
actor and actress 319
admission of guilt 18, 19
ailment 17
treatments 17
Aime, Felicie 185, 186, 188
Oriental garden with riverlet 188
wed Alfred Roman 190
Aime, Gabriel 187, 190
Aime, Valcour 179, 180, 186, 190
plantation 184, 185, 186
close relationship to Roman family 187
governess from New England 187, 188, 265
Tante Lise 184
alack-a-day 6, 30
Allain, Celeste 179
Allain, SosthPne 179
almond hulls 39
Alpaca 2
Alroy, Honorable Mr. 196
alum 39
ambulance 331
Amenaide 155
American stagecoach 137, 138
American style 289
anatomy 18
Anderson, Peter 104
Angélina, Mme, dance teacher on Royal 150, 151
architecture 2
Arlington Plantation 256
slid into the Mississippi river 211, 262
Armant, Ed (composer) 149
Armory Hall 5
Arpin, Mme Caroline 149
arranged marriage 180
art 11
artist 303
sketching not allowed 317
Ascension Parish 77
Ashburton, Lord (of London) 169
Astor House, NY 85
attorney 162
autumn 22
Avery, Judge 199
awning 186
Babcock, Mr. William of New York 89
Babcock, Mrs. nee Maria Shute 89
backstitch described 37
baize bag 12
baking 39
baggage on ship 132
baggage on stagecoach 138
balcony 186
ball guests 260
ballad 154
Baltimore oriole 18
bananas 44
bandoline 111
banquette 81
barPge 59
Barriere’s on Royal street 58, 59
Baronne street 161
Barracks, the (in Baton Rouge) 251, 299, 301
Barataria Canal 318
(NOTE also known as Company Canal, Peoples' Canal, and Westwego Canal)
Basin street 324
basket for cards 50, 56
basket, Indian 315
bath, Saturday night 212
bathing suits (in 1849) 142
Baton Rouge 73, 74, 178, 251, 280, 299, 321
Battle of Baton Rouge 302
Battle of the River Rasin 54
Battle of New Orleans 297
Bayou Fordoche 99, 254
Bayou Lafourche 202
Bayou Road bridge 313
Bayou Sara Hotel 94, 97
Bayou St. John 63
Bayou Téte 254
bead & shell shop 324
Beauregard, Mrs. (General) nee Mathilde Deslonde 117
beaux 52, 55, 56, 65, 67, 101, 119, 143, 165
bed, tester or four-poster 38
behavior of children 1
Bein, Doctor 84
Bein, Susanna 84
Beins, the 29
Belize, the 9
Bell, Mr., cashier 3
Belle Creole, La, steamship, river boat, coast packer 94, 159, 173, 179, 182, 183, 189, 190, 298
Captain Ure 182, 183
From http://www.steamboats.org Name: BELLE CREOLE Type: Sidewheel Wooden hull packet Size:447 tons Launched: 1845, Cincinnati, Oh. Destroyed: 1852, off the lists Area: Miss. R., New Orleans - Vicksburg. Captains: 1846, Champromere ; 1850, J. M. White Comments: 1849, Nov. 16, near N. O., burst boiler seam. Killed 5 Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1884 - 1994 Way's Packet Directory 1848-1994 : Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America by Frederick, Jr. Way (Compiler), Frederick Packet dire Way, Joseph W. Rutter
Belle Key (steamboat) 328, 329
Belle of the West, the steamship 130
belles 101, 119
descended upon New Orleans 162
Benjamin, J. P., U. S. Senator 250, 254, 288
Benjamin, Messrs 199
bergamot, essence of 112
Bienvenue family 307
bier, “for we stand beside the bier of a lifelong friend” (coffin stand) 191
biology 18
bird store 4
birds,
Baltimore Oriole 18
English sparrows 94
mocking 94
Bishop/Doctor Hawks, 9
rector of Christ Church
blacksmith on Camp 62
blank book and stationary shop 288
blind 61
blockade running 288
Blondeau, Henriette 68, 111
Bloomfield, Major & Mrs. 288
blue grass region, Kentucky 138
boarding house 162
boat, steamer/steamship 22, 86, 94, 130, 328
bombazine 2
bonbons 52
Bonfords, the 117
Bonnecage, Mr. 254
Bonnecaze family (of Baton Rouge) 178
bonnet 61, 84
the missing red 216-244
of corn shucks 252
books:
Aunt Patsy’s Scrap Bag 328
Amy Herbert 16, 20
Essay on Man 18
Guy Mannering 15
Jane Eyre 19,
banned 20
Keith’s Evidences of Phophecy 16
Lamton Parsonage 16
Quentin Durward 15
books,
for construction of flowers 324
reading goody-goody 16
restricted reading 19
written “by a woman so stupid” 328
boot (or rumble of a stagecoach) 138
borrowing 44
botany 18
Boudousquie, Anais 150
Boudford house, the 325
bouquet 80
bow, India style 12
box at the opera, cost of 67
boxes at the opera 65
Boyer, Mme. 10, 150
physical description of 11
boys, sons of guests, deface furniture and mantel 204
Brackenridge, Nancy to wed Aleck 256
Brander, Mr. (merchant) 167
Brander, Caledonia wed Mr. Sager an Engineer 167
Brander, Virginia wed Ed Matthews of New York 167
brandy 52
Breckinridge family 246
Breckinridge, General 128, 288, 302
in Havana 202
Breckinridge, Mrs. 202
related by marriage to the author 202
Breedlove(s), the 36
Brewer, Mrs. 287, 290, 291, 292, 294
Briant, Philoméne 149
bric-a-brac 40, 146
brick dust 40
Bringier, Myrtle wed Gen. Dick Taylor 118, 144
Brooklyn, NY 120
Brooks, Mme Arraline 5
brought his own sheets 200-201
Brown, John 191
brown sugar coffee 25
brown sugar, hogsheads of 252
Brusle landing 182
Buckner, Ellen (Mrs. James B. Eustis) 168
Buckner, H. S. 168
Buckner, Mme. 171
buckram, stocks made of 53, 54
Bullitt, Alec 170
Bullitt, Cuthbert 134, 295
Bullitt, Cuthbert, Mr. & Mrs. 66
Bullitt, Mrs. Cuthbert nee Eliza White 169
Bunker Hill, model of 40
buffet 52
Burke, Glendy 171, 195
Butler in New Orleans 207, 265
butler’s pantry 38
buttermilk, sour 114
Byrne, Sara 149
Byron (music composer) 154
Cajin (sic) settlements 253
cake, pink cocoanut 39
cake maker from Woodville 98
California gold mines 1
calls, social 41
calling cards 50, 51, 56, 166
calling on 56
Camera Lucinda 137
Cammack, A. B. 328
Cammack, Mrs. Charles nee Sarah Smith 168
Camp, Brother (preacher) 205
Camp street 1, 2, 5, 9, 35, 62, 151, 161, 319
doctors & lawyers offices on 160
in 1840 159
men’s clothing store 1
neutral ground, condition of 2, 35, 166
private homes on 160
retail stores not on 160
shopping region moved to 58
cancer 109
candelabra 36
fancy girandole 36
candle,
activities by 36
no shades on 36
cane or walking stick 51, 52
cane juice, boiling 206
canvas work 136
cap 82, 83, 84
Captain’s uniform 270
capture of the Harriet Lane, the 126
card game 175
cardinals (women’s accessory item) 60
Carneal, Sally wed Glendy Burke 171
Carondelet street 165, 327
Carpet slippers 174
carpets,
cleaning of 35
rugs in one piece 35
stored in the garret 35
strewn with tobacco leaves 35
three-ply 32
carriage or coach 68, 95
Carrollton Garden 63
Carrollton Hotel 64
Casimir, Mme on St. Anne street 68
cataracts 61
catarral trouble (sniffles) 174
caterers, none 42, 98
Cathedral (St. Louis) 4, 27
Catholic 7
All Saints Day 326, 329
maids 324
Lent activities 310
pennies, tired of counting 27
wedding practices 87
cattle 64
cemetery 15, 265, 316, 317, 324, 326
“Decoration Day” 326, 329
Cenas family, the 119
Cenas, Charlotte 169
Cenas, Mrs. Hillary P. 169
Champomier, M. 183, 189
Champomier’s sugar report 184
Champromere (alternate spelling of Champomier)
Charleston 254
Chartres street 3, 58, 59, 160, 310, 313
chefs, none 42
Chew, Beverly 168
Chew, Mrs. Morris nee Mary Smith 168
“Children should be seen and not heard” 1
chirography (hand writing) 18
chocolate 26
Choppin family 177
Choppin’s tomb (Doctor) 329
children of 1840, New Orleans 1-6
China berry trees 94, 141
chiné silk 103
Chinn, Eliza Moore, brief biography of 331-332
Chinn, Dick (Eliza’s brother, Richard ) 94, 95, 97
Chinn, Henry (Eliza’s brother) 112, 113
Chinn, Judge (Eliza’s father) 73, 259-260
Chinn, Richard (Eliza’s father) 169, 331-332
Baton Rouge home 211, 262
New Orleans homes 2, 178, 318-319
Canal near Camp gone 319
her father’s law office 319
his father’s residence 178
now a carpenter shop 319
On Customhouse street 318-319
Chambres á louer (Chambers for hire) 318
Christ Church, 69
location; Baronne at Canal 161
rector of 9
Christmas 256
Christophe tea cup, a 32
Christy, Col. 297
Christy, George W. 149
church sewing society 20
cigars 186
Circuit Rider’s Wife, The (book) 204
cistern 39
Civil War 168, 178, 190
Claiborne street 3, 35
Clapp, Doctor, 123
described 121
organist 20
Clapp’s Church, Dr. 120
described 121
fire 121
claret 26
Clay, Henry 48, 104, 113, 319
monument 178
visitor 169
Clay’s statue (Henry) 3
cleaning pots 39
clothing 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 12, 14, 176, 180
accessories 59, 60, 176
also see shoes, sewing, fabrics
apple tree board 102
black alpaca 2
black bombazine 2
black fabric 59
blouse volante 308
bonnet 61, 84, 110
bridal 176
calico 32
cap 82, 83, 84
cap sleeves 85
cardinal (women’s accessory item) 60
chamois skin pantaloons 277, 278
children’s 2
clawhammer coat with tails 53
coat 59
corset board 29, 102
costumes 101
denim, price per yard 278
dress 86
dress cap 83
fan 157
fashion 102
French imports 59
frills and rushings 84
getting dressed 36
gloves 61, 85, 110, 148, 278
white kid 268
gums 17
handkerchief 53
tying coins in corner of 22, 225
hat 25, 51, 55, 60, 61
hat pins 110
headdress 176
high boots 166
hobble skirt 53
loops under shoes, pant leg 53
mammy garments 215
mantillas 59, 60
mop cap of gold lace 82
mourning 2, 59, 66
mourning veil 260
men’s clothing 1, 104
men’s pants 37, 53
muslin, price per yard 278
overalls 278
overcoat 320
pantalettes and pantaloons 2, 59
paper collar 278
papilottes, in 26
parasol 85
party dress 85
pelisse (cloak) 2
rain gear 44, 166
razor 178
remade (recycled) 2, 37
ready-made 1, 37
removable long sleeves 85
repairs 15
shawl 2
shoes 17, 85, 86, 166, 174
shot silk dress 37
slippers 86
slips of brown Holland placed on nude statues 40
stitch described (is the backstitch) 37
stockings 267
stocks made of buckram 53, 54
stomacher 67
Sunday black silk dress 210
tail-coat 37
tailor-cut and sewn at home 37
tobacco pouch 277
“toilets” were simple 67
Turkey-tail fan 157
trousseau 91, 92
umbrella 29, 85
uniform 270
veil, green barége 148
visites (accessory) 60
waterproofs 17
whalebones 102
coach or carriage 68, 95
coachman’s horn 138
cobble stones, stage over 249
cochineal 44
cocoanut, pink 31
coffee 3, 4, 25, 68, 261
Manette’s stall 3, 4, 304
substitute 275
cognomen 9
Cohan, M. M. (attorney) 162
coins: see picayunes, pennies
cold cream 114
color, turkey red 35
colors worn 61
Confederate
blankets for soldiers 301
calaboose
in the and escape from 280-286
sketching the 317
Captain 315
carpets as blankets 302
exiled in Cuba 286, 287
first officer to fall 156
flag, home-made 299
in Parish Prison New Orleans 274
money, value of 271
soldier 270
wounded soldier 266
Confederate gray 268
Congo Square 274, 317
Conrad, Fred 301
Conrey, Peter 165
Constance street 165
convents 7
cook book 43
cooking 39, also see; food, utensils, pots, etc.
cornet 52
corset board 29
cost of fabrics 59
cotton brokers 40
cotton factory near Woodville 95
cotton; guncotton 109
Countess di Brazza 118
Cox, Mrs. 31
crane for hanging pots in open fireplace 39
crawfish ditch 3, 324
cream cheese vendor, Creole 26
creek is up, the 96
Crenshaw, Mr. 268
Creole(s) 25, 26
hospitality 315
crepe lisse 59, 61
Crescent City, The, steamer 86
crevasse 197, 198
Cripps, Dr. Clapp’s organist 20, 121
crochet 14, 16, 22, 148
croquet 142
Cuba, exiles in 286, 287, 289
Cuban bananas 44
Cuban cooking 291
Cuban rebellion 292
guerilla 92
Cubi y Soler, Senor Marino 9
curtains/curtain
Irish point 36
rods described 35
Madras 36
net 36
Nottingham 36, 82
curtsey 12
cuspidor 261
Custom House, the 128
Custom House/Customhouse street 7, 162, 318-319
Daigre, Gilbert 301
dance/dancing 5, 6, 11, 143
a quadrille 48
mazourka 148
polka 148
reel 262
dance/dancing school 5, 37, 104
daguerreotypes 55
first ones taken in N. O. 125
studio location 125
dashboard 320
Dauphin, one wed a 177
Davidson, Thomas Green 251, 254
Davis, Jefferson
family 288
Mr. & Mrs. 126
Monument Association 289
Dawson, Eugene Wythe 151, 152
Day, James I. 121
Daily Comet 302
(Daily) Picayune, of the 143, 150
De Blanc family, the 142
De Bow, J. De B of “review” fame 296, 297
De Choiseul 277
Decoration Day 326, 329
De La Chaise, Philippe wed Victoria Gasquet 117
Delarouelle, Mme 8, 13
De Leon, DDS 4
delinquencies 19
delivery of purchses 60
delivery of invitations 42
demeanor of men 66
demijohn of, a (5 gallons of) 298
Democratic Convention 254
demoiselles 8, 10, 11
dentist 4
deportment 11, 12
De Saulles, Mr. 296
Deslonde, Caroline wed R. W. Adams 117
Deslonde family mammy 214
Deslonde, Mathilde wed Gen Beauregard117
Desrayoux, Mme. 13
Destrehan, Eliza 318
Destrehan Plantation 317, 318
Devoti, M. 11, 12, 13
de Vries, Rosa 68, 70
De Wolf, Young (of Rhode Island) 117
Dick (her brother, Richard ) 94, 95, 97
Dick & Hill, cotton brokers 40
Dick, old Jimmie 40
dinner, pick up, 51
dinner hour 63
discipline 18, 19
dish washing, morning 31
dissected 18
divorce 91
doctor 17, 109, 177, 178,
salary per annum 194
surgical bargain 273
dolls,
wooden described 28
doorknob 50, 56
Doric, the (a ship that sunk) 113
Dougherty, John A. 250
Doussan, Doctor (botanist) 173, 175, 179
Doussan, Mme. 177
dragees 52
drawing lessons 17, 18
drawing room 51
dressed, getting 36
Dreux, Col.; first Confederate officer to fall 156
dried grasshoppers 27
drinks
brandy 52
brown-sugar coffee 25
brown sugar lemonade 269, 270
café au lait 185
catnip tea 276
chocolate 26
claret 26
coffee 3, 68, 261, 276
Manette’s stall 304
substitute 275
finger of Whisky 198
ginger syrup 24
hot ginger tea 17
Madeira 298
mead 23, 24
orange leaf tea (induces perspiration) 276, 277
sassafras tea (thins blood) 277
tea 276
tisane, hot (infusion of dried herbs) 185
water, river water 136; also see, water
whisky 52, 198, 261
wine, a glass of 198
Druthers 266, 268
Dubroca, Mme (sister of Mrs. Judge Eustis)
died of 176
Ducayet, F., Major of Houston, Texas 127, 128
Ducayet family, the 142
Dulcinea 52
Duncan, Mrs. Garnet 26, 90
Duncan, Judge John N. 8, 165
Duncan, Rosa/Rose 8,
wife of Col. William P. Johnston 165
dye,
aniline 59
cochineal red 44, 59
diamond 59
spinach green 44
Early, General 128
eau sucré 43
eclair at Vincent’s 63
editors 170
egg beater 43
embroidered visites, heavily 60
embroideries, Hanburg 82
embroidery 186
Broderie Anglaise 328
canvas work 136
Cross-stitch 295
eyelets on linen, working 328
enameled face 115
enbonpoint (Fr. plumpness) 186
English sparrows 94
engineer 167
epidemic 124
Episcopal clergyman 72, minister 268
Esplanade street 25, 313
essence for seasoning 43
essence of bergamot 112
Eustis, Catherine, Miss 59
Eustis, Celestine, Miss 11
Eustis, Chief Justice 116
Eustis, George 116
Eustis, James B. 168
Eustis, Judge 11
Eustis, Mrs. Judge
died of 176
Exchange Alley 125, 162
Exchange Brokers 161
excursionist 320
exercise 16, 17
extracts 43
extradition treaty 286, 289
exposition, the 271, 320
NOTE “exposition” is the “World’s Industrial & Cotton Centennial Exposition ” held from late fall 1884 to early spring 1885.
eye glasses 37
eyes 61,
eyes, loss of sight 107
fabrics 2, 59, 67, 193, 277, 278
false teeth 21
fan, a Turkey tail 157
Farmer’s and Trader’s Bank 3
farming utensils 251
fashion, see clothing
Fashion, the steamship 130
fashions,
clothes 102
Paris 59
Favrot, Judge 176, 177
female education 10
Ferrier, Odile 150
figs, Celeste 25
filé 27
Finkle and Lyon machine 252
fireplace 39
First Congregational Church, the 120
first railroad in Louisiana 184
fishing for crawfish 3
flatboats 135, 136
floral decoration 52
floral shipments 52
Florida and Georgia, “everything is pine in” 141
Flournoy family 246
flowers 52, 64, 80, 315, 324
food/foods 25, 26
at hotel 97
baking powder 43
bananas 44
bartering 199
bonbons or dragees 52
borrowing 44
buffet 52
buttermilk 114
cake with pink cocoanut icing 39
capon turkey 199
celery 199
Celeste figs 25
cheese 62
clear sides from KY or MO 194
corn 194
cornmeal 273, 274
cow peas 194
crawfish 3, 324
Creole cream cheese 26
currants 43, 110
dodger (a biscuit) 222
dram and hot soup, a 197
(Apparently it should read “a dram of hot soup”)
dried grasshoppers 27
dye, cochineal 44
eclair at Vincent’s 63
eggnog 51, 52, 55
extracts and essences 43
filé 27
flour 273
gelatine 43
ground spices 43
gumbo 27, 43
isinglass 43
left-overs 25, 26, 194
making ice cream 43
making jelly from calves feet 43
market hours 44
molasses 194, 274
mushrooms 198
olive oil 253
on ships 133, 134
party or reception 42
party left-overs sold on street 25, 26
pecans 199
pick-up dinner 51
pickled pork 194
raisins 43
safes 39
sea food 198
shrimp, buy from neighbors 29
soup, content of 26
spinach used for green dye 44
sugar loaves prepared for use 43
sweet potatoes 275
turkey
capon 199
cooked several ways 161
turnips 194
vanilla bean boiled in milk 43
wine 62
wire safes 39
Foucher, Destour 11
fountain with sylph 308
France 180
fraud conviction 280
free man, Levi Stucker 221
French 8
French, Doctor 254
French Imports 59
French lessons 10
French Market 3
French Quarter 303
iron fretwork 304, 307
French spoken 183
Frey, Mme on Chartres 59, 60
Frigerio, P. A. 149
frogs 166
Fry, General and wife, a Micou of Alabama 287
furniture/furnishings 16, 35, 36, 38
bric-a-brac 40, 92
chair rail, chair boarding 72
dealer 61, 62
decoration, extremes 92, 93
pictures 40
portraits 72
sideboard 52, 55
spoons, secreted from the Union 213
tester or four-poster bed 38
walls 71
Gaines, General E. P. 48, 53, 169, 319
Gaines, Henderson and 253
Gaines, Myra Clark (wife of E. P.) 168, 169
famous legal case of 168
Galt House in Louisville 162
gambler, river boat 135
game
cards 175, 300
Garden, Carrollton 63
Garden District 317
gardens 63, 64, 188
gourmande 26
garments 1, 16, 25, 29, 142,
garret (attic) 35
gas light 36
Gasquet, Victoria wed Philip Delachaise 117
gate, a lynch 314
Gayarré, Charles 169
General or Major, neither just soldier 98
Georgia; “everything is pine in Florida and Georgia ” 141
ghosts 8
gifts 89, 91
Gimarchi, Mr, 10
ginger syrup 24
girandole, fancy candelabra 36
Girod street 9
glasses, eye 37
gloves of nankeen 110
galoshes 166
Galveston 206
goat and goat paths 314
Goddard, Miss
governess from New England 187, 188, 265
Goodman house, the 35
Goodman sister wed George Nathan & moved to Rio Janeiro (sic) 143
Goodman sister wed E. C. Wharton of the (Daily) Picayune 143
Gordon, Mrs. Martin 118
Gottschalk’s Bamboula 116, 151
gourmand 26
governess 265
grammar 18
grasshoppers, dried 27
Grandpré, the family 173, 174
Granet, Mme. 8, 13
Granet, Lina 8
grazing cattle 64
Green, Fanny
wed the Captain 264
the Captain and his wife 271
Green, Mr. (attorney) 264, 267, 269, 271
Green’s Plantation on the Amite (river) 266
Grey, Lieutenant Fairfax, of Texas 47
Grey Eagle, the steamship 130, 131, 132
Grimshaws, the 29
gripsacks 320
grocery, Loveille’s 62
grocery shopping 3, 44
Gross, Miss Lou 148
Gross, Dr. Samuel (surgeon) 148
Grosse Tete 252
Grymes, John R. (attorney) 170
gumbo 43
gun cotton 109
gunboats round the point 264, 271
Gunn’s domestic Medicine 194
gutter (street) 3, 38
Hagan, John 298
Hagan, James 298
Haile, Major Dick (Richard) 96
hair (styles) 5, 62, 101, 110
bandoline 111
basket of fruit 111
chignons 276
essence of bergamont 112
false hair, curls 101
Moniteurs des Dames 101
patchouli 111
pomade, contents of 112
pomatum 111, 112
waterfalls 276
hair dresser 111
Hall, Basil, Captain R. N. 137
Hall, Henry, American Consul in Cuba 293
Hall, Messrs (of Kentucky) 245
Hamilton, Adolphus 104
Hanburg embroideries 82
hand work 16
fancy work; old lady work 136
handkerchief, 53
money tied in corner of 22, 225
harness horses 251
Harney, Doctor 254
Harney House, the hostelries 253
Harriet Lane, the capture of the 126
Hart, Samuel (Major Sam) 250
hat 25, 51, 55, 60
Havana 128, 289, 291
haunted house 8, 9
Hawks, Bishop/Doctor 9, 13
rector of Christ Church
Haynes, Mollie 156
health conditions 107, 109
hearing, loss of 107
heat stroke 107
Hebrew nose 55
hectoring over a price 2
Hemans, Mrs. 157
Henderson and Gaines 253
Henman, Alfred 9
Henmen, Anna Maria 9
Henmen, Mr. 9
Hennen, Caroline (Mrs. Muir) 89
Hennen, Duncan 154; Mrs. Duncan 318
Henry Clay, the steamship 130
herbs 27
Hewitt, Lyler &, 39 Camp St., music publisher 151
Hicky, Colonel 198, 199, 214, 261, 301
high boy 16
Highland fling 6
Hildreth, Messrs (of Kentucky) 245
Hill, Dick and, cotton brokers 40
Hillhouse Avenue 17
(I believe Hillhouse Avenue to be a metaphor for St. Charles Avenue. RC-P)
hobble skirt 53
hogsheads (a unit of measure) 39, 194
of brown sugar 252
Hollister, Henry 104
Holmes, Betsy 331-332
Holmes’ store 160
home, Eliza Ripley’s 2
See Chinn and See Mc Hatton
home-made medicines 114
Hope Estate 198, 199, 214
horse branded U. S. 274-275
horse race 245-249
horsehair or horse cloth,
described 38
sofa upholstery 38
horses, stop to change 138
hospital, woman’s 109
hostelries 253
hotel
at the lake 63
Bayou Sara 94, 97
Carrollton 64
Cubano 288, 294
Harney House 253
inconvenient hours of 160
Pass Christian 140, 141, 142
St. Charles 83, 111; fire 123; 128, 245; stage 247
Veranda 123
Hottentot 16
House of Many Mansions, the (heaven) 300
house on stilts 175
Houston, Sam, General 47
Howard, Frank 167
Huguet family of Baton Rouge 178
Hunt family 246
Hyde & Goodrich Jewelry 62
ice
blanket 39
shipped in 39
box, zinc lined 39
ice cream, making 43
icing, pink cocoanut 39
illness 107, 109, 114, 124, 174, 176, 205
Indian basket 315
invalid 296
invitation basket 42
invitations delivered 42
Irish 99
iron fretwork 304, 307
Italian 3
Jackson Square; Place d’Armes 325
jewelry 62
Johns, E. (composer) 150
Johnson, Alan 117
Johnson, Ellen (Mrs. William B. Walker) 101
Johnson family 246
Johnson, Melvina (Mrs. Dr. Warren Stone) 101
Johnston, General Albert Sidney 327
Johnston, Col. William Preston 165
Josephs, A. K., Atty. 105, 162
Josephs, Lyman (of Rhode Island) 168
Julia street 5, 90
home now a carpet store 319
Julia street Row, occupants of 167
Kendall, George W. 105, 170
Kennedy, Joe 35, 119
Kennedy, Josephine 116
(possibly the dear friend) “Phine” 320-330
Kennedy, Rose 116, 119, 148
Kennedy, Dr. William 168
Kennedy, Mrs. William nee Peirce 168-169
Kentucky, 156, 245, 301
blue grass region 138
Galt House 162
Weissiger’s tavern in Frankfort 138
kitchen 39
Kleinpeter, Mr. 252
knitting 16, 22
Kock, Mrs. Charles nee Elena Longer 88
Labouisse, J. P. 168
Labouisse, Mme 171
Labouisse, Mrs. 90
nee Dora Smith 168
lace
Mechlin 82
store 61
Lafayette, General 261
“La Féte au Couvent” 146
Lafiton family 155, 175
Lafiton, Pete 155, 176
Lake Pontchartrain, 63
hotel at the lake 63
“over the lake” 29
Lamar, Mirabeau B., President Rep. of Texas 47
Lamar, Mrs. Mirabeau 48
lamp 36
lamps, whale oil 133
landau or landeaus 325
Lanfear, Louisa wife of David Ogden 167
Lanfear, Mr. 167
Lanfears, the, on Julia street 90
languages, spoke four 86
Lanoue family of Baton Rouge 178
latch string 200-201
Laurel Hill 96
laundry 15
Le Compte (a horse) 246
Lee, Thomas; Major Tom Lee 128
left-overs 194
food sold 25
Lehman, chef d’orchestre 149, 150
Lehman, 194 St. Anne Street 151
Leslie’s, Miss, 1820 cook book 43
levee broke 197
Le Vert, Mme & Dr. 86
Lexington (horse) 245
library 15, 19
lighting, indoor
activities by candle light 36, 52
first gas light 36
oil lamps 36
on ships 133
Lincoln’s assassination 288
linen 2
linsey (fabric, linen and cotton) 193, 277
linsey skirts 216
lip salve 114
loaves of sugar 43
hung from the closet ceiling 43
preparation of 43
Lobdell’s store 182
loge grillée 157
long sleeves, removable 85
Longer, Elena (Mrs. Charles Kock) 88
Longer, Elinor 8
Longer, Heda 88
Louisiana Legislature 196
Louisiana State Bank, Baton Rouge 321
Louisville, KY 162
Laredo, Texas 129
Laurel Hill 297
Laycock, Doctor 161
Lind, Jenny in New Orleans 157
Longworth, Nick (of Ohio) 171
loss of sight or hearing 107
Louisiana State Fair 76, 250
Louisiana State Agriculture and Mechanical Fair 251
Loveille’s grocery, wine & cheese 62
“Lydia Languish” style (lounging about) 143
Lyler & Hewitt, 39 Camp St., music publisher 151
lynch gate, arched and with benches 314
Magnolia tree 189
Magruder, General 207, 287
Magruder, J. Bankhead of Houston, General 126, 127
maid’s duties of 36
mail 22
Major or General, neither just soldier 98
makeup 51, 114, 115
making ice cream 43
making jelly 43 1
mammy, the family 209-212
garments or fashion of 215
Manchac 221
Manette’s stall 3
maniquines or manikins 59
wax figures 59
Manning, Governor of S. C. 275
mantillas 59
marchand (also see merchant) 26
coffee 3, 4, 68, 261, 276
Mardi Gras 55, 122, 325-326
disguise methods 326
market hours 44
Marr, M., tutor 174
marriage, arranged 180
Marseillaise, of the 178
Mayo, music publisher at #5 Camp 151
Mathews, Leonard 168
Mathews, Mary (Mrs. Hugh Wilson) 168
Mathews, Mme 171
Matthews, Brander (of Columbia College) 168
Matthews, Ed, of New York 167
Matthews, Mary Jane 103
Matthews, Mrs. Leonard 31, 83
Maybin, J. A. 297
Maybins, the family 4
mayhap (maybe) 13, 14
Mc Causland, General 98, 297
Mc Causland, George 149
Mc Hatton, Charles 250
Mc Hatton, James Alexander 250, 258
(NOTE Eliza Ripley’s first husband)
Eliza’s “artist daughter” 303-319 (NOTE Eliza only had one daughter)
Eliza’s daughter, Elise 314, 318 (Brief biography at end of book initialed E. R. N.)
Eliza’s family in Cuba 292
Eliza’s home on Custom House street 2, 318
Mc Hatton, Mr. 269
Mc Kean, William, blacksmith on Camp 62
Mc Main, W. W. 299
mead (a drink) 23, 24
Mechlin lace 82
medicines 114, 177, 178, 194, 206
catnip tea for colic 276
orange leaf tea induces perspiration 276, 277
quinine 277
sassafras tea thins blood 277
merchant 167
Alfred Munroe from Boston 1-2
homes over shops 178
Italian banana and orange 3
bead & shell shop 324
merchants, colored 24-25, 26
Messiah, Major 55, 78
Metairie, horse race in 247
Methodist Hymn
“We Shall Know Each Other There” 295
Methodist preacher/minister 48, 100, 205, 267, 268
Methodist service 269
Mexican War 1
Mexico 10
milk 43
Miller, John C.’s home described 76
milliner 60, see hats
Miltenberger brothers 105
Miltenberger residence 178
Minor Plantation, the 77
Mint, The U. S. building 35, 116
Miss Leslie’s Cook Book (circa 1820) 42
Mississippi 75, 169, 204
model of Bunker Hill 40
Moffitt, John L., of Confederate fame 48
Moffitt, John N., Commodore 128, 287
Moise, the portrait artist 76
moleskin 104
money 3, See: picayunes, pennies
bag of picayunes 296
cost of fabric in Houston 278
tied in corner of handkerchief 23
value of 24, 26
Monkey and the Baboon’s Sister, The (rhyme) 214
monkeys as pets 4
Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady 69
Moore, Commodore, of Texas Navy
description of 47
Moore, Governor of Louisiana 128, 287
Moore, Messrs 199
mop cap of gold lace 82
moralizing 22
Morgan, John H., General 245
Morgan, Major, portrait of 72
Morgan, T. G. 299
Morse, Mr. 109
moving by flatboat 136
muddy streets 166
Mudge, Colonel 162
Muir, Mrs. nee Caroline Hennen 89
mule, drowned 198
mullein, leaves of wild 114
Munroe, Alfred (merchant) 1-2
murals 71
muslin, price per yard 278
music 6, 10, 11, 20, 21
book (1847) 146
music, song titles mentioned
Aux Armes! Citoyens 178
Bamboula 116, 151
Battle of Prague 20
Ben Bolt 156
Blue-Eyed Mary 153
Bonnie Blue Flag, The 156
Bring Flowers, Fresh Flowers 157
Canaan, teaching Lewis to sing 196
Carnival de Paris 149
Carrier Dove, The 1554
Clochettes Polka Mazourka 150
Dixie 156
Farewell to Tom Moore 154
Fleuve du tage 155
Flirtation Polka 149
Good-by 154
Grand Polka de Concert 148
Harp that Once Thro’ Tara’s Halls, The,” 147
Home Sweet Home 157
I Cannot Sing the Old Songs 155
Joys That We’ve Tasted 156
Kossuth Galop 149
La Chasse Polka 149
La Dame of Prague 20
La Rose Polka 149
La Valentine Polka 150
La Valse Autrichenne 150
L’Esmeralda Nouvelle Danse de Salon 150
Life on the Ocean Wave 154
Long Time Ago 156
Low-Back’d Car 147
Maniac, The 171
Mazourka Sentimentale 150
Monterey Waltz, The 151
Music of the Spheres 151
Norma, the march from 6
Oft in the Stilly Night 147
Oh, Cast That Shadow From Thy Brow 147, 148
Oh, Would I Were a Boy Again 157
Old Arm Chair, The 154
Old Grimes is Daid 153
Old Rosin the Beau 154
One Summer’s Day in Pensive Thought 154
Polka by Wallace 149
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother 157
Sea Serpent Polka 148
Shells of the Ocean 154
Souvenir de Paris 149
St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning 298
Sweet Alice 157
‘Tis Midnight Hour 147
Twilight Dews 154
Volunteer, The 156
We Have Been Friends Together 155
When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies 155
Musical History of Louisiana, book title 118
musical instrument
end man 261
tambourine 261
triangle 261
violin 12, 261
flute 261
piano 261
musicians 177, 261
mourning clothing 59
nankeen, gloves of 110
Nathan, George 143
Navy Commodore 47
“near” man, a 198
needlepoint; canvas work 136
needlework 16
neighbors sell shrimp 29
Negro ghosts 8
Negro merchants 3, 24-25, 27
Negro servant
delivers invitations 42
travel with you 133
neutral ground 2, 35, 166
New Braunfels, Texas 105
New England seminary 14
New Haven 146, 208
New Orleans cemeteries 316, 317, 324, 326
“Decoration Day” (All Saints Day) 326, 329
New Orleans had fallen 265
New Year’s Day 50, 51
receiving on 56
refreshments 52
servants social habits 50, 51
New York 15, 167, 168
Astor House 85
Talmage’s Tabernacle in Brooklyn 120
The Little Church Around the Corner 144
New York families 19
Babcock, William wed 89, 90
Sherman 19
Kirby 19
Phalen 19
Pumpelly 19
Thorn 19
newspaper 24, 87
Daily Comet 302
Daily Picayune 143, 150
editors 170
engagements announced in 88
Paris Journal 180
society page 144
“Nicholas Nickleby” 138
niggardliness 27
nose, Hebrew 55
nude statues 40
nurse 214
oculist 37
Ogden, David 167
orgeat syrup 64
oil lamp 36
Old Maids’ Hall 17
Olympe 60
Opera House 65, 67, 309
opine (suppose) 13
organist, Dr. Clapp’s 20, 121
ornamental items 40
osnaburg (coarse cotton fabric) 193, 277
oven 39
overcoat 320
“over the lake” 29
patchouli 111
pantalettes 5
pantaloons, men’s skin tight 53, 59
pantry
butler’s 38
half-moon opening 39
paper collar 278
paper flowers 324
parapets 2
parasol 85
Paris, wife goes to 91, 179
Paris fashions 59
Paris Journal (newspaper) 180
parlor 51
parterre 81, 188, 304
party 5, 21, 300
card/playing cards 175, 300
clean-up 49
dress 85
reception/receiving 42, 56
typical hours of 48, 262
Pass Christian
before the railroad & summer cottages 141
Hotel 140, 142, 296
“pass the silver through delicate fingers” 31, 32
patent medicines 114
paterfamilias 261
Patrick, Doctor (plantation) 74, 75
Patrick, Eliza 135
peacock, pet 315
pecans 199
Peirce, Caroline 296
Peirce, Cora 296
Peirce, Miss (Mrs. William Kennedy) 168-169
Peirce, Mr. Levi 169, 295
Peirce, Mrs. 296
Peirce, also see Pierce
penitentiary at Baton Rouge 280
pennies 23
perfume 51
Perkins, John 250
perquisites 30
Peters, S. J. 298
Peuch, Mme 171
Philadelphian 207
Phine, my dear friend 320-330
photo/daguerreotype 55
first ones taken in N. O. 125
picayune, a 1, 3, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28
bag of picayunes 296
Spanish coin 28
un escalin (two picayunes) 27
value of 26, 29
Picayune (The Daily) see Daily
picayunish 27
pictures 40, 55
Pierce, also see Peirce
Pierce, Granville 252
Pierce family, the 119
pigtail(s) 5, 63
Pike, William A. (Kentucky bred) 250, 301, 302,
Pike, William S. 321
moved to Canada 321
his brother in Shreveport 322
pine; “everything is pine in Florida and Georgia” 141
pitcher, silver 76
Place d’Armes 325
plantation,
Arlington 257, “our” 298
ball guests at the 260
beg to lodge at a 97
Cottage 252
dairy folio 193
Deer Range 298
Destrehan 317
folio 195
Green’s Plantation on the Amite (river) 265
Hope Estate 198, 199, 214
life 191-200
Philadelphians visit and inspect 207
slave quarters 192, 193
The Minor 77
The Oaks 74
wedding at Arlington 257
Whitehall 74, 252, 259
plants 5
play, “as good as a play to watch” 254
Pluche, Mme Pluche’s shop on Royal 59
Poems of Emilia (book) 297
Poindexter, Governor of Mississippi; portrait of his wife 75
poise and posture 102
Pollock, James on Royal 81, 90
Pollock, Mana 90
pomade for hair; of beef marrow, castor oil, & perfume 112
pomatum 111; all pomatumed up 51
pompadour 83
Pontalba buildings dilapidated 325
Pope’s Essay on Man 18
Porter, Cora U. 118
post man, none 42
postal fees 23
posture and poise 102
pots and pans 39
pousse café, a 76
Poydras Market 4
Poydras street 297
prayer 18
Prentice, Mrs. George D. of Kentucky 156
Prentiss, Sargent S. of Mississippi 169
Presbyterian 99, 137
Preston, General 128
priest, wit of 27
private food on ship 134
private pie 134
prizes of silver 251
promenade on the levee 175
Protestant wedding practices 87
public conveyance 44
public table on ship 134
punishment, school 7
Quiggins girls, the 244
race track 245-249
rain gear 44, 166
reading goody-goody books 16
reception, giving a 42
Reconstruction 196, 275
recreation 16, 63-68
refreshments 51
Renshaw, Mrs. 121
repousse 76
Representative of the 6th District 251
Republic of Texas 47
restaurant(s) 63
rhetoric 18
Rhode Island 117, 168
Rhodes, Dr. 9
rice powder 114
Richardson, Dr. T. G. 137
Richardson, Mrs. Dr. T. G. nee Ida Slocomb 25, 118
ring of shell 176
Rio (de) Janeiro 143
Ripley, Eliza’s
brief biography of 331-332
family in Cuba 292
photo & signature (facing 324)
Robin street 165
Roman, Alfred 190
Roman family 187, 190
rosaries 324
rose, Cherokee hedges 220
rose, Chickasaw hedges 220
rose hedge 64
rose, Lady Banks 220
rose on my pillow 185
rowboat on river 177
Royal street 8, 9, 58, 59, 61, 62, 81, 117, 150, 160, 178, 300, 325
rugs
in one piece 35
rumble (rumble or boot of stagecoach) 138
running water in home 38
rushings 84
Sacre Coeur Convent 180, 189
safes, food 39
made of wire 39
Sager, Mr. 167
Salaam 12
Salvation Army 146
Sambola, Captain 315
San Antonio, Texas 105
sandstorm 129
Saturday night bath 212
Scholar’s Companion 14
school 5, 6, 7, 13
school subjects 18
Scott, Sir Walter 15
scoured daily with brick dust 40
sea shells 40, 324
seafood 198
Seibricht’s on Royal 61
Seignoret on Royal 62
servants
Dilsey 99
Elfey 99
maids 260
social habits 50
travel with you 133, 260
valet 200-201
sewer 38
sewing: also see clothing, embroidery, knit, crochet
dyes 59
every woman 37
fancy work 136
fabrics, cost of 59
Finkle and Lyon machine 252
gold thimble 295
needles with gold eye 276
pins 276
society 20
stitch described (backstitch) 37
tailor-cut and sewn at home 37
sewing machine 37
Shall, Mme boarding house 162
shaving or razor 278
shawl 2,
Sherman in Georgia 209
Shields, Emma 103
Shiloh 268
ship 15
accommodations on; men’s cabin; lady’s cabin 132
baggage on 132
bellpull on 136
comradery aboard 183
gambler, river boat 135
general cabin 136
gunboats round the point 264
lamps 132
sailing 15, 22
staterooms on 132
steamer/steamship 22, 86, 94, 130, 328
Yankee clipper 190
ship mentioned by name
Belle Creole 94, 159, 173, 179, 182, 183, 189, 190, 298
Belle Key 328, 329
Belle of the West 130
Crescent City, The 86
Fashion 130
Grey Eagle 130-132
Harriet Lane, the capture of the 126
Henry Clay 130
shoes 17, 19, 85, 86
laced 85
protection 17, 166
carpet slippers 174
shop or show window 59
bead & shell shop 324
shopping for groceries 44
shopping region 58
moved to Canal street 58
shops 58, 324
shot silk 37
Shreveport 322
shrimp 29
Shute, Maria (Mrs. Babcock) 89
sideboard 52, 55
sight, loss of 107
Silas Holmes, Yankee clipper 190
silk,
cap 84
Chine 103
hat 55
Marceline 59
shot 37
silver pitcher 76
urn-shaped 323
silver stash 322
silverware, chest of 321-323
sinks 38
skillets and “spiders” 39
skin
acid treatment 110
soft soap dries out skin 277
mutton tallow for dry cracked skin 277
Skinner & Company, New Haven 146
Slark, Day and Stauffer 253
Slark family, the 165
Slark, Mrs. Abigail L. 166
slave
Black William 261
children, Mary Ann and Martha Ann 216-244
children ten years old 196
Christmas tree 258, 259
Christmas week 258
clothing 193
convict mother 196
dirt floors 192
food 194, 197
holiday 258
hook worm 193
John 3
Lewis 196, 257
marriage of 257, 258
Mammy Charlotte 197, 198, 212
Mammy Milly 214
preacher 257
quarters 192, 193
shoes (shod) 193
spiritual needs of 195
Uncle Billy 198
white person’s feelings for their mammy 209-212
Slidell, Messrs, U. S. Senator 199, 215, 250, 254
family 289
family mammy 214
Slidell, Mrs. John’s sisters 117
slippers 86
slips of brown Holland 40
Slocomb, Augusta 149
wed an Urquhart 118
Mrs. David Urquhart 167
Slocomb, Cuthbert 167, 253, 277
dressed as a baby for Mardi Gras 325-326
wed a Miss. Day 118
Slocomb, Ida, widow of Dr. T. G. Richardson 25, 118, 167
Slocomb, Tenie 6
Slocomb, Mrs. 87, 325
to Europe 172
Slocomb’s, Mrs., mother 31
Slocombs, the 31
first gas light 36
on St. Charles street 36
Smith, Dora (Mrs. J. P. Labouisse) 168
Smith, Howard, General 128, 129
Smith, Kirby; General E. Kirby Smith 127, 128
Smith, Mary (Mrs. Morris Chew) 168
Smith, Miss,
niece of Mrs. Labouisse 89-90
wed Mr. William Babcock of New York 89
Smith, Mme. 171
Smith, Mrs. Abe (of Mississippi) 204
Smith, Persifor, General 54
Smith, Sarah (Mrs. Charles Cammack) 168
snakes 166
social calls 41
social customs 41, 101
unfashionable for ladies 248
social habits of servants 50
society, church sewing 20
society page in newspaper 144
soft soap, home-made (dries out skin) 277
Soulé, Pierre
diplomat 170
Minister of Spain 289
soup bone 26
Spanish 9
Spanish coin 28
Spanish iron 304, 307
Spanish lessons 10
Spanish Marquesa 291
Sparks, Colonel 254
spelling 14
spiders, a cooking utensil 39
“spoons” Butler 213
spoons secreted from the Federal troops 213
St. Angelo school 7, 8
St. Anne street 68, 309
St. Charles Hotel 83, 111; fire 123; 128, 162, 245; stage 245
St. Charles street/avenue 36, 295, 324
St. Hubert, lead image of 316
St. Roch cemetery 316
sketching not allowed 317
stagecoach 137, 138
state land office 280
statues, life size and nude 40
steamer, see ship
The Crescent City 86
steel utensils 39, 40
street cars, 2, 44, 68
carriages 68
dashboard 320
mule drawn 313, 316,
refused to go then ran wild 320-321
none 44
stocks made of buckram 53, 54
Stone, Dr. Warren 101, 273, 274
stored in the garret 35
Story, Judge lived on Canal street 2
Story, Sid 2
Story, Ben 2
stove 39
stovepipe (hat) 51, 55
Strakosch, M. (composer) 148, 149, 150
Strand, the 16
Strawbridge, Miss Sarah 5
Strawbridges, the 297
street merchants 24, 25, 26
street vendor’s stall 3
streets not named 165
strewn with tobacco leaves 35
Stucker, Levi (free man) 221
substitutes 273-279
stuffing of moss, cotton, hair 102
sugar, “boiling cane juice” 206
sugar, loaves of 43
sugar making 195
sugar report, Champomier’s 184
surgical bargain 273
Sun Mutual Insurance Company 161, 168
sunburn 107
Sunday
work on 195
black silk dress 210
supernumerary 209
sylph, fountain with 308
Syme, Mr. 61
syrup 24, 64
Svengali 157
swamp 63
Swiler, Mrs. 44
Swiveller, Dick 65
Symes’ lace store on Royal 178
tables 36
tail-coat 37
tailor-cut and sewn at home 37
tall silk hat 55
Talmage’s Tabernacle in Brooklyn (NY) 120
tarleton (a type of fabric) 103
tatting called frivolite 328
tavern warned of number of passengers 138
Taylor, Dick “son of the president” 144
Taylor, General 300, 302
Taylor, Richard
General 299
General Dick 118
funeral of 144
Taylor, Zach 295
tchuny (lady’s undergarment) 102
tea, hand round 63
tea, hot ginger 17
tea cup, a Christophe 32
tea cups and spoons 31
tea rooms 63
teachers 13
teeth, false 21
Temple, Mrs Doswell 48
ten guests, unexpected 203
Tenbroeck, Richard (of Kentucky) 248
Texas 47, 105, 126, 127, 128, 129, 144, 206
things that did not exist then 1, 42, 44, 98, 109, 110, 114, 141, 142-143, 144, 160, 166
things that were scarce during the Civil War 276
Thirteen Buildings, The 90, 172, 319
occupants of 167-172
three-ply carpets 32
Throckmorton, Major Aris 162
tisane, (a drink) 185
tobacco, chaw of 225
tobacco leaves, carpets strewn with 35
tobacco pouch 277
“toilets” were simple 67
Toombs, Robert; General and Mrs. 128, 287
toothbrush, substitute for 276
Tonti street 59
Toulouse street 35
tournure or tchuny (a lady’s undergarment) 102
Touro, Judah 120, 123
transportation 44, 260
American stagecoach 137, 138
baggage 138
coachman’s horn 138
rumble or boot of 138
carriage or coach 68, 95
coach and four 301, 302
stage, nine passenger 247
street cars, 44, 68, 271
horses, stop to change 138
moving by flatboat 136
mules 198
railroad tram (flatbed car) 184
rowboat or skiff 177, 260
ship or boat, see ship
turtle-back vehicles 260
trees
Althea (bush) 259, 276
China berry 94, 141
Pecan 216
Magnolia frascati 189
Tricou, Estelle 149
Triton Walk (it is now Howard Avenue) 162
trousseau 91, 92
trunk visitors 200-201
tuberculosis treatment 206
turkey
boiled hen with oyster dressing 161
capon 199, 219
diet of 219
flock of on Camp 161
live 161
roast gobbler 161
turkey red 35
turtle-back vehicles 260
turtle-top coach 95
Turveydrop 13, 17
U. S. Ambassador to France 168
U. S. Army officer at Charleston 291
U. S. Barracks at Baton Rouge 251, 299, 301
U. S. military station 299
U. S. Senator 199, 250, 254
umbrella 29, 85
Union
Army 195
Federals, the 213, 273, 302
horse branded U. S. 274-275
officer 274
Up from Slavery 192
upholstery, horsehair cloth 38
Urquhart, an. . .wed Augusta Slocomb 118
Ursuline 7
Ursuline Convent 314
utensils 39, 40, 43
Valentines 21
Valérie Allain, both died of 176
vanilla bean 43
Veranda Hotel 123
vests 59
Victorine, Mme 68
Vincent’s (confectioner) 63, 68
violets, fragrant 315
violinists 177
visites, heavily embroidered (women’s accessory item) 60
visitors, trunk 200-201
Walker, Alec (editor) 170
Walker, Mrs. William B. nee Ellen Johnson 101, 273
Walker, William at Manchac 302
walking stick 51, 52
walks 16, 17
wall coverings 71, 73
wall decorations 71
Wallace (composer) 148, 149
Walton, Mme 86
Ward family 246
Ward, George W. 250
Ward, Mrs., wife of Episcopal clergyman 72
washing dishes 31, 32
in a wooden piggin 31
“pass the silver through delicate fingers” 32
Washington Artillery 315
Washington, Booker T. 192
water
cistern 39
filtering methods 39
in the home 38
jars, earthen 39
river water 136
water proofs 17
Waters, Major 54
wax figures, manikins 59
wax head, mechanical 4
weather permitting 67
wedding
ceremony 87
Catholic & Protestant practices 87
customs 101
engagement 87
engagement announced in newspaper 88
gifts, practice of 89, 91
preacher missed the train 99
weeds 166
Weissiger’s tavern in Frankfort, KY 138
West, Douglas 327, 329
whale oil lamps 133
Wharton, E. C. 143, 144
Wharton, Mr (attorney) 162
whisky 52
White, Clara 297
White, Col. Maunsel 169, 297
Deer Range Plantation 298
White, Eliza (Mrs. Cuthbert Bullitt) 169
White, Miss 121
white gloves 267
white person’s feelings for their mammy 209-212
white stockings 267
Whitehall Plantation 74, 252, 259
Whitewashing in and out 195
Wilson, Mrs. Hugh nee Mary Mathews 168
wine, claret 26
Winthrop,
Colonel 61, 199
Colonel John 300
Colonel & Mrs. John 117
John of the Massachusetts Winthrops 178
Women’s Exchange, the 63
woman’s hospital 109
Woodbridge, Jahleel, New Orleans preacher 99, 100
wooden dolls described 28
Woodlief and Walker 101
Woodlief’s on Chartres 58, 59
Woodville 95, 96, 98
Woodward, Ellsworth, sketch opposite page 38
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in New Orleans 264, 273
occupation 18
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Zacharie, J. W. 113
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