BGuthrie Photos: LA -- Baton Rouge -- Old Arsenal Museum

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. ARSENA_130524_007.JPG: Nice to know junior vandalized something in your memory, mom! Hopefully he'll steal you a really nice Christmas present too.
2. ARSENA_130524_026.JPG: From the Ordnance Manual for the use of the officers of the United States Army, 1862 (1) The sentinel or guard at the magazine should have NO FIREARM and everyone who enters should TAKE OFF HIS SHOES or PUT SOCKS OVER THEM; NO SWORD, or CANE, or ANYTHING WHICH MIGHT OCCASION SPARKS, should be carried in. (2) FIXED AMMUNITION, especially for cannon, should not be put in same magazine with powder in barrels. (3) Never store FIREWORKS in the powder magazine. (4) It is of the greatest importance to preserve unobstructed the CIRCULATION OF AIR, under the flooring as well as above. (5) The building should not be opened in DAMP WEATHER. (6) The VENTILATORS MUST BE KEPT FREE; no shrubbery or trees should be allowed to grow so near as to protect the building from the sun. (7) FIRE should never been kindled near the powder magazine for the repair of the roof or lightning-rod. (8) Barrels of powder should NOT BE ROLLED; they should be carried in hand barrows, or slings made of rope or leather. (9) In MOVING POWDER in the magazine, a cloth or carpet should be spread; ALL IMPLEMENTS used there should be of wood or copper, and the barrels should NEVER BE REPAIRED in the magazine. (10) When it is necessary to ROLL THE POWDER for its better PRESERVATION and to prevent its caking, this should be done, with a small quantity at a time, on boards in the magazine yard. (11) In the spring an INSPECTION of the barrels should be made, and the hoops swept with a brush wherever they can be got at, to remove the insects which deposit their eggs at this season.
3. ARSENA_130524_038.JPG: One powder barrel equals 11,338 shots from the 58 caliber rifle-musket
4. ARSENA_130524_044.JPG: One powder barrel equals 50 shots from the 9 inch cannon
5. ARSENA_130524_050.JPG: One powder barrel equals 5 shots from the 13 inch mortar
6. ARSENA_130524_056.JPG: One powder barrel equals 1 round from the eight guns of the ironclad Essex
7. ARSENA_130524_061.JPG: Indian Tribes of Louisiana: Indians were the first people to live in the area occupied by present-day Louisiana. Although they did not set well-defined territorial limits, this map shows various tribal locations. The Indians sketched from life by A. De Batz (1732) are a chief of the Tunica and the wife and son of a chief recently massacred by the Natchez.
8. ARSENA_130524_067.JPG: French Louisiana: 1689 The name Louisiana, in honor of King Louis XIV, applied to a large, vaguely defined area in 1689. Mobile, now in Alabama, was then part fo Louisiana, as was territory far to the north.
9. ARSENA_130524_074.JPG: Spanish & English Louisiana 1763 During the French and Indian War (1756-63), France gave New Orleans and French holdings west of the Mississippi to Spain. England temporarily held the Florida parishes and forts along the Mississippi, including one at Baton Rouge.
10. ARSENA_130524_086.JPG: Louisiana Purchase: 1803 In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana from the west bank of the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains. The purchase also included the southeast portion of present-day Louisiana, but Spanish West Florida, which included Baton Rouge, was not a part of the Purchase. The United States then organized the area south of 33 degrees (the present northern boundary of Louisiana) into the Territory of Orleans.
11. ARSENA_130524_095.JPG: West Florida Republic: 1810 A revolt in 1810 led to the creation of the independent state of West Florida at Spain's expense. The United States annexed the area a few weeks later.
12. ARSENA_130524_104.JPG: Louisiana: 1812: This map shows the boundaries of Louisiana today. Except for the addition of the Florida parishes a few days after Louisiana became a state on April 30, 1812, these were the boundaries at the time of statehood. Louisiana then had nineteen parishes. Today it has sixty-four.
13. ARSENA_130524_126.JPG: Construction of the military post and arsenal on these grounds began in 1819 and continued into the 1830s and even after. This powder magazine was built in 1838. In the years between 1819 and 1822 much of the work was done by soldiers of the 1st US Infantry Regiment, who were rewarded with extra pay of 15 cents a day and an extra ration of whiskey. A watercolor by WT Kummer of Philadelphia, dated 1821, shows some fo the buildings at the Baton Rouge post during the first phase of construction. These were galleries supported by columns on the facing sides of the barracks buildings, but none of those looking outward -- they were added later.
14. ARSENA_130524_131.JPG: The house that General Taylor and his family occupied after his return from the Meican War stood on the bluffs overlooking the river immediately to the south of the Pentagon Barracks. It had originally been the home of the Spanish commandant. This pen-and-ink sketch was drawn by Taylor himself in 1848, the year before he left Baton Rouge. The home was demolished in 1859.
15. ARSENA_130524_157.JPG: Kalamazoo the home of the Michigan 6th Regt all but 9 1/2 companies. In memory of J.C. Breckenridge. AGA
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