New Orleans

[mt155]

Has anybody been to the Museum of the Conf. in N.O.? Is it worth an hour or two or a days time? Is Hood's grave hard to find? I'll be going there for Memorial Day weekend.

Mike .T

[ole]

Have a fun trip, Mike. From what I've heard, you'll need more than an hour, but I'll leave the advice for people who actually know something about it.

ole

[larry_cockerham]

Originally Posted by mt155

Has anybody been to the Museum of the Conf. in N.O.? Is it worth an hour or two or a days time? Is Hood's grave hard to find? I'll be going there for Memorial Day weekend.

Mike .T

If you find Hood's grave, please say a prayer of your choice. In McMurray's 1992 biography of Hood, he wrote: "Hood's friends decided on upon a quick and quiet funeral. Offers from veterans' organizations to perform last rites were declined, and only a few former comrades in arms followed his casket from Trinity Episcopal Church to Lafayette No. 1 Cemetery that afternoon after his death. A salute by a hurriedly organized detachment of a local company called the Continental Guards added the military touch to his last rites." Might try a Google search for the church to get an address?

[larry_cockerham]

Originally Posted by larry_cockerham

If you find Hood's grave, please say a prayer of your choice. In McMurray's 1992 biography of Hood, he wrote: "Hood's friends decided on upon a quick and quiet funeral. Offers from veterans' organizations to perform last rites were declined, and only a few former comrades in arms followed his casket from Trinity Episcopal Church to Lafayette No. 1 Cemetery that afternoon after his death. A salute by a hurriedly organized detachment of a local company called the Continental Guards added the military touch to his last rites." Might try a Google search for the church to get an address?

I could NOT find John Bell Hood listed in the database from the Lafayette No. 1 Cemetery. Maybe he was moved?? I did find the following on the Wikipedia article for John Bell Hood:

John Bell Hood is buried in the Hennen family tomb at Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans.

Obviously I (we) need to dig further. (no pun intended?)

[larry_cockerham]

Originally Posted by larry_cockerham

I could NOT find John Bell Hood listed in the database from the Lafayette No. 1 Cemetery. Maybe he was moved?? I did find the following on the Wikipedia article for John Bell Hood:

John Bell Hood is buried in the Hennen family tomb at Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans.

Obviously I (we) need to dig further. (no pun intended?)

I did find the following in the Wikipedia article on Metaire Cemetery:

Apparently Beauregard and Hood are both there.....

Metairie Cemetery has the largest collection of elaborate marble tombs and funeral statuary in the city.

One of the most famous is the Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division monument, a monumental tomb of Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. The monument includes two notable works by sculptor Alexander Doyle (1857 - 1922):

1) Atop the tomb is a 1877 equestrian statue of General Albert Sidney Johnston on his horse "Fire-eater", holding binoculars in his right hand. General Johnston was for a time entombed here, but the remains were later removed to Texas.

2) To the right of the entrance to the tomb is a 1885 life size statue represents a Confederate officer about to read the roll of the dead during the American Civil War. The statue is said to have been modeled after Sergeant William Brunet of the Louisiana Guard Battery, but is intended to symbolically represent all Confederate soldiers.

Other notable monuments in Metairie Cemetery include:

the pseudo-Egyptian pyramid
the former tomb of Storyville madam Josie Arlington
Moriarity tomb, with a marble monument with a height of 60 feet tall. A temporary special spur railroad line was built to bring the materials for this monument.
Memorial of 19th-century police chief David Hennessey, whose murder sparked a riot.
Notables buried in Metairie Cemetery include:

P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate military officer
John Bell Hood, Confederate military officer
William C. C. Claiborne, the first U.S. Governor of Louisiana
Marguerite Clark, stage & film actress
Dorothy Dix, advice columnist
Jim Garrison, New Orleans District Attorney
Michael Hahn, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives and Governor of Louisiana
William W. Heard, Governor of Louisiana
Andrew Higgins, inventor of the "Higgins Boat"
Al Hirt, jazz trumpeter
Grace King, author
Richard W. Leche, Governor of Louisiana
Samuel D. McEnery, Governor of Louisiana
deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr., Mayor of New Orleans
deLesseps Story "Toni" Morrison, Jr., state Representative from Orleans Parish
Mel Ott, Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player
Benjamin M. Palmer, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans (1856-1902)
John M. Parker, Governor of Louisiana
P.B.S. Pinchback, African American Governor of Louisiana for 35 days, 1872-1873
Louis Prima, bandleader
Stan Rice, poet
John Leonard Riddell, Melter and Refiner of Mint 1839-1848, Postmaster 1859-1862, inventor of the binocular microscope
Norman Treigle, opera star
Harold White, Renowned Neuro-Surgeon

[larry_cockerham]

Originally Posted by larry_cockerham

I did find the following in the Wikipedia article on Metaire Cemetery:

Apparently Beauregard and Hood are both there.....

Metairie Cemetery has the largest collection of elaborate marble tombs and funeral statuary in the city.

One of the most famous is the Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division monument, a monumental tomb of Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. The monument includes two notable works by sculptor Alexander Doyle (1857 - 1922):

1) Atop the tomb is a 1877 equestrian statue of General Albert Sidney Johnston on his horse "Fire-eater", holding binoculars in his right hand. General Johnston was for a time entombed here, but the remains were later removed to Texas.

2) To the right of the entrance to the tomb is a 1885 life size statue represents a Confederate officer about to read the roll of the dead during the American Civil War. The statue is said to have been modeled after Sergeant William Brunet of the Louisiana Guard Battery, but is intended to symbolically represent all Confederate soldiers.

Other notable monuments in Metairie Cemetery include:

the pseudo-Egyptian pyramid
the former tomb of Storyville madam Josie Arlington
Moriarity tomb, with a marble monument with a height of 60 feet tall. A temporary special spur railroad line was built to bring the materials for this monument.
Memorial of 19th-century police chief David Hennessey, whose murder sparked a riot.
Notables buried in Metairie Cemetery include:

P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate military officer
John Bell Hood, Confederate military officer
William C. C. Claiborne, the first U.S. Governor of Louisiana
Marguerite Clark, stage & film actress
Dorothy Dix, advice columnist
Jim Garrison, New Orleans District Attorney
Michael Hahn, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives and Governor of Louisiana
William W. Heard, Governor of Louisiana
Andrew Higgins, inventor of the "Higgins Boat"
Al Hirt, jazz trumpeter
Grace King, author
Richard W. Leche, Governor of Louisiana
Samuel D. McEnery, Governor of Louisiana
deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr., Mayor of New Orleans
deLesseps Story "Toni" Morrison, Jr., state Representative from Orleans Parish
Mel Ott, Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player
Benjamin M. Palmer, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans (1856-1902)
John M. Parker, Governor of Louisiana
P.B.S. Pinchback, African American Governor of Louisiana for 35 days, 1872-1873
Louis Prima, bandleader
Stan Rice, poet
John Leonard Riddell, Melter and Refiner of Mint 1839-1848, Postmaster 1859-1862, inventor of the binocular microscope
Norman Treigle, opera star
Harold White, Renowned Neuro-Surgeon

They must have kicked him out of the graveyard at Lafayette #1 when they heard of his success at Franklin? (sorry about that one) Another Google search brought this reference to the 2004 book Leaders of the Lost Cause,
by Gary W. Gallagher, Joseph T. Glatthaar - 2004 - History - 294 pages

"He was buried in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans and later reinterred in the Hennen family vault in Metairie Cemetery."

Seems Metairie is the place to visit this man who was the last Confederate to receive the rank of General. The rest is history.