Confederate Memorial Hall

This is a museum of the Confederacy, a government founded to defend slavery, filled largely by veterans' gifts. It holds more than 5,000 items, among them effects of generals Braxton Bragg and P. G. T. Beauregard and over 140 flags, and it bills itself as the second-largest Confederate collection after Richmond's. The hall was also a property fight. In 1930 Governor Huey Long arranged for the neighboring library to store books in its basement; in the 2000s the University of New Orleans won title, until a 2003 compromise left the museum in place.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.9 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 1.0 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 1.1 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 1.1 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• Margaret's Place and Walk / Lower Garden District — steps away
• Touro Infirmary — 0.4 mi
• Bank's Arcade — 0.5 mi
• Mass Lynching in New Orleans / Racial Violence in America — 0.5 mi