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See page 225, Note 31, The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Women’s Story of Rebellion, Nannie Haskins Williams

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On the 20th of the same February [1862] the [New Orleans] City Council raised an extraordinary committee on public safety from the body of inhabitants at large, consisting of sixty members, for the "purpose of co-operating with the Confederate and State authorities in devising means for the defense of the city and its approaches." This will appear from the exhibit marked E, a published newspaper copy of the resolution raising such committee. [See below]

Resolved, That the following-named citizens be, and they are, appointed a committee to be styled Committee on Public Safety, for the purpose of co-operating with the Confederate and State authorities in devising means for the defense of the city of New Orleans and its approaches.

Resolved further, That the Committee on City Defense appointed by the Common Council be, and they are hereby, added to the aforesaid Committee on Public Safety.

Resolved further, That said Committee on Public Safety shall be composed of the following-named citizens, viz: William Freret, M. Musson, Dr. G. W. Campbell, Charles Cavaroe, Wm. Henderson, Jas. P. Freret, Samuel Jamison, Captain Wm. Whann, Dr. B. H. Moss, R. C. Cummings, Captain P. Marcy, Fred. Durrive, Chas. Devbigny, R. M. Davis, R. Gardere, A. D. Kelly, P. Wilby, W. C. C. Claiborne, G. Leroy, Valcour Labarre, Jules Cassard, John Pemberton, John Goodrich, John M. Bach, Thos. Hunton, Geo. C. Laurason, Dr. D. W. Brickell, John A. Stevenson, Robt. Conway, H. T. Lonsdale, I. N. Marks, W. A. Johnson, Gerard Stith, D. O. Robin, JNO. B. Leefe, H. Beebe, L. E. Forstall, S. P. Delabarre, M. J. Buyac, P. E. Bonford, Dr. Rushton, Walter Cox, Thompson Greenfield, Gabriel Deferiet, Felix Forstall, A. Delassus, S. O. Nelson, Moses Greenwood, Wilhelmus Bogart, John Youenes, J. P. Harrison, Fergus Gardere, Martin Gordon, John M. Nugent, P. N. Wood, L. F. Generes, E. Jones McCall, B. Buisson, John Cornmuny, L. H. Pilie, A. S. Phelps, J. A. D"Hemecourt, Louis Lurgi.

S. P. DELABARRE,
President pro tem. Board of Aldermen.

J. MAGIONI,
President Board of Assistant Aldermen.

Approved February 20, 1862.
JOHN T. MONROE,

Mayor.
OR Ser. 3, Vol. 2, Ser. 123, pp. 722, 728/9