CAMP PARAPET - CIVIL WAR FORT en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Parapet#Cemetery_site en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Parapet UPDATED POST Camp Parapet was a Civil War fortification at Shrewsbury,Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, a bit more than a mile upriver from the current city limits of New Orleans. Camp Parapet was a large site with a blacksmith, grocery, and chapel. Camp Parapet also was a very large contraband camp, where large numbers of former slaves sought refuge. They were hired on as laborers, assistants, and many joined the service. They were fed and housed in the camp. All the slaves of the nearby plantations journeyed to Camp Parapet. Soldiers who died of illness or injury at Camp Parapet were buried in the posts cemetery. In 1867-68, the graves of Union troops were moved from civilian graveyards and those of various other camps (including Camp Parapet) to Chalmette National Cemetery. Former slaves were buried in the camp‘s cemetery, Shrewsbury (Camp Parapet) Cemetery, the site of the camps cemetery. The only remaining structure of the fortification is the powder magazine where ammunition was stored, of brick enclosed in an earth mound. It is located off Causeway Boulevard near the American Legion Post 267, preserved in a small park. Pictured below: Parapet Powder Magazine, inside of Powder Magazine, and map location of Camp Parapet & Cemetary.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:16:26 +0000
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