Confederate Memorial Hall, Civil War museum in New Orleans, United States
Confederate Memorial Hall is a museum in New Orleans devoted to Civil War era artifacts and collections. The building contains uniforms, weapons, documents, and personal belongings that offer insight into the period.
The hall was completed in 1888 to designs by the firm Sully & Toledano, following the Richardsonian Romanesque style of the neighbouring Howard Library by H.H. Richardson. In 1891 philanthropist Frank T. Howard placed the building in the possession of the Louisiana Historical Association to house its collections. On 29 May 1893 more than 60,000 people filed past the exhumed body of Jefferson Davis as it lay in state here.
The collection holds personal items belonging to figures from the Civil War era, showing how people lived during that time. These objects help visitors connect with individual stories and everyday details from this historical period.
The museum stands on Camp Street between the two Ogden Museum of Southern Art buildings, so visitors pass outdoors around Memorial Hall to move between them. A connecting tunnel through the Memorial Hall basement was agreed in 2003 but never built. The entrance faces Camp Street, near the Lee Circle streetcar stop.
On 29 May 1893 the exhumed body of Confederate President Jefferson Davis lay in state in the hall, where more than 60,000 people came to mourn before it was moved to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. The building also sits between the two Ogden Museum of Southern Art buildings, a layout that fueled a long ownership dispute.
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