The slaughter, in point of numbers, resembled that of a brisk military engagement in the field.
The number killed outright was about forty.

The wounded exceeded one hundred and fifty, of whom perhaps one-third were severely injured, many of them mortally.

The city police of New Orleans aided the rioters.

General Sheridan, in command of the department, officially reported that "the killing was in a manner so unnecessary and atrocious as to compel me to say it was murder." The lamentable transaction was investigated by a committee of Congress, composed of Messrs.

Eliot of Massachusetts, Shellabarger of Ohio, and Boyer of Pennsylvania, the first two being Republicans, the last-named a Democrat.