Young-Sanders Center for the Study
of the
War Between the States in Louisiana
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Microfilm
Special Collections
William T. Shinn Memorial Library
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Manuscript Resources
On the
War Between the States in
Louisiana
(Acknowledgement page 148)
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Acknowledgement
A
Adams, Israel L. and Family Papers, Mss. 3637, 1813-1890 [Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi; also Arkansas] Location: Reel 1; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Israel L. Adams (1801-1860) was a merchant and farmer of Natchez, Mississippi. He had six children, Harriet Catharine, Mary Eliza, Franklin Oliver “Frank,” Orlander Percival, Marey, and Laura. Frank Adams and his cousins, James and Theodore, fought in the Confederate Army. The Adams family was associated with the Zingline and Shupan families.
This collection consists of 505 items and one manuscript volume. Items include correspondence, bills, receipts, and printed items. Most of the correspondence was written after 1860. Letters written by the Adams children and other members of the Adams, Zingline, and Shupan families describe the Civil War in Arkansas and Mississippi; battles at Baker’s Creek (Champion’s Hill), Atlanta, Georgia, and Vicksburg, Mississippi; local news; illnesses; and deaths. Letters from Orlander P. Adams describe student life at Mississippi College. Other items in the collection include slave bills of sale, Confederate currency, the amnesty oath of Lewis Zingline, home remedies, and papers related to German immigrants. Confederate States Army units documented include the 22nd Mississippi Regiment and the 126th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.
A list of omissions from Israel L. Adams and Family Papers, Mss.3637, 1813-1890, is provided on Reel 1, Frame 0340. Omitted items consist of Papers, 1813-1858 and 1868-1890.
0006 Introductory Materials. 13 frames.
0019 Folder 29, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1859. 37
Frames.
0056 Folder 30, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1860. 34
Frames.
0090 Folder 31, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1861. 44
Frames.
0134 Folder 32, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1862. 21
Frames.
0155 Folder 33, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1863. 29
Frames.
0184 Folder 34, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1864. 43
Frames.
0227 Folder 35, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1865. 33
Frames.
0260 Folder 36, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1866. 38
Frames.
0298 Folder 37, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1867. 25
Frames.
0323 Imprints, 1837-1862. 17 frames.
0340 List of Omissions from Israel L. Adams and Family
Papers, Mss. 3637, 1813-1890. 1 frame.
Aiken, Henry T. Papers, 1862-1864, 1884, and 1899 [Louisiana; also Massachusetts] Location: Reel 23 Confederate Military Manuscripts, University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of family and Civil War correspondence of Henry Aiken. Included is material relating to hospital conditions and camp life. Aiken served in a Massachusetts artillery battery and took part in the attack on Port Hudson, Louisiana, and in the Red River Campaign.
0715 Introductory Materials. 2 frames.
0717 Correspondence, June 15, 1862- September 26,
1864. 45 frames.
0762 Correspondence, August 21- September 24, 1884,
[Also 1887 and 1889].
Alexander-Snodgrass Letters, Mss. 1767, 1863-1864 [Bristol, Tennessee; also Georgia] Location: Reel 18; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of three items, letters, 1863-1864, of Alexander Snodgrass, a major in the Quartermaster’s Department, 35th Alabama Regiment. The letters tell of procuring salt for the Confederate States Army near Bristol, Tennessee, and wheat near Atlanta, Georgia. Letters comment on skirmishes commanded by Gen. Humphrey Marshall in the area of Bristol, Tennessee, and on the Battle of Resaca, Georgia.
0180 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0184 Letters, 1863-1864. 9 frames.
Allen, William M. Correspondence, Mss. 2287, 791, 1858-1863 [Holmesville, Pike County, Mississippi] Location: Reel 1; Confederate Military Manuscripts Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
William M. Allen (b. 1832 or 1833) was a farmer of Holmesville, Pike County, Mississippi. His sister, Letty, and her husband, John Houston, owned a farm in Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana. Both William and his brother, Felix, were Confederate soldiers in the Mississippi Volunteers.
This collection consists of twenty-two items. Pre-Civil War letters from John Houston discuss crops, weather, farmland, Houston’s advocacy of secession, and local social affairs. Civil War letters from various individuals to William M. Allen describe skirmishes in Kentucky and Louisiana, camp life and conditions, duties, and war news, such as the shelling of Port Hudson, Louisiana. Family affairs, illnesses and remedies, and attendance at the New Orleans, Louisiana, School of Medicine are additional topics of discussion in the correspondence. Correspondence of 12 December 1862 includes a poem written from a soldier, William M. Allen, to his wife entitled “The Dream,” describing his vision of her and hopes for an end to war and separation.
0341 Introductory Materials. 9 frames.
0350 Folder 1, Correspondence, 1858-1863. 46 frames.
0396 Folder 2, Typewritten Copies, 1858-1863. 48
Frames.
Amacker, Obadiah Pearson Family Papers, Mss. 1604, 1861-1959 [East Fecliciana, St. Helena, and West Feliciana Parishes, Louisiana]. Location: Reel 1; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
The Amacker family settled in the Florida parishes of Louisiana in the early nineteenth century. Obadiah Pearson Amacker (1838-1910) rose to the rank of acting colonel in the 3rd (Wingfield’s) Regiment, CSA Cavalry. He married Abigail Means Kent in 1864. Following his discharge in 1865, the family moved to Greensburg, Louisiana, where Obadiah practiced law.
This collection includes a Civil War diary kept by Abigail (Kent) Amacker that describes life on the home front in the Florida parishes of Louisiana. A list, 1861, of the officers and men of the first company to leave St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, as part of the 4th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry, and Confederate records transcribed from the Louisiana State Library Commission document the service of the Amacker family in the Civil War. A printed pamphlet, 1959, contains genealogical records of the Amacker family from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
0444 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0447 Folder 1, Papers, 1861-1865. 7 frames.
0454 Folder 2, Papers, 1959. 25 frames.
0479 Abigail Means (Kent) Amacker, Diary, 1862-1865.
32 frames.
Andry, Michel Thomassin and Family Papers, Mss. 1318, 1840-1882 [St. John the Baptist and St. Charles Parishes, Louisiana] Location: Reel 1; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Michel Thomassin Andry (1811-ca. 1871) owned and operated sugar plantations in St. John the Baptist and St. Charles parishes, Louisiana. His first wife was Martha Henriette Boudousquie and his second was Marie Rosa Haydel (1833-ca. 1877). He was the father of five children. After selling his plantations, he moved to New Orleans, where he lived until his death.
This collection consists of 199 items arranged in three series. The collection consists primarily of personal correspondence, legal documents, and business papers. Most of the letters, many of which are in French, are addressed to Marie Rosa (Haydel) Andry from her brothers, Edouard C. Haydel (1835-1875) and Amelius M. Haydel, and include descriptions of various aspects of their participation in the Civil War. The Battle of Shiloh, skirmishes at Camp Beauregard near Mayfield, Kentucky, and the Kentucky campaign are mentioned. Other correspondence includes letters to and from Charles G. Andry, son of Michel T. Andry. Letters from Charles Andrews Johnson (1818-1896), New Orleans attorney and close family friend, concern business matters and his travels. Other letters tell of personal and financial difficulties suffered during the later way years and after the war. In addition to extensive documents relating to the disputed sale of Michel T. Andry’s plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish, the legal papers include a will, a petition to sell slaves, oaths of allegiance, and plat maps showing Andry’s property holdings. Business papers include receipts for taxes, receipts for goods and services, cancelled checks, promissory notes, and travel expenses.
0511 Introductory Materials. 19 frames.
0530 Box 1, Folder 1, Correspondence, 1849-1862. 41
Frames.
0571 Box 1, Folder 2, Correspondence, 1863- 1864. 68 frames.
0639 Box 1, Folder 3, Correspondence, 1865-1875, and
1882. 61 frames.
0700 Box 1, Folder 4, Legal Papers, 1840-1841, 1843,
1857, 1862, 1865, 1870, and undated. 36 frames.
0736 Box 1, Folder 5, Business and Financial Papers,
1852, 1857-1865, and 1869-1872. 29 frames.
0765 Box 1, Folder 6, Business and Financial Papers,
1873-1879 and Undated 40 frames.
Anonymous Letters, Mss. 1032, 1864-1865 [New Dalton, Georgia, and Natchez, Mississippi] Location: Reel 1; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of two items, anonymous letters, 1864-1865. Items include a soldier’s letters to his sister written from the headquarters of the 4th Battalion, Louisiana Volunteers (infantry), wintering at New Dalton, Georgia, relating personal news, 14 February 1864, and from Natchez, Mississippi, describing the reception he received upon his return from the service and his adjustment to civilian life, 10 December 1865. The letters are signed by Rob [otherwise unidentified] to his sister May [otherwise unidentified] in western Virginia.
0805 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0809 Letters, 1864-1865. 9 frames.
Archord, M. H. Drawing, Mss. 893, 1931 [East Baton Rouge, Louisiana] Location: Reel 1; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of one item, a map, drawn from memory by M.H. Archord in 1931. The map depicts an area on the boundary of East Baton Rouge Parish and Livingston Parish, Louisiana, along the Amite River between Denham Springs on the south and Knox and Pierre Place on the north. The map indicates that a Civil War skirmish or other war-related incident took place in this area in 1864.
0001 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0004 Drawing, 1931. 2 frames.
Arnold, Thomas Letter, Mss. 3220, 1862 [Mississippi and Louisiana] Location: Reel 1; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of two items, including a letter, 26 April 1862, from Lt. Thomas Arnold to Capt. J.K. Mitchell of the Confederate States Navy, written from the towboat Landis describing an action in which he captured and then lost the Federal steamer Resolute. His vessel was towed by the Confederate steamer Defiance and was then fired upon by Federal steamers and rendered inoperable. Included is a list of night signals for the fleet, probably Confederate.
N.B. Related collections among the holdings of the Virginia Historical Society include Mss3M6943a. John Kirkwood Mitchell Papers, 1862-1865, included in UPA’s Confederate Military Manuscripts, Series A.
0818 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0822 Letters, Mss. 26 April 1862. 4 frames.
Avery Family Papers, 1796-1924, Iberia Parish, Louisiana. Location: Reel 10, Antebellum Southern Plantations.
This collection contains correspondence and records of the Marsh and Avery families of the Petite Anse Island Plantation, later Avery Island, near New Iberia in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, and of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Prominent family members were Dudley Avery (d. 1816), medical officer of the Drafted Militia in New Orleans, 1814-1816; his son, Daniel Dudley Avery (1810-1879), lawyer in Baton Rouge, state senator, judge, and sugar planter; John Craig Marsh (1789-1857), who originally acquired Petite Anse Island Plantation; his son, George Marsh (d. 1859); and his daughter Sarah Craig Marsh (1818-1878), who married Daniel Dudley Avery in 1837.
Included are correspondence and financial and legal records, dated 1817-1895. Over half of the collection consists of financial and legal papers relating to the operation of the Petite Anse Island sugar plantation and salt mines. These include plantation accounts, bills of sale for slaves (some bills executed in New Jersey), bills for merchandise, promissory notes, and receipts. Correspondence includes letters from Dudley Avery serving as a medical officer in New Orleans during and after the War of 1812; letters, 1828-1845, between John C. Marsh and George Marsh at Petite Anse and their relatives in New York and Rahway, New Jersey, about family and plantation affairs; letters, 1846-1847, about life in New Orleans and other matters; and family letters from Baton Rouge and other locations in the 1850s. Correspondence after the Civil War is chiefly to and from Daniel Dudley Avery and his business associates about the sale mines and plantation operations and between Avery and members of his family about plantation and personal affairs, including the struggle to hold onto the family property.
Biographical Note
There are two prominent families in these papers, the Marsh family and the Avery family; they were united by the marriage of Sarah Craig Marsh (1818-1878) to Daniel Dudley Avery (1810-1879) in 1837.
The parents of Daniel Dudley Avery were Captain Dudley Avery (d. 1816) and Mary Ann Browne (fl. 1807-1828). In 1807 Capt. Dudley Avery of Onondaga County, New York, went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he met and married Mary Ann Browne, daughter of the Reverend John W. Browne. The Averys moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Captain Avery worked as a physician. He served as a member of the legislature and, in 1813, was appointed as justice of the peace of East Baton Rouge Parish.
The parents of Sarah Craig Marsh were John Craig Marsh (1789-1857) and his first wife, Eliza Ann Marsh (d. 1826). John Craig Marsh was born at Cherry Bank Farm, Rahway, New Jersey, on July 28, 1789. He acquired Petite Anse Island Plantation, later known as Avery Island, ten miles south of New Iberia in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, probably in early 1818. Petite Anse Island is a salt dome whose highest point rises approximately 180 feet out of the surrounding marsh. The soil is fertile and Marsh operated a sugar plantation.
John C. Marsh took with him to Louisiana his wife, Eliza Ann Baldwin Marsh, his older son, John C. Marsh, Jr., his daughter, Sarah Craig Marsh (referred to as “Sally”), and several other relatives of uncertain relationship. He left George Marsh, his second son, with his parents in Rahway, New Jersey. Two other daughters, Margaret (later Mrs. Ashbel Burnham Henshaw), and Eliza Ann (later Mrs. William Robertson), were born on Avery Island. John C. Marsh, Jr., died in 1820 and Eliza Ann Baldwin Marsh died in 1826. After his first wife’s death, Marsh married Euphemia Craig (fl. 1820s), widow of his close friend and business partner, William Stone (fl. 1819-1827).
John C. Marsh was assisted in operating his sugar plantation by his second son, George Marsh (d. 1859), who appears to have been the primary manager of the plantation during the 1840s. In 1849 John Marsh sold his interest in the plantation to two of his sons-in-law, Daniel Dudley Avery and Ashbel Burnham Henshaw. He eventually returned to New Jersey and died there in 1857.
Daniel Dudley Avery was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on April 12, 1810. After his graduation from Yale College in 1830, he studied law with Thomas Gibbs Morgan and was admitted to the bar in 1832. He settled in Baton Rouge and built up an extensive law practice. Also in 1832, he was elected to the General Assembly as the representative from Baton Rouge and re-elected two years later, serving a total of four years. He served as prosecuting attorney for the Florida District and was elected Circuit Judge in 1860. He resigned this position in 1862 when New Orleans was taken by Union forces.
Avery held joint ownership of Petite Anse Island Plantation with George Marsh and Ashbel Burhnam Henshaw. In 1854, Avery bought out Henshaw and controlled a two-thirds interest.
Daniel Dudley Avery and Sarah Marsh had six children: Mary Eliza (b. 1838), Sarah Marsh (b. 1840), Dudley (b. 1842), John Marsh (1844-1891), George Marsh (b. 1846), and Margaret (b. 1848).
During the Civil War, Avery retired first to Petite Anse Island and then to Texas to avoid Union forces. His son, Dudley, enlisted in the Delta Rifles from Baton Rouge and fought under Albert Sidney Johnston in the Shiloh campaign. He was wounded and, after recuperating, joined the Confederate forces west of the Mississippi under the command of Lt. General Richard Taylor as a member of the 18th Louisiana Regiment. Avery’s son John deferred going into the army to attempt to produce salt for the Confederacy at Petite Anse. In 1862 he discovered the rock salt that lies under the island and heavily mined it for the Confederacy. John Marsh Avery later enlisted in the army.
After the war, both Dudley and John Marsh Avery became active in Louisiana politics. Dudley served as president of the Police Jury of Iberia Parish, state senator, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention. John served as state senator. Dudley married Mary Louise Richardson while John remained a bachelor.
Of the other children, Mary Eliza married Edmund Mcllhenny and Sarah Marsh married Paul B. Leeds; Margaret Henshaw also married, although the name of her husband is not known. George died as a baby.
N.B. Biographical information was adapted from a sketch written in 1951 by Joseph S. Clark, descendant of the Averys.
Omissions
A list of omissions from the Avery Family Papers is provided on reel 11, frame 1107, and consists of Subseries 1.8-1.9, Correspondence, 1866-1916, and Series 3, Pamphlets and Clippings, 1856-1879.
N. B. Omitted Materials will be included in a subsequent UPA series, Records of Southern Plantations from 1866 to 1920.
A related collection among the holdings of the Southern Historical Collection is the Eliza Ann (Marsh) Robertson Papers, which is also included in this edition. Material regarding postbellum salt mining on the Avery plantations may be found in the Chouteau Collection among the holdings of the Missouri Historical Society which is proposed for inclusion in UPA’s microfilm series of Western history collections.
Introductory Materials:
0325 Introductory Materials. 20 frames.
Series 1. Correspondence and Financial, Legal, and Miscellaneous Material, 1796-1951 and undated:
Subseries 1.1: 1796- 1816
0345 Description of Subseries 1.1 1 frame.
0346 Folder 1, 1796- 1813. 15 frames.
0361 Folder 2, 1814. 17 frames.
0388 Folder 3, 1815. 37 frames.
0425 Folder 4, 1816. 25 frames.
Subseries 1.2: 1817-1827
0450 Description of Subseries 1.2. 1 frame.
0451 Folder 5, 1817- August 1818. 34 frames.
0485 Folder 6, September- December 1818. 33 frames.
0518 Folder 7, 1819-1823. 29 frames.
0547 Folder 8, 1824-1826. 17 frames.
0564 Folder 9, 1827. 15 frames.
Subseries 1.3: 1828-1835
0579 Description of Subseries 1.3. 1 frame.
0580 Folder 10, 1828. 38 frames.
0618 Folder 11, 1829-1832. 19 frames.
0637 Folder 12, 1833-1835. 21 frames.
Subseries 1.4: 1836-1845
0658 Description of Subseries 1.4. 1 frame.
0659 Folder 13, 1836-1839. 47 frames.
0706 Folder 14, 1840. 26 frames.
0732 Folder 15, 1841-1844. 30 frames.
0762 Folder 16, 1845. 21 frames.
Subseries 1.5: 1846-1847
0783 Description of Subseries 1.5. 1 frame.
0784 Folder 17, 1846. 47 frames.
0831 Folder 18, 1847. 32 frames.
Subseries 1.6: 1848-1860
0863 Description of Subseries 1.6. 1 frame.
0864 Folder 19, 1848. 14 frames.
0878 Folder 20, 1849. 36 frames.
0914 Folder 21, January- June 1850. 63 frames.
0987 Folder 22, July-December 1850. 69 frames.
REEL 11 Avery Family Papers cont.
Subseries 1.6: 1848-1860 cont.
0001 Folder 23, 1851. 75 frames.
0076 Folder 24, 1852. 34 frames.
0110 Folder 25, 1853-1854. 83 frames.
0193 Folder 26, 1855-1856. 62 frames.
0255 Folder 27, 1857-1858. 80 frames.
0335 Folder 28, 1859. 52 frames.
0387 Folder 29, January- August 1860. 52 frames.
0439 Folder 30, September- December 1860. 46
Frames.
Subseries 1.7: 1861-1865
0485 Description of Subseries 1.7 1 frame.
0486 Folder 31, 1861. 74 frames.
0560 Folder 32, 1862-1864. 47 frames.
0607 Folder 33, 1865. 128 frames.
Subseries 1.10: undated
0735 Description of Subseries 1.10. 1 frame.
0736 Folder 47, Undated. 83 frames.
Series 2. Volumes, 1829-1924 and Undated
0819 Description of Series 2. 1 frame.
0820 Folder 48, Volume 1, Daniel Dudley Avery, Notes
On “Chemistry and Natural Philosophy,” taken at Yale College, 1829. 21 frames.
0841 Folder 49, Volume 2, George Marsh, Plantation
Accounts, 1849 to 1859. 14 frames.
0855 Folder 50, Volume 3, Register of Visitors at Petite
Anse Island, dated 1859 to 1863. 16 frames.
0871 Folder 51, Volume 4, Register of Visitors at Petite
Anse Island, dated 1859 to 1863. 19 frames.
0890 Folder 52, Volume 5, John Marsh Avery, Ledger,
1864 and Undated. 15 frames.
0905 Folder 53, Volume 6, Daniel Dudley Avery,
Ledger, 1864 and Undated. 15 frames.
0916 Folder 54, Volume 7, List of Persons Who
Received Announcements of the Marriage of Sarah Marsh Avery to Paul B. Leeds, April 26, 1866. 77 frames.
0993 Folder 55, Volume 8, Accounts, Possibly at a
Plantation Store, 1866-1867. 82 frames.
1075 Folder 56, Volume 9, John Leeds Avery, Records
of Cane Weighed, 1924. 29 frames.
Series 4 Picture of Abraham Avery, Undated
1104 Description of Series 4. 1 frame.
1105 Folder P-3289/1, Undated. 2 frames.
Omissions
1107 List of Omissions from the Avery Family Papers. 1
frame.
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B
Baines, Henry Papers, Mss. 1209, 1796-1905 [West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana; also Kentucky and Tennessee] Location: Reel 1; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Henry Baines was a planter of Baines, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and a member of the London, England, Royal College of Surgeons. He married Emily McDermott and from this union produced George W. Baines, Edward Baines, and Antoinette D. Baines. Antoinette wed Isaac N. Maynard, manager of the New Orleans Clearing House Association.
This collection consists of papers of the Baines, McDermott, and Maynard families. Diverse topics are covered, including early landholdings in West Feliciana Parish, medical education in England, Confederate States Army service, and the cotton trade in New Orleans. Papers of Henry Baines’s father-in-law, Patrick McDermott, consist of Spanish land grants, land deeds, petitions for appointment of tutors for minor children, and other legal documents concerning McDermott’s estate. Papers of Isaac N. Maynard, Baines’s son-in-law, include family letters, 1838-1852, and an article, ca. 1884, on the Cotton Factors and Planters Exposition of New Orleans. Letters from Edward Baines describe Confederate military living conditions in the area of Columbus, Kentucky, in 1861 and comment on various military units and army maneuvers near Tullahoma, Tennessee, 1863.
A list of omissions from Henry Baines Papers, Mss. 1209, 1796-1905, is provided on Reel 1, Frame 0860. Omissions consist of Papers, 1796-1851 and 1870-1905.
0826 Introductory Materials. 11 frames.
0837 Folder 8, Papers, 1852, 1854, and 1858. 6
frames.
0843 Folder 9, Papers, 1861-1868. 14 frames.
0857 Folder 10, Papers, Undated. 3 frames.
0860 List of Omissions from Henry Baines Papers, Mss.
1209, 1796-1905. 1 frame.
Baldwin and Co. Records, 1879-1928, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana; Location: Reel 4; Records of Southern Plantations, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of several volumes of ledgers and accounts books from Baldwin and Company, the name of the plantation store of Old Johnson plantation in Baldwin, Louisiana. The first two volumes consist of records of purchases made at the store, many by agricultural laborers. There also records of purchases made at the store, many agricultural laborers. There are also records of sugar and molasses sales. Sugar production and sales are also recapitulated in Volume 4 and Volume 5. The last two volumes in the collection provide more opportunity to study sugar laborers. There are entries for wages paid to laborers and overseers and entries for cash advances.
0197 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0201 Volume 1, Ledger Accounts, 1879-1884. 123
frames. Major Topics: Store accounts; Labor
accounts; sugar and molasses sales.
0324 Volume 2, Index, Ledger D, 1880. 33 frames.
Major Topic: Store accounts.
0357 Volume 3, Receipt Book, 1895-1902. 127 frames.
Major Topic: Purchases made by Baldwin and Co.
from retail and wholesale stores and commission merchants.
0484 Volume 4, Cane Ledger, October-November 1900.
140 frames. Major Topic: Sugar production and sales.
0624 Volume 5, Recapitulation of Cane, 1900. 118
frames. Major Topic: Sugar production.
0742 Volume 6, General Farm Book with Indexes and
Payroll, 1927-1928. 52 frames. Major Topics: Labor accounts; cash advances; rice, indigo, cotton, and sugar production labor.
0794 Volume 7, Ledger Accounts, Payroll, 1927-1928.
46 frames. Major Topics: Labor accounts; cash advances; wages paid to overseers.
Ballinger, William Pitt Papers, 1816-1899 [Galveston, Houston, and Waco, Texas; also Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia] Location: Reel 1-10, Confederate Military Manuscripts, University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of correspondence, diaries, literary productions, business papers, legal papers, pamphlets, broadsides, newspaper clippings, maps, and a photograph. Items include papers produced and collected by Ballinger (1825-1888), soldier, Attorney, and businessman of Galveston. He began his law career at the close of the Mexican War (1846-1848), during which he served as adjutant under Albert Sidney Johnston. Ballinger served as U.S. district attorney for the Texas District and later opened his private law practice. Many of these papers relate to the financial and legal affairs of antebellum plantations in southeast Texas and Galveston businesses. A large number of papers document Ballinger’s service as Confederate States receiver for Galveston during the Civil War. His voluminous correspondence with Texan and Southern officials and with officers and men in Confederate service and his role in the negotiation of the surrender of Texas at the close of the war are also reflected here. His personal diary (1854-1886), which is accompanied by a typed transcript and an index, contains much information. Correspondents include Jefferson Davis, Josiah Gorgas, P. O. Hebert, Albert Sidney Johnston, John B. Magruder, and Edmund Kirby Smith.
A list of omissions from the William Pitt Ballinger Papers, 1816-, is provided on Reel 1, Frame 0023. Omissions include Papers, 1816-1858 and 1866-1899, and Diaries, 1854-1858 and 1868-1886.
Reel 1
0001 Introductory Materials. 22 frames.
0023 List of Omissions. 2 frames.
0025 Papers, January 1859. 120 frames.
0145 Papers, February 1859. 88 frames.
0233 Papers, March 1859. 126 frames.
0359 Papers, April 1859. 162 frames.
0521 Papers, May 1859. 111 frames.
0632 Papers, June 1859. 149 frames.
0781 Papers, July 1859. 86 frames.
0867 Papers, August 1859. 86 frames.
0966 Papers, September 1859. 132 frames.
Reel 2
0003 Papers, October 1859. 69 frames.
0072 Papers, November 1859. 127 frames.
0199 Papers, December 1859. 104 frames.
0303 Papers, Undated 1859. 284 frames.
0587 Papers, January 1860. 92 frames.
0679 Papers, February 1860. 117 frames.
0796 Papers, March 1-23, 1860. 220 frames.
Reel 3
0003 Papers, March 24-31, 1860. 84 frames.
0087 Papers, April 1860. 144 frames.
0231 Papers, May 1860. 139 frames.
0370 Papers, June 1860. 131 frames.
0501 Papers, July 1860. 179 frames.
0680 Papers, August 1860. 99 frames.
0779 Papers, September 1860. 111 frames.
0890 Papers, October 1860. 144 frames.
Reel 4
0003 Papers, November 1860. 119 frames.
0122 Papers, December 1860. 118 frames.
0240 Papers, Undated 1860. 229 frames.
0469 Papers, January 1861. 175 frames.
0644 Papers, February 1861. 57 frames.
0701 Papers, March 1861. 311 frames.
Reel 5
0003 Papers, April 1861. 316 frames.
0319 Papers, May 1861. 61 frames.
0380 Papers, July 1861. 73 frames.
0453 Papers, August-September 1861. 63 frames.
0516 Papers, October-November 1861. 113 frames.
0629 Papers, December 1861. 133 frames.
0762 Papers, Undated 1861. 92 frames.
0854 Papers, January 1862. 142 frames.
0996 Papers, February 1862. 55 frames.
Reel 6
0003 Papers, March 1862. 89 frames.
0092 Papers, April 1862. 62 frames.
0154 Papers, May 1862. 66 frames.
0220 Papers, June 1862. 62 frames.
0282 Papers, July 1862. 91 frames.
0373 Papers, August 1862. 63 frames.
0436 Papers, September 1862. 52 frames.
0488 Papers, October 1862. 46 frames.
0534 Papers, November 1862. 142 frames.
0676 Papers, December 1862. 86 frames.
0762 Papers, Undated 1862. 108 frames.
0870 Papers, January 1863. 119 frames.
0989 Papers, February 1863. 100 frames.
Reel 7
0003 Papers, March 1863. 85 frames.
0088 Papers, April 1863. 73 frames.
0161 Papers, May 1863. 84 frames.
0245 Papers, June 1863. 99 frames.
0344 Papers, July 1863. 109 frames.
0453 Papers, August 1863. 107 frames.
0560 Papers, September 1863. 109 frames.
0669 Papers, October 1863. 102 frames.
0771 Papers, November 1863. 68 frames.
0839 Papers, December 1863. 73 frames.
0912 Papers, Undated 1863. 124 frames.
Reel 8
0003 Papers, January 1864. 107 frames.
0110 Papers, February 1864. 50 frames.
0160 Papers, March 1864. 177 frames.
0337 Papers, April 1864. 144 frames.
0481 Papers, May 1864. 143 frames.
0624 Papers, June 1864. 135 frames.
0759 Papers, July 1864. 91 frames.
0850 Papers, August 1864. 110 frames.
0960 Papers, September 1864. 104 frames.
Reel 9
0003 Papers, October 1864. 86 frames.
0089 Papers, November 1864. 108 frames.
0197 Papers, December 1864. 102 frames.
0299 Papers, Undated 1864. 58 frames.
0357 Papers, January 1865. 90 frames.
0447 Papers, February 1865. 48 frames.
0495 Papers, March 1865. 69 frames.
0564 Papers, April 1865. 48 frames.
0612 Papers, May 1865. 65 frames.
0677 Papers, June 1865. 22 frames.
0699 Papers, July 1865. 43 frames.
0742 Papers, August 1865. 37 frames.
0779 Papers, September 1865. 62 frames.
0841 Papers, October 1865. 46 frames.
0887 Papers, November 1865. 45 frames.
0932 Papers, December 1865. 112 frames.
1044 Papers, Undated 1865. 56 frames.
Reel 10
0003 Diary, January 1 to December 31, 1859. 83
frames.
0086 Diary, January 1 to December 31, 1860. 171
frames.
0257 Diary, August 7, 1861, to February 22, 1862. 82
frames.
0339 Diary, February 23 to November 17, 1862. 102
frames.
0441 Diary, November 18, 1862, to October 20, 1864.
222 frames.
0663 Diary, October 26, 1864, to November 27, 1868.
260 frames.
Barber, M. W. and Durning, C. S. Diary, 1864 [Arkansas and Louisiana] Location: Reel 10: Confederate Military Manuscripts, University of Texas at Austin
Daily account of camp life and troop movements kept by Union Corporal Barber (1843-1864) from January 1, 1864, through April 7, 1864. After Barber’s death at Sabine Cross Roads, Louisiana, the account is resumed by Confederate Private Durning, who kept it from April 9, 1864, through December 31, 1864.
0923 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0926 Omissions List. 1 frame.
0927 Diary. 72 frames.
Barnes, William Henry Papers, 1847-1933 [Kaufman County, Texas] Location: Reel 23; Confederate Military Manuscripts, University of Texas at Austin
This collection contains Civil War correspondence by Barnes and includes material relating to camp life and hospital conditions. Barnes served in Colonel Lane’s Regiment, Texas Volunteers, Confederate Army. The collection also includes postwar correspondence, a diary from 1860, genealogical material, legal documents, deeds, election notices, and Confederate conscription legislation.
0802 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0805 Omissions List. 1 frame.
0806 Inventory. 1 frame.
0807 Correspondence, 1862-1863. 36 frames.
0843 Correspondence, 1891-1933. 26 frames.
0869 Diary, 1860. 9 frames.
0878 Genealogy. 22 frames.
0900 Legal Documents, 1857-1867. 39 frames.
0939 Legal Documents, 1868-1901. 62 frames.
1001 Literary Productions, 1867, 1872, and Undated. 6
frames.
1007 Notes and Memoranda, 1847-1861 and Undated.
7 frames.
1014 Printed Material; Invitations and Ticket, 1883
1886; Poems and Newspaper Clippings, Undated. 9 frames.
1023 [Untitled Folder—Deeds, Election Notices]. 14 frames.
1037 Cover Attachments [Conscription Materials]. 156
frames.
Barrow, Robert Ruffin Papers, 1857-1858. Terrebonne parish, Louisiana Location: Reel 2, Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations
Robert Ruffin (R.R.) Barrow was a sugar planter and canal operator in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. He owned six Terrebonne Parish plantations, including Residence, Myrtle Grove, and Caillou Grove, as well as plantations in Lafourche, Assumption, and Ascension Parishes, and in Texas.
This collection consists of a plantation journal kept by Residence Plantation manager Ephraim A. Knowlton and several overseers, including Robert P. Ford, George Bucknall, N.B. Holland, and Charles Lull. The journal contains slave records, details of sugar production, records of daily operations, and reports of conflicts between slaves and overseers and between Barrow and his overseers as well as reports of fugitive slaves. Slave records include slave lists, birth and death records, and mention of illnesses, tasks assigned, and items distributed to them.
This collection is most useful for studying the complex relationships between plantation owners and their overseers and the relationships between overseers, field slaves, and slave drivers. The journal also serves as an excellent source of information on slaves, containing extensive slave lists, accounts of resistance and punishments, and details of tasks assigned slaves. It provides only limited information on R.R. Barrow’s family life, though a few references to his children and friends do appear.
Biographical Note.
Robert Ruffin Barrow (b. 1798) was a sugar planter and canal operator in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. He was the oldest son of Bartholomew Barrow (d. 1852), a merchant at Fishing Creek, Halifax County, North Carolina, and Ascension Slatter Barrow. Bartholomew Barrow moved his family to West Feliciana Parish in 1820, where he settled on his estate, Afton Villa. Robert Barrow had two brothers, David Bennett and William Bennett Barrow, both of whom became planters. William lived with Robert until his death in 1842.
Robert Barrow (usually referred to as R. R. rather than Robert) owned six Terrebonne Parish plantations: Residence, Caillou Grove, Honduras, Myrtle Grove, Crescent Farm, and Point Farm. In addition, he owned Oak Grove Plantation in Lafourche Parish, Locust Grove Plantation in Assumption Parish; Donaldsonville Plantation in Ascension Parish; and several plantations in Texas. Barrow also operated the Barataria and Lafourche Canal Company Number.2.
In 1850 Barrow married Volumnia Washington Hunley, and they had two children, Volumnia Roberta (b. 1854) and Robert Ruffin, Jr. (b. 1858).
0001 Introductory Materials. 8 frames.
Series 1
0009 Folder 1, Robert Ruffin Barrow, Plantation
Journal, 1857-1858. 250 frames.
0259 Folder 2, Typescript of Plantation Journal, 1857
1858. 289 frames.
Barry, James Buckner Papers, 1847-1917 [Bosque County, Camp Cooper, Fort Belknap, and Walnut Springs, Texas] Location: Reel 24; Confederate Military Manuscripts, University of Texas at Austin
This collection contains the papers of Barry (1821-1906), Indian fighter, sheriff, soldier, Texas Ranger, legislator, and People’s Party candidate for state treasurer (1898). The papers are especially useful for documenting Barry’s military and law enforcement activities in defense of the frontier against Indian attack. During the Civil War, he organized a company to take the frontier posts from Federal garrison, and after being promoted to lieutenant colonel, he commanded Fort Belknap and Camp Cooper in north-central Texas. Papers include correspondence muster rolls, battalion reports, general orders, special orders, account papers, diary reminiscences, and autograph books. Correspondents include John P. Baylor; Albert S. Burleson; Texas Governors Sam Houston and Francis R. Lubbock; and Confederate Generals Henry E. McCulloch, John B. Magruder, and Edmund Kirby Smith.
0001 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
0006 Omissions List. 1 frame.
0007 Inventory. 1 frame.
0008 Correspondence, 1861-1862. 100 frames.
0108 Correspondence, 1863. 124 frames.
0232 Correspondence, 1864. 54 frames.
0286 Correspondence, 1865-1868 and ca. 1877-1891
30 frames.
0316 Confederate Army Orders, 1861-1866 and
Undated. 206 frames.
0522 Confederate Army Personnel Records, 1860
1863. 40 frames.
0562 Confederate Army Personnel Records, 1864. 35
frames.
0597 Confederate Army Personnel Records, January
March 1865. 15 frames.
0612 Confederate Army Personnel Records, April- May
1865, 1866, Fragments, and Undated. 53 frames.
0665 Confederate Army Account Papers, 1856, 1861
1865, and Undated. 78 frames.
0743 Account Papers, 1864. 2 frames.
0745 Journal, ca. 1850-1865. 71 frames.
0816 [Untitled Folder—Muster Rolls, Company
Reports]. 269 frames.
1085 Muster Roll, Company C (Cattle Brands Included).
69 frames.
1154 [Untitled Folder—Ordnance Reports, Monthly Post
Returns, Muster Rolls]. 66 frames.
Batchelor, Albert A. Papers, Mss. 919, 1852-1930 [Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana; also Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virginia] Location: Reel 1; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Albert Agrippa Batchelor (1845-1905) was a planter of Red River Landing, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Batchelor also managed several other plantations and served a term in the Louisiana State Legislature, 1888-1892. Albert A. Batchelor and two of his brothers served in the Confederate Army.
This collection consists of the papers, 1852-1930 (bulk 1870-1900), of Albert A. Batchelor. The collection includes personal and business papers, correspondence, diaries, and account books pertaining principally to local events and the operation and management of several plantations in Pointe Coupee Parish, including Bella Vista Plantation, Lakeside Plantation, Phoenix Plantation, Highland Plantation, and Normandy Plantation. Early letters among Batchelor family members describe conditions at Kentucky Military Institute and the Silliman Female Collegiate Institute and mention events such as African American slave insurrections in Natchez, Mississippi, 1863-1864, and military operations. Several letters describe Civil War battles including the 1862 Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, and the 1863 battles of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Chancellorsville, Virginia. Letters of several soldiers document service in the 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment.
A list of omissions from Albert A. Batchelor Papers, Mss. 919, 1852-1930, is provided on Reel 2, Frame 0797. Omissions consist of Papers and Volumes, 1866-1930.
0861 Introductory Materials. 46 frames.
0907 Folder 1, Papers, 1855-1859. 60 frames.
Reel 2
0001 Folder 2, Papers, January- May 1860. 32 frames.
0033 Folder 3, Papers, June- December 1860. 79
frames.
0112 Folder 4, Papers, 1861. 55 frames.
0167 Folder 5, Papers, 1862. 18 frames.
0185 Folder 6, Papers, 1863. 71 frames.
0256 Folder 7, Papers, January- July 1864. 100 frames.
0356 Folder 8, Papers, August-December 1864. 62
frames.
0418 Folder 9, Papers, 1865. 113 frames.
0531 Volume 8, Charles I. Batchelor, Diary, 1860 and
1864. 50 frames.
0581 Volume 9, Albert A. Batchelor, Diary, 1865-1867.
31 frames.
0612 Volume 10, Albert A. Batchelor, Ledger, 1865
1869. 54 frames
0666 Volume, 19, Albert A. Batchelor, Memorandum
Book, 1853-1859. 13 frames.
0679 Volume 20, Albert A. Batchelor, Memorandum
Book, 1859. 18 frames.
0697 Volume 21, Albert A. Batchelor, Memorandum
Book, 1860 and 1865. 19 frames.
0716 Volume 23, Albert A. Batchelor, Memorandum
Book, 1867-1869. 41 frames.
0757 Volume 33, Albert A. Batchelor, Notebook, 1860.
12 frames.
0769 Volume 34, Albert A. Batchelor, Notebook, 1861.
15 frames.
0784 Volume 35, Albert A. Batchelor, Notebook, 1861
and 1865. 13 frames.
0797 List of Omissions from Albert A. Batchelor Papers,
Mss. 919, 1852-1930. 1 frame.
Bayside Plantation Records, 1846-1866, Iberia and St. Landry Parishes, Louisiana, Location: Reel 6; Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War.
Description of the Collection: This collection consists of a two-volume plantation journal of Francis Dubose Richardson and others, apparently including overseers, about Bayside Plantation, Iberia Parish, Louisiana, 1846-1852 and 1860-1862, and a plantation on Bayou Mallet, near Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, 1863-1866. Entries, made on a daily basis, consist of brief comments on sugar growing, plantation life, the condition of slaves and other plantation workers, brick making, fuel wood cutting, foodstuffs, and livestock. There are references to the division of labor between men and women and to social life and customs in the area. Entries in December 1862 relate to moving from Bayside Plantation to Bayou Mallet, and there are references to contracts with freedmen in 1865 and 1866. There are also short personal financial and supply accounts and other brief notes appended to each journal.
Biographical Note. Francis DuBose Richardson was born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 1812, but came to Louisiana with his father, John Gaulden Richardson (1785-1856), and family in the 1820s. Francis DuBose Richardson became a planter and state legislator, married Bethia F. Liddell (d.1852), and in January 1846, moved with his family, hired hands, and slaves to set up Bayside Plantation on Bayou Teche, Iberia Parish, Louisiana. The Richardsons were given assistance at Bayside by other Richardson and Liddell family members, most of who are referred to in the plantation journals by initials only: included are John Gaulden Richardson and Bethia’s father, Judge Moses Liddell.
After Bethia F. (Liddell) Richardson died in 1852, Francis DuBose Richardson sent their youngest daughter, Margaret to live with relatives. Their other children, Frank Liddell Richardson (fl. 1850s-1869) and Bethia C. Richardson (fl. 1840s-1870s), remained at Bayside, where they received a tutorial education until the Civil War. In October 1861, Frank left to join the Confederate army, and Bethia C. left to attend the Franklin Seminary in Franklin, Louisiana. The date of Francis DuBose Richardson’s death is unclear, though some sources indicate that he died in 1858.
Bayside Plantation continued to operate until mid-December 1862, when everyone was moved to a plantation “in the woods on Bayou Mallet,” in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, in response to the arrival in the area of the Union army. The Richardson children visited both the Bayou Mallet and Bayside plantations at various times during the war, as did friends and relatives. Both Confederate and Union forces operated in the area, and in 1863, most of the plantation slaves sought refuge for a time in New Iberia. When the war ended, attempts were made to contract with freedmen and other labor to work on the plantations, with varying success.
0307 Introductory Materials. 11 frames.
0318 Folder 1, Volume 1, 1846-1852. 240 frames.
0558 Folder 2, Volume 2, 1860-1866. 196 frames.
0754 Folder 3, Typed Transcription of Volume 2,
February 27, 1860- October 25, 1862. 154 frames.
0908 Folder 4, Typed Transcription of Volume 2,
October 26, 1862- April 4, 1866. 168 frames.
Beall, William N.R. Telegram, Confederate States Army Collection, Mss. 3178, 1862 [Baton Rouge, Louisiana] Location: Reel 3; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Gen. William Nelson Rector Beall (1825-1883) was a West Point graduate. He commanded the military camp at Port Hudson, Louisiana, when it surrendered to Union forces on 8 July 1863.
This collection consists of one item, a telegram, 9 September 1862, from Gen. William N. R. Beall to Gen. Ruggles. The telegram relates that the Union ironclad Essex passed Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the previous day, and Beall requests permission to send one of his artillery batteries to Baton Rouge to replace a damaged battery.
0001 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0004 Telegram, 9 September 1862. 3 frames.
Beatty, Taylor Papers, 1780-1849, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana; also Virginia and Kentucky, Location: Reel 1; Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Description of the Collection
Taylor Beatty of Thibodaux, Louisiana, was a Confederate military judge, sugar planter, lawyer, and judge. He was the son of Charlotte Beatty (1810-1847) and the grandson of Walker Reid (b. 1783).
Items in the collection include a volume that belonged to Walker Reid, containing Kentucky land entries, genealogical information on the Belt, Berkly, Blincoe, Botts, Gaines, Newman, Reid, Ward, and Wigginton families, and spiritual reflections. Also included is a diary of Charlotte Beatty for 1843 documenting daily activities involving her house and garden and visits with her friends.
Also included in the original collection, but not here, are eighteenth-century land grants. Omitted materials are chiefly diaries of Taylor Beatty documenting his activities during the Civil War as friend of General Braxton Bragg, judge of the military court of Lt. Gen. Hardee’s Corps and participant in the battles of Santa Rosa Island, Florida, October 1861; Shiloh, April 1862; Murfreesboro, Tennessee, December 1862; Chickamauga, Georgia, September 1863; Resaca, Georgia, May 1864; and Franklin, Tennessee, November 1864. Also documented are in years 1883-1917 when he was a sugar planter in Louisiana and owned the plantations Dixie and Vivian, and a lawyer who attended court in Louisiana at Houma, Napoleonville, Thibodaux, and New Orleans.
The collection is arranged as follows; Series 1, Land Grants and other Loose Papers [not included]; Series 2, Walker Reid Volume; Series 3, Diary of Charlotte Beatty; Series 4. Diaries of Taylor Beatty [not included]; and Series 5, Typed Transcriptions of Series 2, 3, and 4 [included in part with Series 2 and 3].
Biographical Note
The chief figure in these papers is Taylor Beatty (1837-ca. 1917), son of Charlotte Beatty (1810-1847). He was a Confederate veteran, lawyer, and judge, and spent most of his life in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. He married Fannie Pugh (fl. 1883-1917), and had four children: Kate (fl. 1880s), Charlton (b. 1869), Charlotte (b. 1883), and Taylor (fl. 1891-1917). He owned Dixie and Vivian plantations.
Charlotte Beatty also lived in Thibodaux. She was the daughter of Walker Reid (b. 1783), who moved to Kentucky in 1804 and settled in the town of Washington in Mason County. It appears that he moved to Kentucky from Virginia.
Omissions
A list of omissions from the Taylor Beatty Papers is provided on Reel 1, Frame 0355, and includes Series 1, Land Grants and Other Loose Papers, 1733-1834 and undated; Series 4, Diaries of Taylor Beatty, 1861-1917; and Series 5, Typed Transcriptions of Series 2, 3, and 4 [included in part with Series 2 and 3].
Reel 1
0001 Introductory Materials. 14 frames.
0015 Description of Series 2. 1 frame.
0016 Folder 2, Volume 1, 1780-1849. 117 frames.
0133 Typed Transcription of Volume 1. 104 frames.
0237 Description of Series 3. 1 frame.
0238 Folder 3, Volume 2, 1843. 70 frames.
0308 Typed Transcription of Volume 2. 47 frames.
0355 List of Omissions from the Taylor Beatty Papers.
1 frame.
Beauregard, P.G.T. Cartoon, Mss. 3111, Undated [Louisiana] Location: Reel 14; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of one item, a hand-colored cartoon, undated, by Nathaniel Orr showing Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard on his back in a rough stream of water blowing a bugle. The caption reads “Beauregard in his last Ditch.”
0639 Introductory Materials. 17 frames.
0656 Cartoon, Undated. 2 frames.
Beauregard, P.G.T. Letters, Mss. 2128-1858-1886 [Louisiana and South Carolina] Location: Reel 2; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893) was a Confederate States Army general of New Orleans, Louisiana. Edward Clifton Wharton was a journalist and Confederate army major, also of New Orleans.
This collection consists of ten items, correspondence, 1858-1886, of P.G.T. Beauregard. Letters from Beauregard to Edward Clifton Wharton discuss personal matters and the authorship and publication of Beauregard’s reminiscences on the Civil War. A letter, 1862, from R.M. Smith, provost marshal of the Confederate army, concerns Beauregard’s order to burn bales of cotton belonging to Andrew Turnbull, a British subject. A letter, 1884, from John Johnson, a Confederate army major, recalls the condition of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, after sixty days of bombardment in the fall of 1864.
N.B.A. related collection among the holdings of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections is Mss. 1553, 1575, 1594, 1610, 1613, 1660, 1714, 1736, Edward Clifton Wharton Papers, 1819-1947, included, in part, in the present edition.
0798 Introductory Materials. 7 frames.
0805 Folder 1 of 1, Letters, 1858-1886. 15 frames.
Becton, Edwin Pinckney Papers, 1862-1870 [Hopkins County, Texas] Location: Reel 25; Confederate Military Manuscripts, University of Texas at Austin
These papers consist of transcripts and two original letters from the Civil War correspondence of Becton (1834-1901), physician at Tarrant and Sulphur Springs, with his wife, Mary. Transcripts of Becton’s speeches concern his activities as surgeon in the 22nd Regiment, Texas Infantry, during the Civil War; as a member of the Texas Legislature from Hopkins County (1868-1869); and as a candidate for election.
0001 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0004 Omissions List. 1 frame.
0005 Inventory. 1 frame.
0006 Correspondence, 1862-1865. 96 frames.
0102 [Untitled Folder—Correspondence, 1863]. 13 frames.
Bell, James T. Letter, Mss. 3453, 1864 [Alabama and Ohio] Location: Reel 2; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
James T. Bell, a first lieutenant, served under Capt. John B. Hazard in the 21st Alabama Infantry Regiment. Bell assumed charge of this regiment after the death of Hazard at Johnson’s Island Prison, Ohio, in February 1864. Johnson’s Island Prison was in the Sandusky Bay area of Lake Erie. About three thousand Confederate officers were held there at the close of the Civil War.
This collection consists of one item, a letter, 28 February 1864, of James T. Bell, Johnson’s Island Prison, Ohio. The letter is written to Capt. John B. Hazard’s sister, Mrs. Mary Whitaker, in Alabama, and refers to “Ben,” Benjamin Andrews Whitaker, Mary Whitaker’s husband. It details Hazard’s illness, last wishes, and death at Johnson’s Island Prison. Described are the physical conditions at the prison, the weather, the medical facilities, the Confederate medical staff, and the illnesses rampant among the prisoners of war. Mentioned in the letter are the Confederate surgeons Col. Steadman of the 1st Alabama Regiment, Capt. Sessions of the 18th Mississippi Regiment, Capt. Locke of the 53rd Alabama Cavalry, and Col. Christian of a Virginia regiment. Mr. Helm, chaplain of the 1st Tennessee Regiment, and Capt. George S. Markham from Demopolis, Alabama, and of the 58th Alabama Regiment, were present at Hazard’s death.
0820 Introductory Materials. 9 frames.
0829 Letter, 28 February 1864. 5 frames.
Bell, John W. Papers, Mss. 771, 1862-1864 [Clarke County, Alabama; also Tennessee] Location: Reel 2; Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
John W. Bell, a captain in Company H, 32nd Alabama Infantry Regiment, served in Alabama and Tennessee during the Civil War. He was married to Nancy Bell of Coffeeville, Clarke County, Alabama.
This collection consists of three items and one volume, papers, 1862-1864, of Capt. John W. Bell. Items include letters written to Nancy Bell from Camp Forney, Alabama, and Lavergne, Tennessee. Correspondence discusses complaints of soldiers who had not been paid and lists names of officers to whom John W. Bell had loaned money. Letters also describe economic conditions on local farms, women who brought their children to the camps in order to secure food for them, and women who worked as paid laundresses for the soldiers. A notebook lists personal items and expenses of John W. Bell.
0834 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0838 Papers, 1862- 1864. 28 frames.
Bennet, Miles S. Papers, 1838-1927 [Texas] Location: Reel 25; Confederate Military Manuscripts, University of Texas at Austin
These papers consist of a diary and memorandum book containing information about the Presbyterian General Assembly in 1852 as well as Civil War muster rolls and various financial, military, agricultural, and medical information. Transcriptions of letters and historical narratives primarily dealing with the Battle of the Salado (1842) are also included.
0115 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0118 Omissions List. 2 frames.
[Note: no materials from this collection were filmed.]
Birge, N.A. Papers, Mss. 918, 1036, 1861-1865 [Monroe and Shreveport, Louisiana; also Jefferson, Texas] Location: Reel 2; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
N. A. Birge was a captain and assistant quartermaster in the Confederate States Army. He served at the Monroe Army Post in Louisiana; Shreveport, Louisiana; and Jefferson, Texas.
This collection consists of eighty-eight items, papers, 1861-1865 (bulk 1862-1864), of N. A. Birge. Papers consist of copies of official forms, routine correspondence from army personnel, and a few letters from soldiers. Requisitions, vouchers, and receipts for clothing, camp equipment, transportation, and medical supplies approved by Confederate States Army personnel and referred to Birge for payment during 1862-1864 are included. The impressments of cotton in Texas is discussed in two letters from Col. W.A. Broadwell, Office of the Cotton Bureau, Headquarters, Trans-Mississippi Department.
0866 Introductory Materials. 15 frames.
0881 Papers, 1861-1865. 119 frames.
Black, William W. Family Papers, 1845-1911 [Panola County, Texas; also Louisiana] Location: Reel 25; Confederate Military Manuscripts, University of Texas at Austin
Papers in this collection relate to Black (1820-1862), a physician in Panola County, as well as to the Robb family of New Orleans, and they reflect the social, political, cultural, and financial activities of various family members and friends. Correspondence and financial records primarily concern Black’s medical career and his service in the Confederate Army as a captain in the 14th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Dismounted). Black died during the Army of Tennessee’s campaign of 1862-1863.
0120 Introductory Materials. 6 frames.
0126 Omissions List. 1 frame.
0127 Inventory. 1 frame.
0128 Personal Correspondence: Letters from William
Black to Melinda Black, 1862 and Undated. 23
frames.
0151 Personal Correspondence: Papers of Melinda
Black Dosson, 1861-1884 and Undated. 11 frames.
0162 Correspondence: Robb Family, 1864-1911. 7
frames.
0169 Photographs. 4 frames.
Blanchard, D.A. Receipts, Mss. 2142, 1863 [Richmond, Virginia] Location: Reel 3; Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of three items, receipts, 1863, of Capt. G. Barksdale, assistant quartermaster at Richmond, Virginia.
0251 Introductory Material. 3 frames.
0254 Receipts, 1863. 4 frames.
Bledsoe, Joseph Papers, 1854-1865 [Austin and Brownsville, Texas] Location: Reel 25; Confederate Military Manuscripts, University of Texas at Austin
This collection contains the correspondence of Bledsoe (1827-1880), who came to Texas in the early 1850s as a surveyor, practiced law in Austin (1854-1858) and Denton (1858-1860), and was wounded as a Confederate soldier. In later life he served as judge of the Twenty-seventh District and practiced law in Sherman. The letters concern Brownsville during the Civil War and Austin before and after it.
0173 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0176 [Untitled Folder—Correspondence, 1854-1865].
12 frames.
Boudreaux, Maximilien E. Family Papers, 1856-1927 Assumption Parish, Louisiana; Location: Reel 15; Records of Southern Plantations, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of the papers of Maximilien e. Boudreaux of Assumption Parish. The records primarily relate to Boudreaux’s financial and business affairs and to the production of sugar and molasses. There are records of advances made to tenant farmers and to laborers. Time books record hours of work and wages earned by laborers on Boudreaux’s lands.
0001 Introductory Materials. 2 frames.
0003 [Papers], 1856-1878. 28 frames. Major Topic:
Store accounts.
0031 [Papers], 1879-1893. 33 frames. Major Topics: Personal finances; shipping accounts; store accounts; molasses production and sales; taxation.
0064 Ledger, 1878-1879. 35 frames. Major Topics:
Personal finances; labor accounts.
0099 [Correspondence], 1894-1913. 43 frames. Major
Topic: Advances to tenant farmers.
0142 Volume 1, Cashbook, 1922-1927. 61 frames.
Major Topic: Personal finances.
0203 Volume 2, Memorandum Book, 1860-1880. 47
frames. Major Topics: Personal finances; cash advances.
[Volume 3 missing in original collection.]
0250 Volume 4, Time Book, 1880. 24 frames. Major
Topic: Labor accounts.
0274 Volume 5, Time Book, 1886-1888. 29 frames.
Major Topic: Labor accounts.
Boyd, John Diary, 1850-1871, Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, Location: Reel 14, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War.
Description of the Collection, John Boyd was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on February 18, 1783, and died on July 30, 1858 at his plantation, “Oak Grove.” He owned a plantation on Bayou Lettsworth in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, which may or may not have been this “Oak Grove.” He may also have owned property near Donaldsonville, Louisiana. One of his daughters, Margaret Bruce, married Colonel Henry T. Williams of Montgomery County, Maryland, and the Williams’s daughter, Clara D., married Lieutenant Edward D. Seghers of the Confederate army.
This collection consists of Boyd’s diary. The diary provides only brief, irregular entries, January 1, to June 25, 1850. Expense accounts and planting records were entered in the book in 1859 and 1866, and additional expense accounts were apparently added in 1870 and 1871. The diary begins with a description of a trip Boyd took to New Orleans. Boyd also noted in January that he traveled up the Mississippi River to his plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish and briefly described the condition of his slaves and land. Other entries concern the weather, visits to and from his neighbors, various trips he made by boat, and, in May, descriptions of the water level in a river, possibly the Mississippi, which rose and fell after a series of storms. A typed transcription of entries made in 1850, 1859, and 1866 is available.
Biographical Note
Related collections among the holdings of the Southern Historical Collection include the Edward D. Seghers Papers and the Henry L. Duffel Papers. These collections are open to researchers on site at the Southern Historical Collection.
0463 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
Diary
0468 Folder 1, Original, 1850-1871. 63 frames.
0531 Folder 2, Typed Transcription of 1850, 1859, and
1866 Entries. 16 frames.
Bradbury, Charles W. Papers, 1817-1854, New Orleans, Louisiana; also Indiana, New York, and Ohio; Location: Reel 1 & 2; Southern Woman & Their Families, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Bradbury family were residents of Manlius and Canandaigua, New York; Cincinnati and Montgomery, Ohio; Madison, Indiana; and New Orleans, Louisiana. Family members included Jacob Bradbury (fl. 1817-1825); Cornelius S. Bradbury (fl. 1817-1848); Elizabeth A. Bradbury (fl. 1817-1825); and Charles William Bradbury (fl. 1832-1856). Madaline Selima Edwards (fl. 1843-1848), C. W. Bradbury’s New Orleans mistress, is also significant in this collection.
Chiefly consists of letters to Cornelius S. Bradbury, 1818-1825; correspondence, financial and legal papers, and memorandum books of Charles W. Bradbury, 1832-1852; and notebooks, containing essays, poems, and other writings, and diaries of Madaline S. Edwards, 1843-1847. Legal papers include items relating to purchases of slaves, real estate, and a cottonseed manufacturing plant in or near New Orleans. Letters include descriptions of social life and customs in the various places of residence of the Bradbury family, descriptions of traveling through southern Indiana and down the Ohio Mississippi Rivers from Cincinnati to New Orleans, and reflections on their relationship by Charles Bradbury and Madaline Edwards. Also included are three daguerreotypes, a photograph, and an ink sketch.
The collection is arranged as follows: Series 1, Correspondence and Other Loose Papers; Series 2, Writing Books, Diaries, and Memorandum Books; and Series 3, Pictures.
Biographical Note
Jacob Bradbury (fl. 1817-1834), apparently a doctor and farmer, was married to Mary Bradbury (fl. 1817-1842); their children included Elizabeth A. Bradbury (fl. 1817-1835); Cornelius S. Bradbury (fl. 1818-1848); Charles William Bradbury (fl. 1835-1856); Mrs. C. I. (Bradbury) Doan (fl. 1835-1842); James Anson Bradbury (fl. 1835-1848); and Marcus T. I. Bradbury (fl. 1834-1848).
Cornelius S. Bradbury moved from Canandaigua, New York, to Cincinnati in about 1820. He married Sarah (surname unknown) Bradbury (fl. 1821-1844) in about 1822. Jacob Bradbury moved from Manlius, New York, to Montgomery, Ohio, in late 1821; the rest of his family followed in 1822. By 1834 many of the family had removed to Madison, Indiana.
Charles William (“Charley”) Bradbury moved to New Orleans in 1835. He married Mary Anne (Hamilton) Taylor (fl. 1836-1852) in 1836. The New Orleans directory shows that Charles William Bradbury resided on Estelle Street between Constance and Magazine in 1838; in 1852, he was an insurance broker with an office at the corner of Erato and Bacchus (Baronne) streets; in 1853 he was at No. 75 St. Charles Street; the 1856 directory lists him as a “Cottonseed and Lard Oil Manufacturer,” with an office on Circus Street, corner of Girod.
Madaline Selima (“Mad”) Edwards (fl. 1843-1848), originally from Tennessee and later Mississippi, was living in New Orleans when she met Charles W. Bradbury. She apparently became his mistress, and he purchased a house for her use in October 1843. References in the papers indicate that Mrs. Edwards was raised by and uncle in Tennessee and was married at his house, and that three of her children died in Clinton, Mississippi. Another connection to Charles W. Bradbury was Helen (“Ellen”) Hart, apparently of Cincinnati, Ohio.
0356 Introductory Materials. 14 frames.
Series 1
0370 Description of Series 1. 2 frames.
0372 Folder 1, 1817-1820. 18 frames.
0390 Folder 2, 1821. 15 frames.
0405 Folder 3, 1822-1825. 17 frames.
0422 Folder 4, 1832-1834. 19 frames.
0441 Folder 5, 1835. 18 frames.
0459 Folder 6, 1836-1837. 27 frames.
0486 Folder 7, 1838-1840. 18 frames.
0504 Folder 8, 1841-1842. 34 frames.
0538 Folder 9, 1843-1844. 38 frames.
0576 Folder 10, 1845-1846. 12 frames.
0588 Folder 11, January- June 1847. 34 frames.
0622 Folder 12, September 1847-1849. 23 frames.
0645 Folder 13, 1852-1854. 45 frames.
Series 2
0690 Description of Series 2. 1 frame.
0691 Folder 14, Volume 1, Madeline Selima Edwards,
Writing Book, December 1843- September 1844.
168 frames.
0859 Folder 15, Volume 2, Madeline Selima Edwards,
Writing Book, October 1844- April 1847. 153 frames.
Reel 2
0001 Folder 16, Volume 3, Madeline Selima Edwards,
Diary, 1844. 70 frames.
0071 Folder 17, Volume 4, Madeline Selima Edwards
Diary, 1845. 71 frames.
0142 Folder 18, Volumes 5-6, Charles W. Bradbury,
Memorandum Books, 1846-1847. 23 frames.
Series 3
0166 P-3011/1-5. 11 frames.
Brashear and Lawrence Family Papers, 1804-1982, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana; also Kentucky and New York, Location: Reel 7, 8, 9 & 10 Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War.
Description of the Collection: Walter Brashear (1776-1860) was a physician in Kentucky before 1822 when he moved to St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, where he become a sugar planter and state legislator after acquiring Belle Island Plantation and other landholdings in the area. The family of Effingham Lawrence (d.1850) and Ann Townsend Lawrence (fl. 1802-1830s) lived in Bayside, New York, until sons Robert (fl. 1820’s-1850s), Samuel Townsend (d. 1839), Henry Effingham (1809-1876?), and Effingham, Jr. (1820?-1878) moved to New Orleans to take up merchandizing and sugar planting. Henry Effingham Lawrence married Frances Emily Brashear, daughter of Walter and Margaret Barr Brashear, in 1844.
This collection contains correspondence among members of the Brashear, Lawrence, and related Barr, Parker, Clay, Tilton, and Townsend families. Subjects include observations while traveling in Ohio, Pennsylvania (especially Pittsburgh), and Mississippi in the 1820s and1830s; physician Walter Brashear’s life in Lexington, Kentucky, in the 1820s and 1830s; sugar growing, slavery, and medical care in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana; Louisiana politics, especially in the 1840s; and various aspects of the Confederacy. Letters from the Lawrence brothers in New Orleans to their relatives in New York in the 1820s offer observations by Northerners on life in the south. Civil War correspondence and the diary of Henry Effingham Lawrence refer in some detail to military operations and the effects of the war in St. Mary Parish and, more generally, to events throughout the country. Correspondence with the Lawrence children at the Louisiana Institute for the deaf and the Dumb and the Blind at Baton Rouge, the Whipple School at Mystic River, Connecticut, Miss Bolton’s School at Middletown, Connecticut, and the Hellmuth Ladies School at London, Ontario, Canada, concerns school, social life, and family matters in the 1860s and 1870s. There are also scattered financial and legal materials; miscellaneous writings, and other materials.
Biographical Note
Walter Brashear (1776-1860), was a surgeon, sugar-planter, an exporter of ginseng to China, and, beginning in 1834, member of the Louisiana legislature. Though born in Maryland, he was raised and lived in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, until 1822, when he moved to St. Mary Parish (Attakapas region), Louisiana. He acquired extensive landholdings in the area, including Belle Island Plantation, and what was known in the 1860s as the Town of Brashear or Brashear City, now Morgan City. A sketch of Walter Brashear appears in the Filson Club Quarterly, XXVll, pp. 156-157.
Margaret Barr (1781-1834) of Kentucky married Walter Brashear in 1803. The Brashear’s had at least six children: Mary Eliza, Rebecca Tilton, Carolina Imly, Walter B., Thomas Todd (d.1858), and Frances Emily (1819-1895) who married Henry Effingham Lawrence (1809-1876?) in 1844.
Henry E. Lawrence was the son of Ann Townsend (fl. 1802-1830s) and Judge Effingham Lawrence (fl. 1802-d. 1850) of Bayside, Long Island, New York. (Among his siblings were Samuel Townsend [fl. 1820s-1839], Robert [fl. 1820-1850s], and Effingham, Jr. [1820?-1878].) He moved from Long Island to New Orleans about 1836, became a merchant, acquired Magnolia Plantation, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and, after marrying Frances E. Brashear, became associated with the Brashear landholdings in St. Mary Parish.
Henry and Frances Lawrence had seven children, six of whom were Walter B., Townsend B. (“Towny”), Robert B. (“Bob”), Nancy B., Lydia B., and Margaret (“Maggie”). Five of these children were deaf-mutes. Frances Brashear moved to Long Island, New York, during the Civil War and lived on the Brashear plantations with various of her children in her later years.
0861 Introductory Materials. 17 frames.
Subseries 1.1.1
0878 Description of Subseries 1.1.1. 1 frame.
0879 Folder 1, 1802-1818. 45 frames.
0924 Folder 2, 1821-1823. 60 frames.
0984 Folder 3, 1824-1828. 25 frames.
1009 Folder 4, 1829-1830. 35 frames.
Reel 8
Subseries 1.1.1
0001 Folder 5, 1831-1832. 38 frames.
0039 Folder 6, 1833-1834. 43 frames.
0082 Folder 7, 1835-1837. 46 frames.
0128 Folder 8, 1838-1843. 41 frames.
Subseries 1.1.2
0169 Description of Subseries 1.1.2. 1 frame.
0170 Folder 9, 1802-1808. 53 frames.
0223 Folder 10, 1818. 16 frames.
0239 Folder 11, June 1820. 54 frames.
0293 Folder 12, July 1820. 28 frames.
0321 Folder 13, 1821-1824. 29 frames.
0350 Folder 14, 1825-1827. 27 frames.
0377 Folder 15, 1829-1834. 40 frames.
0417 Folder 16, 1835-1837. 74 frames.
0491 Folder 17, 1838. 61 frames.
0552 Folder 18, 1839-1840. 58 frames.
0611 Folder 19, 1841-1843. 62 frames.
Subseries 1.2
0673 Description of Subseries 1.2 1. frame.
0674 Folder 20, January- June 1844. 57 frames.
0731 Folder 21, July- December 1844. 58 frames.
0789 Folder 22, 1845. 85 frames.
0874 Folder 23, 1846-1848. 42 frames.
0916 Folder 24, January-February 1849. 57 frames.
0973 Folder 25, March-December 1849. 70 frames.
1043 Folder 26, 1850. 61 frames.
Reel 9
Subseries 1.2
0001 Folder 27, 1851. 67 frames.
0068 Folder 28, 1852-1853. 76 frames.
0144 Folder 29, 1854-1859. 80 frames.
0224 Folder 30, 1860. 42 frames.
Subseries 1.3
0266 Description of Subseries 1.3. 1 frame.
0267 Folder 31, 1861-1862. 54 frames.
0321 Folder 32, 1863. 65 frames.
0386 Folder 33, 1864. 60 frames.
0446 Folder 34, 1865. 81 frames.
Subseries 1.4
0527 Description of Subseries 1.4
0528 Folder 35, 1866-1868. 70 frames.
0598 Folder 36, 1869-1870. 77 frames.
0675 Folder 37, 1871-1874. 88 frames.
0763 Folder 38, January-April 1875. 70 frames.
0833 Folder 39, June 1875-1887, 1897. 89 frames.
Subseries 1.5
0922 Description of Subseries 1.5. 1 frame.
0923 Folder 40, Undated. 45 frames.
Series 2
0968 Description of Series 2. 1 frame.
0969 Folder 41, 1803-1860. 36 frames.
1005 Folder 42, 1870-1874. 34 frames.
1039 Folder 43, Undated. 4 frames.
Reel 10
0001 Description of Series 3. 1 frame.
0002 Folder 44, Henry Effingham Lawrence, Diary,
1862- July 1863. 154 frames.
Series 4
0156 Description of Series 4. 1 frame
0157 Folder 45, Writings, ca. 1856-1858 and Undated.
38 frames.
0195 Folder 46, Printed Materials, 1892-1960 and
Undated. 61 frames.
0256 Folder 47, Eccles Register, 1982. 69 frames.
Brumby and Simpson Family Papers, 1847-1865, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana; also Mississippi: Location: Reel 7; Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War
Description of the Collection, Sarah Catherine Brumby Simpson (1840-1915), daughter of John Greening Brumby and Catherine Sarah Remley Brumby of Benton and Goodman, Mississippi, is the central figure in these papers. Sarah had at least five brothers and three sisters. In 1858, she married Richard Simpson (d. 1871) of Covington, Louisiana. A businessman, Simpson traveled frequently throughout Louisiana and Texas. Together they had four children.
Although Sarah Brumby Simpson was the recipient of the vast majority of the letters in the collection, the insight they provide into her life is limited. Most illuminating on her personal affairs are letters she received from her husband, discussing their children and finances. The lives of her other siblings emerge more fully in the letters. They shared with her news of their travels, family events, and activities, and freely discussed their feelings and worries about family, political, and social events.
A handful of letters are addressed to other family members, including Sarah’s brother-in-law, Augustus Vaughan. Civil War letters provide information on troop conditions and civilian hardships, especially in Tennessee and Mississippi. Other topics of interest in the letters are courtship; Arnoldus Brumby’s medical practice; postwar economic conditions; religious fervor among women in Marietta, Georgia, during the Civil War; and family life.
The papers are useful for the study of a variety of topics, including family life in the ante-bellum and postwar South, the experiences of civilians and soldiers in the Civil War, and social and religious life in Louisiana and Mississippi. The Civil War letters are the fullest in terms of their emotional and factual depth.
Biographical Note
Sarah Catherine Brumby Simpson (1840-1915) was the daughter of John Greening Brumby and Catherine Sarah Remley Brumby of Benton and Goodman, Mississippi. Sara Catherine was referred to sometimes as Sarah, sometimes as Sallie, and sometimes as Kate. She had at least five brother, Arnoldus S. (1832-1892), Robert E. (1834-1864), John (1838-1863?), James R. (b. 1846), and Thomas Micajah (b. 1852), and three sisters, Virginia Carolina (1836-1915), Mary E., called Mollie (1844-1907), and Emily (1848).
In 1858 Sarah Brumby married Richard Simpson (d. 1871) of Covington, Louisiana, and moved there with him. Simpson traveled frequently throughout Louisiana and Texas as a business agent for several clients. The Simpsons had four children, Mary Ellis, Pearl, Eloise, and Richard. A letter of June 4, 1871, mentions that after Simpson’s death in 1871 Sarah considered opening a millinery shop with one of her sisters, but no evidence appears to document whether she ever went through with her plans. Letters addressed to her show that Sarah lived in Knoxville Tennessee, in 1906, and in St. Petersburg, Florida, from 1907 until her death in 1915.
Two of Sarah’s brothers, Robert E. and John Greening Brumby, Jr., lost their lives in the Civil War. Her brothers, Arnoldus, studied medicine and became a physician in Holmes County, Mississippi. Another brother, James R., after serving in the Confederate army, became a cooper in Marietta, Georgia. In the 1870s he set up a chair manufacturing firm there, being joined by his brother Thomas Micajah Brumby. Thomas later left their partnership to set up a competing company. Sarah’s sister, Mary E. (called Mollie), married Augustus Vaughn and lived in Goodman, Mississippi, and later Little Rock, Arkansas. Her sister, Virginia Carolina, married a Mr. Wellons and lived in Marietta, Georgia. Emily lived in Fort Gaines, Florida.
Only sketchy information is available on Sarah’s children. Her daughter, Mary Ellis (called Nellie), married James C. Talley, and her daughter, Eloise, married T. A. Gramling. Another daughter, Pearl, remained unmarried. No evidence appears about whether or who her son Richard (also called Dick and Bud) married.
Omissions
A list of omissions from Simpson and Brumby Family Papers is provided on reel 7, frame 0860, and consists of Subseries 1.2, Correspondence, 1866-1909, and Series 2, other Papers, 1860-1945.
0669 Introductory materials. 11 frames.
Subseries 1.1: 1847-1858, and 1860-1865.
0680 Description of Subseries 1.1 1 frame.
0681 Folder 1, 1847, 1857-1858. 68 frames.
0749 Folder 2, 1860-1865. 111 frames.
Omissions
0860 List of Omissions from the Simpson and Brumby
Family Papers. 1 frame.
Brusle, Charles A. Papers, Mss. 558, 1605, 1627, 1854-1905 [Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana] Location : Reel 3; Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Charles A. Brusle, a sugar planter of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana was a Confederate States Army officer, Company A, 3rd Louisiana Infantry; member, 1857-1861, of the state House of Representatives; state senator; Iberville Parish tax collector; and sheriff.
This collection consists of thirty-two items, including three volumes, papers, 1854-1905, of Charles A. Brusle. Items include personal papers, a diary, a record book, and newspaper clippings from a scrapbook. Antebellum papers, 1854-1860, include recommendations for Brusle’s matriculation at the University of Virginia and a letter from Pierre Soule introducing Rep. Sidney Lewis. Civil War papers concern Brusle’s commission as a captain, his appointment as aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Louis Hebert, and his capture and parole as a prisoner of was Postwar materials include a broadside issued during Brusle’s campaign for state senator; letters from Louisiana Governor Samuel D. McEnery; a petition requesting Brusle to run for the office of mayor of Plaquemine; and a letter from the National Reconstruction Party addressing early Reconstruction problems in rural parishes and registration of whites in New Orleans. The record book consists of accounts with Rosa Brusle, 1864; expenses of Monticello Plantation, Louisiana, 1865; and Brusle’s personal observations of the Confederate government in early 1864.
A list of omissions from Charles A. Brusle Papers, Mss. 558, 1605, 1627, 1854-1905, is provided on Reel 3, Frame 0470. Omitted items consist of a scrapbook and printed volumes. Volume 1, Diary, 1861, was inadvertently omitted in microfilming but is open to researchers on site at the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University Libraries.
0290 Introductory Materials. 14 frames.
0304 Folder 1, Papers, 1854-1905. 55 frames.
0359 Folder 2, Newspaper Clippings, 1857-1875. 31 frames.
0390 Folder 3, Newspaper Clippings, 1880-1893. 28
frames.
0418 Folder 4, Newspaper Clippings, Undated. 28
frames.
0446 Volume 2, Pocket Record Book, 1864-1865. 24
frames.
0470 List of Omissions from Charles A. Brusle Papers,
Mss. 558, 1605, 1627, 1854-1905. 1 frame.
Bryan, Arthur John Papers, 1841-1872 [Dallas and McLennan County, Texas; also Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri] Location: Reel 10; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
Bryan was a captain of the Texas Rangers in the Civil War and a member of the Third Texas Cavalry. His papers include a memorandum book, a Republican ticket list, survey field notes, receipts, legal papers, a muster roll, and other military papers.
0999 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
1004 Correspondence, 1841-1872 and Undated. 92
frames.
Burges-Jefferson Family Papers, 1836-1960 [Texas; also Mississippi and Virginia] Location: Reel 25; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection primarily contains family correspondence and business documents of the Jefferson and Burges families. Jefferson family materials include personal correspondence of John R. Jefferson Jr., brigadier general in the Mississippi militia (1842-1846), tavern owner, stage line operator in Seguin, Texas (1853-1858), and confederate marshal for the Western District of Texas (1862-1865); his wife, Eliza A. Coorpender Jefferson; and their daughter, Mattie S. Jefferson (died 1877). Most letters were written during the Civil War and concern camp life as well as family and community affairs. Also included are official documents relating to John Jefferson’s Confederate post as well as a copy of his amnesty from President Andrew Johnson; slave lists, a bill of sale for a slave, and an obituary of a former slave of Joseph Henry Polley, one of Stephen F. Austin’s colonists; a “Premium Ticket purchased at a Concert given by the Ladies of Seguin for the Benefit of the Hospitals at Richmond, Virginia, and Victoria, Texas for the Texas Soldiers, January 1st, 1862”; a broadside advertising a sale of damaged cotton, 1864; material relating to a flag made by Seguin women and presented to Hood’s Texas Brigade in 1861; and several letters from William C. Walsh (1836-1924), a lieutenant in the Tom Green Rifles and later a state land commissioner. Burges family materials include correspondence of William H. Burges (1838-1898), lawyer and state senator (1880-1881); his third wife, Mary Lou (Mamie) Jefferson Burges; and their children. One letter contains a firsthand account by W. H. Burges of the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862.
0188 Introductory materials. 6 frames.
0194 Omissions List. 1 frame.
0195 Inventory. 1 frame.
0196 Mattie Jefferson: Personal Correspondence, 1858
1861. 45 frames.
0241 Mattie Jefferson: personal Correspondence, 1862
1864. 90 frames.
0331 Mattie Jefferson: personal Correspondence, 1865
1869 and Undated. 27 frames.
0358 John R. and Eliza A. Coorpender Jefferson Family:
Personal Correspondence, 1836, 1861-1862, 1888; Business and Legal Documents, 1858-1892. 99 frames.
0457 Burges Family: Personal Correspondence, 1853
1920. 7 frames.
0464 [Untitled Folder-List of Slaves Set Free;
Correspondence]. 12 frames.
0476 [Untitled Folder-Photographs, Broadsides]. 17
frames.
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Cable, James B. Papers, Mss. 1765, 1862-1913 [Lauderdale and Long Beach, Mississippi] Location: Reel 3 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of sixty-one items and one printed volume, papers, 1862-1913; of James B. Cable. Papers consist of Letters, 1862-1913; Miscellaneous, Undated; Poems, 1897-1910; Stories, 1890-1901; and Printed Volume, 1880. Letters, 1865-1866, from Cable to his mother mention his work as an orderly at Oliver Hospital, Lauderdale, Mississippi, during the Civil War. Letters from Cable’s brother George indicate his indifference and aversion to seeing James.
A list of omission from James B. Cable Papers, Mss. 1765, 1862-1913, is provided on Reel 3, Frame 0512. Omitted items include Letters, 1885-1913; Miscellaneous, Undated; Poems, 1897-1910; Stories, 1890-1901; and Printed Volume, 1880.
0471 Introductory Materials. 10 frames.
0481 Folder 1, Letters, 1862 and 1865-1866. 31
frames.
0512 List of Omissions from James B. Cable Papers,
Mss. 1765, 1862-1913. 1 frame.
Caffery Family Papers, 1838-1850, Iberia and St. Mary Parishes, Louisiana, Location: Reel 7 Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War
This collection includes correspondence of the Caffery and Richardson families of Iberia Parish, Louisiana. Prominent family members include Bethia Liddell Richardson (d. 1852); her husband, Francis DuBose Richardson (b. 1812), sugar planter at Bayside Plantation on Bayou Teche and state legislator; their daughter, Bethia Richardson Caffery (fl. 1866-1907) and her husband, Donaldson Caffery (1835-1906), son of Donelson Caffery (fl 1830s) and Lydia Murphy Caffery McKerall (fl. 1835-1881), lawyer in Franklin, Louisiana, sugar planter, Confederate soldier, state legislator, and U.S. senator. 1892-1901.
This collection chiefly consists of personal correspondence among Caffery and Richardson family members. Most of the Richardson family papers are dated 1838 to 1852 and cover topics such as sugar planting, purchases and settlement of land, and family activities. The bulk of the Caffery family papers fall between 1866 and 1906. Their letters are chiefly about family activities, but Donelson Caffery also wrote about politics in Louisiana and Washington, D.C. There are letters written to Donelson, while he was a senator, congratulating him on his stand on the gold standard, two letters from Grover Cleveland, and letters concerning Democratic party matters. Letters from later years deal chiefly with Donelson’s efforts in the face of financial difficulties, including work on his sugar plantations and attempts at establishing oil wells.
Biographical Note
Bethia Richardson Caffery was the daughter of Francis DuBose Richardson (b. 1812) and Bethia Liddell Richardson (d. 1852). The Richardsons lived first near New Iberia and later at Bayside Plantation on the Bayou Teche near Jeanerette in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. Francis was a sugar planter and also served in the Louisiana state legislature during the early 1850s.
Bethia Richardson married Donelson Caffery in 1869. Caffery was the son of Donelson Caffery (fl. 1830s) and Lydia Murphy Caffery (fl. 1835-1881). After the death of his father, his mother married Watson McKerall. Donelson Caffery attended school in Franklin, Louisiana, and St. Mary’s College in Baltimore, Maryland. He later studied law in the office of Joseph W. Walker and at Louisiana University in New Orleans. After completing school he apparently began sugar planting on Bayou Cypremont near the Gulf of Mexico. Bethia and Donelson Caffery had ten children.
Caffery joined the Crescent Rifles in New Orleans in January 1862. He was transferred to the 13th Louisiana Regiment and fought in the battle of Shiloh. Later he was made lieutenant on the staff of Brigadier General W. W. Walker and remained in that position until the end of the war.
After the war Caffery began to practice law and continued in sugar planting. He became involved in Louisiana politics and in 1879 was elected to the Louisiana state constitutional convention. In 1892 he was elected to the state Senate and that same year was appointed to the U.S. Senate when Randall L. Gibson died. Two years later he was reelected and served until the expiration of his term in 1901. As a senator, Caffery opposed free silver and the war with Spain. He was active in the formation of the National or “Gold” Democratic party and was nominated as that party’s candidate for president in 1900; he declined in order to return home and resume the practice of law and cultivation of his sugar plantation. He died in 1906.
The exact location and number of plantations owned by Donelson Caffery is not known; however, it is believed he owned at least two, Haifleigh and Bethia Plantation, both of which were located in St. Mary’s Parish near Franklin, Louisiana.
N.B. Biographical information was taken from a sketch on Donelson Caffery by Eugene M. Violette in the Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. lll, pp. 402-403.
Omissions
A list of omissions from the Caffery Family Papers is provided on reel 7, frame 0668, and includes Subseries 2.2-2.6, Papers on the Caffery Family, 1866-1925 and Undated.
0359 Introductory Materials. 17 frames.
Series 1
0376 Description of Series 1. 1 frame.
0377 Folder 1, 1838-1839. 58 frames.
0435 Folder 2, 1840. 49 frames.
0484 Folder 3, 1841-1842. 46 frames.
0530 Folder 4, 1843-1847. 47 frames.
0577 Folder 5, 1850-1852. 42 frames.
Series 2: Subseries 2.1
0619 Description of Subseries 2.1. 1 frame.
0620 Folder 6, 1855-1859. 48 frames.
Omissions
0668 List of Omissions from the Caffery Family Papers.
1 frame.
Cahan, Solomon Application, Confederate States Army Collection (M), Mss. 1063, 1863 [Alexandria and Vermilion Parish, Louisiana] Location: Reel 3 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Solomon Cahan, a French citizen and a merchant, was conscripted as a private into Company I of the Crescent Regiment, Louisiana Infantry (24th Louisiana Infantry Regiment), by Capt. H. B. Stevens, provost marshal of Vermilion Parish.
This collection consists of two items, an application and memorandum, 1863, concerning the discharge of French citizens from the Confederate States Army. The application, 6 August 1863, of Solomon Cahan requests a discharge from the Confederate States Army and states that he is a French citizen. The application is signed by Cahan’s superior officers. Included is a memorandum, 28 August 1863, from headquarters, District of Louisiana at Alexandria, stating that an application for discharge of a French subject (presumably Cahan) has been denied.
0513 Introductory Materials. 3 fames.
0516 Application, 1863. 4 frames.
Cameron, Bluford Alexander Papers, 1862-1950 [Belton, Texas; also Arkansas and Louisiana] Location: Reel 10 & 25; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of a letter, a diary with transcription, family notes, artifacts, and photographs relating to the career of Bluford Alexander Cameron as a sergeant in the Confederate Army and to the history of the Whitsitt and Cameron families.
1096 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
1101 Diary and Description, April 1862- July 1863;
Letter, 1863. 68 frames.
1169 Photographs, Mrs. Martha Huffines Cameron,
Joseph Huffines, Undated. 5 frames.
Carter, A.G. and Miller, John C. Letter, Mss. 4623, 1862 [East Baton Rouge, East and West Feliciana Parishes, Louisiana] Location: Reel 3 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
A. G. Carter and John C. Miller were deputy provost marshals, Confederate States Army. Daniel Ruggles (1810-1897) was a native of Barre, Massachusetts. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he saw action in the Seminole Wars and Mexican War. He married into a Virginia family and on 7 May 1861 resigned from the U.S. Army to enter Confederate service. He was commissioned a brigadier general on 9 August 1861 and served at Corinth, Mississippi, early in the war under Albert Sydney Johnston. He held several district and departmental commands during the course of the war and was appointed commissary general of prisoners, 30 March 1865.
This collection consists of one item, a letter, 13 July 1862, to Brig. Gen. Daniel Ruggles from A. G. Carter and John C. Miller, deputy provost marshals. The letter documents actions of Federal forces against the inhabitants of the Louisiana parishes of East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, and West Feliciana. The letter contains requests for troops to defend the parishes and for the planting of batteries along the Red River.
0520 Introductory Materials. 6 frames.
0526 Letter, 13 July 1862. 4 frames.
Cavitt, Josephus Papers, 1860-1865 and 1868 [Robertson County and Wheelock, Texas] Location: Reel 10; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
These papers concern the career and family of cavitt (born 1826), stock raiser and militiaman in Robertson County, and relate to conscription under the Confederacy in Texas (1863); sequestration, condemnation, confiscation, and sale at public auction of lands taken as property of alien enemies of the Confederate States (1863-1864); the selling of slaves; Reconstruction; and Cavitt’s application for special amnesty. Included are correspondence, financial papers, military orders, muster rolls, a deed, a certificate, and a broadside.
1174 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
1178 Miscellaneous Documents, 1800-1856. 17 frames.
1195 [Muster Roll]. 10 frames.
1205 CSA, District Court. Receiver’s Sale of Confiscated
Lands, September 20, 1863. 3 frames.
Chalmers, James Ronald Letter, Mss. 2699, 1861 [sic, 1862] [Mississippi] Location: Reel 3 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
James Ronald Chalmers (1831-1898) was a Confederate general and a postwar U.S. congressman from Mississippi. He was a district attorney and a member of the Mississippi Secession Convention. As colonel of the 9th Mississippi Infantry, he commanded at Pensacola, Florida. In February 1862, he was promoted to brigadier general and served with distinction throughout the war. Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and veteran of the Mexican American War, who retired and became a Louisiana sugar plantation owner before joining the Confederate States Army. Bragg served as major general, Department of Alabama and West Florida, 14 October 1861—28 February 1862, and in a number of other commands during the war.
This collection consists of one item, a letter, 3 January1861 [sic, 1862], to Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg from James Ronald Chalmers. The letter was written at Camp Bragg while Chalmers was a colonel in the 9th Mississippi Regiment. It acknowledges on behalf of the officers of that unit the receipt of a barrel of golden syrup from Mrs. Bragg.
0530 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0533 Letter, 3 January 1861 [sic, 1862]. 2 frames.
Chambers, Rowland Diaries, Mss. 839, 1849-1863 [Vicksburg, Mississippi; also Louisiana] Reel 3 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Dr. Rowland Chambers (ca. 1803-1866) was an itinerant dentist from Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi. He practiced dentistry in North St. Louis, Missouri, in 1849; in Panama City, Panama, in 1850; and in Yazoo County, Mississippi, and Richmond, Madison Parish, Louisiana, from 1858 to 1860, before returning to Vicksburg.
This collection consists of seven volumes, diaries, 1849-1863, of Dr. Rowland Chambers. Six diaries, 1849-1863, describe places visited, names of patients (including names of their slaves), Chambers’s health and the health of his parents, his activities at home and local events, visitors received, and the weather. The diary for 1862-1863 describes his activities in Vicksburg, Mississippi, including the siege of Vicksburg, beginning with the events of 26 May 1862 and continuing through the summer until the withdrawal of Federal forces. Coverage of the siege continues in December 1862 with the resumption of the Federal campaign through June 1863. Chamber’s diaries contain financial accounts listing yearly income, types of dental work performed, and payments received for services. The collection also includes a diary of Augustus Lattz of Company H, 76th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, which contains entries concerning the activities of this regiment, 10 January-25 July 1863.
0535 Introductory Materials. 10 frames.
0545 Diaries, Volume 1, 1849-1852. 45 frames.
0590 Diaries, Volume 2, 1849-1851. 31 frames.
0621 Diaries, Volume 3, 1858. 192 frames.
0813 Diaries, Volume 4, 1859. 71 frames.
0884 Diaries, Volume 5, 1860. 164 frames.
Reel 4
0001 Diaries, Volume 6, 1858 and 1862-1863. 115
frames.
0116 Diaries, Volume 7, Augustus Lattz, 10 January-25
July 1863. 33 frames.
Civil War Miscellany, 1855-1956 [Texas; also Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia] Location: Reel 11; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of diverse items connected in some way with the Civil War. The material concerns both Union and Confederate soldiers and has many points of origin. Predominant in the collection is a Civil War biographical file containing personal letters to and from soldiers, as well as a few official letters and documents and a few papers not related to the war. Among the items included are financial records of the River and Railroad Transportation Office of the Quartermaster Department of the Union Army in Little Rock, Arkansas, including transport of troops, supplies, and refugees; the diary of a Union soldier of the Fifteenth Corps; stereoviews of the siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, May 27 to July 9, 1863; conscription and exemption documents; and Special Field Order No. 65 (April 27, 1865) from William T. Sherman terminating the war for armies under Albert Sidney Johnston [Joseph E. Johnston] and for the country east of the Chattahoochie River. Included are correspondence, a diary, military orders, requisitions, commissions, election certificates, financial records, stereoviews, and poems.
0001 Introductory materials. 15 frames.
0016 Allen, Stephen. 2 frames.
0018 Armistead, George. 10 frames.
0028 Atkins, Seth. 4 frames.
0032 Austin, Travis County (Unidentified
Correspondence, 1863). 6 frames.
0038 Besser, Charles. 5 frames.
0043 Bonner, M. H. 5 frames.
0048 Boyce, William. 3 frames.
0051 Brent, G. W. 3 frames.
0054 Brown, Thomas. 3 frames.
0057 Camp Near Los Indolons (Brownsville, Texas),
1865. Unidentified. 4 frames.
0061 Camp Gano, Sevier County, 5 Miles Below the
Indian Territory Line. 4 frames.
0065 Clark, James. 5 frames.
0070 Clopton, Anthony and H. 6 frames.
0076 Cobb, Thomas R. 4 frames.
0080 Cramer, Charles. 11 frames.
0091 Divine, Patt. 4 frames.
0095 Douglas, W. S. 3 frames.
0098 Drayton, Thomas F. 8 frames.
0106 Enloe, Abraham. 13 frames.
0119 Featherston, W. S. 3 frames.
0122 Ferguson, S. W. 4 frames.
0126 Forrest, Nathan B. 4 frames.
0129 Gandy, B. P. 4 frames.
0133 Garland, Samuel. 5 frames.
0138 Gist, William. 37 frames.
0175 Harper, William. 4 frames.
0179 Helmitag, F. W. 2 frames.
0181 Hemphill, John. 2 frames.
0183 Hill, A. C. [Alexander Campbell]. 11 frames.
0194 Hunter, D. 9 frames.
0203 Hurley, W. W. 9 frames.
0212 [Unreadable]. 4 frames.
0216 Cecil (William) papers. 20 frames.
0236 Jackson, “Stonewall” (Hair from Old Sorrel’s
Tail). 3 frames.
0239 Johnson, Irwin. 3 frames.
0242 Krumbbar, W. B. 6 frames.
0248 Leach, William A. 7 frames.
0255 Lubbock, F. R. 6 frames.
0261 Lyne, W. H. 3 frames.
0264 Marsh, S. W. 5 frames.
0269 McGee, W. S. 3 frames.
0272 Miles, William (to Beauregard). 32 frames.
0304 Moffatt, J. S. 4 frames.
0308 Moon, A. B. 4 frames.
0312 Morris, R. H. 5 frames.
0317 Neal, William A., July 18, 1864. 4 frames.
0321 New London, New York, July 1862 (Unidentified
Correspondence). 4 frames.
0325 Oden, Joseph. 11 frames.
0336 Olds, W. C. 3 frames.
0339 Parker, G. M. 2 frames.
0341 Robinson, Alfred l. 3 frames.
0344 Ross, Robert. 18 frames.
0362 Smith, Georgia. 2 frames.
0364 Smith, Thomas. 6 frames.
0370 Stuart, J. E. B. 2 frames.
0372 Terrell, John C. 2 frames.
0374 Wallis, J. E. 4 frames.
0378 Ward, S. L. 3 frames.
0381 Wellborn, Abs. 3 frames.
0384 Wyatt, W. H. 3 frames.
0387 Wymangliness, Anson. 3 frames.
0390 Wynne, W. D. 4 frames.
0394 Yale, J. W. 8 frames.
0402 Miscellaneous Photocopies of Civil War Letters in
the Thomas O. Moore Collection, State Historical Society of Wisconsin. 67 frames.
0469 Foster, Thomas C. 6 frames.
0475 Civil War letters; Colonel George W. Guess to Mrs.
Sarah Horton Cockrell, 1861-1865. 128 frames.
0603 Lohr, [?]. 28 frames.
0631 Civil War Documents-Schindler’s Antique Ship
Purchase. 76 frames.
0707 Military Order # 65. 3 frames.
0710 Special Order #174, Shreveport, Louisiana,
October 27, 1863. 3 frames.
0713 Civil War Financial Statements (Arkansas). 67
frames.
0780 Poem (12th Texas Regiment). 3 frames.
0783 Conscription Documents. 28 frames.
0811 [Unidentified Folder]. 5 frames.
0816 Omissions List. 1 frame.
Civil War, Official Battle lists of 1861-1865. 2 Rolls. 16mm. National Archives RG 94. M823. YSC Location: Microfilm Cabinet 3, Drawer 6
On the two rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced nine Civil War battle lists, hereafter designated (a) thought (i), which were compiled in the War Department between the years 1867 and 1907. Lists (a) through (e) were created in the Adjutant General’s Office (AGO) for administrative and historical purposes; lists (g) and (h) were created in the Surgeon General’s Office as indexes to casualty records that were subsequently transferred to the Record and Pension Office of the AGO along with other medical records useful in acting on Pension requests from Civil War veterans. Lists (a) through (e), (g), and (h) are now part of Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94. List (f) is excerpted from the Volunteer Army Register and lists (i) is accepted from The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion.
The battle lists reproduced in this microfilm publication indicate which Union troops were engaged in particular Civil War Operations and often include additional data, such as casualties. All the battle lists in this microfilm publication are incomplete compilations and reflect the numerous inaccuracies found in the original and secondary sources from which they were compiled. Compiler’s misinterpretations of source data resulted in additional errors in the lists. Despite these shortcomings, the battle lists can serve as valuable tools in seeking out sources of data in Civil War related records.
Battle lists (a) through (d) were originally assigned letter symbols for ease of citation in the National Archives and Records Service (NARS) publication Military Operations of the Civil War: A Guide-Index to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865 (5 vols., Washington, 1968). Battle lists (e) through (i) were not so designated in the Guide-Index, but they have been assigned letter symbols in sequence with the previous four lists for ease of citation in this microfilm publication.
Battle List (a)
Battle list (a) presumably was prepared in 1867 in connection with the publication that year of the last two volumes of the
1. Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army for the Years 1861, ’62, ’63, ’64, ’65 (8 vols., Washington: Adjutant General’s Office, 1865-1867).
2. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65 (2 parts of 3 vols. Each, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1870-88).
Volunteer Army Register for the Civil War. The battle list was prepared in two handwritten versions, one arranged chronologically and the other arranged alphabetically by geographic location. The two versions contain identical information derived from muster rolls, strength returns, and other kinds of original records. For each combat, battle list (a) shows which Volunteer troop units were involved. Occasional references are provided to Regular Army participation.
A number of penciled corrections in the chronological version apparently represent an early attempt to alter or eliminate entries thought to be erroneous, but an examination of these entries shows that some were in fact valid. As battle list (a) was later used by the compilers of the Official Records for designating some of the military operations that are mentioned in its headings, lists of events, and index entries, the inaccuracies in this battle list were carried over into that publication.
Battle List (b)
From the raw data used in compiling battle list (a), a second handwritten battle list was compiled a few years later, probably in 1871. The value of battle list (b) lies in its different arrangement and inclusion of useful data that do not appear in battle list (a). However, list (b) does not include U. S. Colored Troops, as does list (a). List (b) is arranged by State and there under by arm of service, numerical designations of troop units, and dates of combats. The additional data often included casualty figures and indications of which companies or particular regiments were engaged. As States are not arranged alphabetically, it is necessary to consult the State index that precedes this battle list in this microfilm publication.
Battle List( c)
Battle list (c) was produced in connection with the preparation of an earlier, chronologically arranged version (known as the “preliminary prints”) of the Official Records. The list is in printed form and titled Chronological List of Battles, Engagements, Etc., During the Rebellion, 1861-1865, with the Designation of Troops Engaged. Although the imprint date is 1875, printing apparently was completed around 1877 or 1878, and, in spite of its title, the list covers only the years
3. U. S. War Department, the War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies ed. Lt. Col. Robert N. Scott et al. (70 vols. in 127 serial parts, plus general index volume and atlas, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901).
Battle List (d)
Battle list (d) records engagements of Regular Army troops by arm of service and there under by regiment from the time each regiment was organized through 1902. Participating companies are generally indicated for each engagement. Circumstantial evidence establishes that this typewritten list was prepared by Francis B. Heitman of the Adjutant General’s Office during the period 1891-1907. While it partly supplies the data for Regular Army troops not included in battle list (b), it does not provide casualty figures, and for this information it is necessary to consult battle list (e). Only parts of battle list (d) listing regiments for which Civil War action is shown have been filmed in this microfilm publication.
Battle List (e)
Battle List (e) is a typed excerpt from a draft that provided data for a Regular Army battle list published in volume 2 of Francis B. Heitman’s Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army from its Organization, September 29, 1789 to March 2, 1903 (2 vols., Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903). Like the Historical Register, battle list (e) is arranged chronologically and gives the geographic designation of each operation and the regiment and companies engaged. Unlike the Historical Register, it covers only the years 1861-65 and includes casualty figures and the names of officers killed, wounded, or taken prisoner.
Battle List (f)
Battle list (f) consists of selected pages from Volume 8 of the Volunteer Army Register, a War Department reference publication containing officer rosters, combat credits, and brief histories for each Civil War Volunteer regiment. The two sections of volume 8 reproduced in this microfilm publication as list (f) give for units of U. S. Colored Troops almost exactly the same data that lists (b) gives for other volunteer units. The data were presumably drawn from a now missing register of combat credits for U. S. Colored Troops apparently prepared at the same time as battle list (b). In volume 8, pages 141-319, combat designations and casualties for particular troop units are given in footnotes to rosters that are arranged by army of service and regiment. Dates of combat actions and indications of companies engaged are given in an “Index of Battles,” pages 331-342 of the volume.
Battle List (g)
Battle list (g) is actually a chronological index of Civil War casualty records that are part of Record Group 94. The handwritten list includes the geographic designations of military engagements and shows the participation of Volunteer Union troop units. Occasional references are supplied to Regular Army participation. The battle list notes corps and regiments but not individual companies involved. Names of individuals killed or wounded are often given as well. References are provided to file numbers of pertinent casualty reports, hospital registers, and other medical records.
Battle list (h)
Battle list (h) also refers to casualty data in Record Group 94. The handwritten list is contained in two volumes titles “Chronological list o Battles during the War of the Rebellion.” In addition to geographic designations and participating Volunteer Union troop units for each operation, it includes information concerning the disposition of the wounded—and often there is descriptive material about the engagement, such as its geographic location. Occasional references are also supplied to Regular Army participation. Entries cite the published sources or original records from which they were derived.
Battle list (i)
Battle list (i), excerpted from The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65, is titled “Chronological Summary of Engagements and Battles.” It notes volunteer troop participation and occasionally supplies references to Regular Army participation. While list (i) is similar to the engaged and Union losses, it is unique among them in its inclusion of Confederate casualty figures. A “Remarks and References” column in this battle list shows that the entries were derived primarily from published sources, including official reports of officers, State adjutant general office reports, newspaper accounts, and secondary works. Unpublished records, principally casualty lists, are also cited. An index to battles is at the end of the volume.
Clarke, Powhatan Diary, Mss. 893, 1862-1863 [Rapides Parish, Louisiana; also Arkansas] Location: Reel 4 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Powhatan Clarke, a native of Virginia who was educated in Paris, France, was a surgeon and professor of chemistry at Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. He served as aide-de-camp for Brig. Gen. D. M. Frost. His father-in-law was Judge Henry Boyce of Ulster Plantation near Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Col. David French Boyd (1834-1899) served as captain of engineers on Gen. Richard Taylor’s staff beginning in 1863. An educator, Boyd taught at Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy.
This collection consists of one item, a diary, 1862-1863, of Powhatan Clarke. The diary records Dr. Clarke’s trips by wagon from Ulster Plantation to Camden, Arkansas, to join Gen. D. M. Frost, his impairment by rheumatism, and his return trip to Louisiana (in the hopes of conscription and a more sheltered service). His journey took him through Rapides, Grant, Natchitoches, Bienville, Webster, and Claiborne parishes. He later traveled with Judge Henry Boyce to Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, and traveled alone through Lafayette and Iberia parishes to procure salt for Ulster Plantation. Entries record distances traveled each day, expenses incurred for repairs to the wagon and food, conditions of road, and names of people met along the way, as well as mention of the salt works at Lake Bisteneau, Louisiana. Entries describe exchanged prisoners and discharged soldiers and the rental of his wagon to the Confederate States Army quartermaster at New Iberia, Louisiana, to haul lumber and build a road to Avery Island. The volume was later used by Col. David F. Boyd and contains his military and topographical notes of the area between Sicily Island, Catahoula Parish, and Waterproof, Tensas Parish, during Boyd’s service as chief of engineers on Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor’s staff in 1863.
0149 Introductory Materials. 7 frames.
0156 Diary, 1862-1863. 48 frames.
Confederates Captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 4, 1863, list of 1 roll 16mm National Archives RG 109 M2072 Location: YSC Microfilm Cabinet 3, Drawer 2
On the single roll of this microfilm publication, M2072, are reproduced lists of Confederate soldiers captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 4, 1863. These records are part of the War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group (RG) 109, and are part of the series identified as Entry 212, Parole Rolls of Confederates, 1862-1865, in Elizabeth Bethel, Preliminary inventory of the War Department Collection of Confederate Records (Record Group 109) (National Archives, 1957; reprint, Iberian publishing Co., 1994).
The city of Vicksburg, located on the east bank of the Mississippi River midway between Memphis, TN, and New Orleans, LA, was the site of a key Confederate river defense and the focal point of Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s operations in the west from October 1862 to July 1863. The surrender of its fortifications and a garrison of 29,500 men on July 4, 1863, was a severe psychological blow to the Confederacy and, combined with the simultaneous defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg, PA, represented a manpower loss the South could ill afford.
In 1861, Vicksburg was a commercial center and transportation hub for Mississippi and Louisiana. When the war began, Vicksburg took on an even greater significance as one of the key links between the eastern Confederacy and the Trans-Mississippi South, serving as a transit point for troops and as a port of entry for Louisiana salt, sugar, and molasses, the latter two frequently exchanged for meat for the armies. Efforts to safeguard the city became crucial in the spring of 1862 when Memphis and New Orleans fell to Federal forces. Vicksburg then remained the only railhead on the east bank of the river and, as such, provided the last direct link between the eastern and western halves of the Confederacy. Its retention also effectively blocked Federal waterborne communications down the river.
Grant, eager to take Vicksburg and avoid a protracted siege, attacked the city’s defenses on May 19 and again three days later. Both assaults were repulsed with heavy casualties. He thus was forced to resort to a siege. Once complete, the 12-mile long Federal siege line paralleled the Confederate earthworks from an average distance of six hundred yards and was anchored at both ends on the Mississippi River. By mid-June, 77,000 men surrounded the city.
By the end of June, the situation within Vicksburg was rapidly deteriorating. Citizens sought shelter from daily bombardments by hiding in basements or digging caves into the hillsides. Walter became scarce and bread rations were reduced. As the meat supply dwindled, mule meat was substituted for bacon.
Only July 3, the Confederate commander, Maj. Gen. John C. Pemberton, met Grant between the lines and arranged to surrender the following day.
Confederate Military Report, Mss. 1328, 1862 [Richmond, Virginia] Location: Reel 4 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of one item, a Confederate military report, 25 July 1862. The report from Camp Totopotomoy records battles and skirmishes around Richmond, Virginia, 25 June-6 July 1862. Much of the report concerns activities of the 4th Virginia Cavalry, the Jefferson Davis Legion, Pelham’s Battery, and other units of Stuart’s Cavalry in Virginia. Descriptions of the Battle of Gaines Mill, 27 June 1862; the destruction of the White House, New Kent County, 29 June 1862; the shelling of McClellan’s army from Evelington Heights, Charles City County, 3 July 1862; and other engagements are included in the report.
0204 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0207 Military Report, 1862. 9 frames.
Confederate Naval and Marine personal records, 7 rolls. 16mm. National Archives RG 109 M260 Location: YSC Microfilm Cabinet 3, Drawer 5.
On the 7 rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced records relating to persons serving in the Confederate Navy and Marine Corps. These records are in three series, as follows: (1) compiled hospital and prison records of naval and marine personnel, (2) reference cards and papers relating to naval personnel, and (3) reference cards and papers relating to marine personnel. The first series, arranged alphabetically by surname of sailor or marine, consists of cards containing abstracts of entries relating to the individual in original Union and Confederate hospital registers, prescription books, and Union prison and parole rolls; and the originals of papers, primarily from prison records, relating to the individual. The second and third series consist of reference cards and the originals of any papers relating solely to a particular sailor or marine, arranged alphabetically by surname. The reference cards indicate the rank of the sailor or marine and contain references to vessel papers, payrolls, muster rolls, and volumes in the War Department Collection of Confederate Records.
The hospital and prison records of naval and marine personnel were compiled during the period that the military service records of Confederate soldiers were being prepared. This compilation was begun in 1903 under the direction of Brig. Gen. Fred C. Ainsworth, head of the Record and Pension Office of the War Department. Abstracts were made from documents in the War Department Collection of Confederate Records and from documents borrowed by the War Department in an effort to obtain as nearly complete service records as possible. The abstracts made from the original records were verified by a separate operation of comparison, and every conceivable precaution was taken to ensure that the abstracts were accurate. The exact date that the compilation of the series of reference cards and papers relating to naval and marine personnel was begun is not known. The work was probably performed by the Archive Office of The Adjutant General’s Office in the latter part of the 19th century.
Some of the original documents relating to a particular individual were at some time removed from the second and third series; in some instances, however, the envelopes, which show the serviceman’s name and rank and form which the original documents were removed, were retained in the files. The documents so removed were transferred to the Navy Department before the War Department Collection of Confederate Records was accessioned by the National Archives and are now part of Record Group 45, Naval Records Collection of the Office and Naval Records and Library, in the National Archives.
The records reproduced in this microcopy are part of a body of records in the National Archives designated as Record Group 109, War Department Collection of Confederate Records.
Records relating to a Confederate sailor or marine may not appear in this microcopy for several reasons. First, the series containing reference cards and papers relating to naval and marine personnel are known to be incomplete. Second, the sailor or marine may not have served in a naval or marine unit. Third, he may have served under a different name or used a different spelling of his name. Fourth, proper records of his service may not have been made, or, if made, may have been lost or destroyed in the confusion that often attended the initial mobilization, subsequent military operation, or final surrender of Confederate forces. Fifth, the references to the individual in the original records may be so vague that it has not been practicable to determine his correct name or the unit in which he served.
The originals of naval and marine muster rolls, shipping articles, clothing receipts, descriptive rolls, and some payrolls are part of Record Group 45. There is no complete index to these rolls.
Sometimes presumed Confederate naval or marine service is shown by the records to have been service in a civilian capacity, as in the case of government employees. Evidence of such service or of having aided the Confederate cause as a civilian in some other way may sometimes be obtained from a series of records in the National Archives is known as the “Citizens file.” This series consists of Confederate documents each of which relates only to a particular civilian. They are arranged alphabetically by name of person and are not indexed. Other information about the activities of Confederate civilians is contained in a similar unindexed series of documents accumulated by Union provost marshals and known as the “Provost Marshal File.” The National Archives has still other Confederate relating to particular Confederate civilians or servicemen. The records described in this paragraph are available for examination in the National Archives by inquirers or their agents.
Confederate Soldiers, Register of, sailors, and citizens, who died in Federal prisons and military hospitals in the north, 1861-1865. 1 roll. 16mm. National Archives RG 92 M918 Location: Microfilm Cabinet 3, Drawer 2.
On the single roll of this microfilm publication is reproduced a 665-page register of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and citizens who died in Federal prisons and military hospitals in the North, 1861-65. The register was compiled in 1912 in the Office of the Commissioner for Marking the Graves of Confederate Dead and is now a part of the Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92.
Because of a general breakdown in prisoner exchanges late in the Civil War, many Confederate soldiers, sailors, and Citizens ultimately died in Federal prisons or military hospitals. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton reported in 1866 that according to the report of the Commissary General of Prisoners, over 26,000 deaths had occurred among rebel prisoners of war. Initially, little care was exercised in marking the graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors buried in cemeteries at or near the prisons or hospitals in which they died. Federal legislation from 1867 to 1873 provided for the burial of Union soldiers in national cemeteries and for the marking of their graves with durable headstones. There were no specific provisions in this early legislation for Confederate dead, but their graves were sometimes marked similarly to those of civilians; i.e., with a thin headstone containing the number of the grave and the name of the occupant. However, many of the non-Union graves had been marked with wooden headboards that ultimately disintegrated, although the names of the interred were often preserved in burial registers.
Interest in caring for the graves of Confederates in the North was stimulated by President William McKinley, who advocated Federal responsibility in an address delivered at Atlanta, GA., on December 14, 1898. On June 5, 1899, Dr. Samuel E. Lewis, commander of the Charles Broadway Rouss Camp No. 1191 (District of Columbia) of the United Confederate Veterans, petitioned President McKinley on behalf of his organization for the reinterment of 264 Confederate soldiers, then buried at the National Soldiers Home and Arlington with suitably marked graves. A Federal statute of March 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 630), appropriated $2,500 or as much of that sum as necessary for the purpose. A subsequent statue of February 7, 1903 (32 Stat. 804), provided for appropriations not to exceed $250 annually for the care and improvement of the Confederate Mound at the Oak Woods Cemetery at Chicago, Ill. The act of April 28, 1904 (33 Stat. 496), provided similarly for the Confederate cemetery at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio.
By 1901 Confederate veterans’ organizations were advocating a uniform system of Federal care for all Confederate graves in Northern cemeteries’. Dr. Samuel E. Lewis, in a report of April 25, 1901, to Gen. John B. Gordon, Commander in Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, called for Federal action in caring for the 28,000 graves of Confederate dead in the North. Subsequently, at the Memphis, Tenn., meeting of the national organization, May 28-30, 1901, a resolution was adopted requesting that “Congress take appropriate action looking to the care and preservation of the graves of the Confederate dead now in the various cemeteries in the Northern States.”
The bill first introduced in Congress on December 6, 1902, which subsequently became law on March 9, 1906 (34 Stat. 56), provided “for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate Army and Navy who died in Northern prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died.” The sum of $200,000, or as much of that as needed, was appropriated to carry out the work. The legislation unauthorized and directed the Secretary of War to ascertain the location and condition of the Confederate graves, to acquire possession or control over the burial grounds, and to have prepared an accurate burial register showing the location and number of the grave and the name, company, regiment, or vessel, and State of each deceased Confederate soldier and sailor. White marble headstones inscribed with this information were to be placed at each grave. The Secretary of information was to be placed at each grave. The Secretary of War was also authorized and directed to appoint a commissioner to perform the necessary work preliminary to the actual marking of September 1910. James H. Berry was then Commissioner from October 1910 until October 1912, when the office was discontinued. Dr. Samuel E. Lewis subsequently served as Commissioner after the Office was reestablished in March 1914. The original 1906 legislation establishing the Office of the Commissioner was extended by Congressional joint resolutions approved February 26, 1908 (35 Stat. 567), February 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 875), December 23, 1910 (36 Stat. 1453), March 14, 1914 (38 Stat. 768), and April 17, 1916 (39 Stat. 52).
The typescript register herein reproduced was compiled in accordance with the 1906 statute; the work was completed by 1912. The burial lists are generally arranged alphabetically by name of prison camp or other location where the deaths occurred. The table of contents at the beginning of the volume is similarly arranged, although a few cemetery names are also listed; appropriate page numbers are cited in each instance. The individual burial lists are arranged alphabetically by name of deceased and generally give the name, rank, company, regiment, date of death, and number and location of grave for each individual interred. However, this information in its entirety is not available for all cases. Some cemeteries, for example, did not bury the dead in numbered graves, and in some instances, regimental and company designations or dates of death are not entered in the register. A few entries are for private Confederate citizens interred in the various cemeteries and some are for unknown graves. Other entries are for bodies no longer interred in the particular cemetery under which they are listed, and these entries contain such notations as “removed,” “sent home,” and “body taken home by friends.” All the pages for the Green Lawn Cemetery in Indianapolis, Ind., have been lined through and a notation added that “Remains of above removed to lot 285, Sec. 32, Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana and reinterred as unknowns on Oct. 27, 1931.” Some of the entries contain references to explanatory notes that are at the beginning or end of the burial list.
Confederate States of America, Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 17th. Company E, Muster Roll. Confederate States Army Collection (C), Mss. 521, 1864 [Georgia] Location: Reel 3 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
The collection consists of one item, a muster roll, 29 February-30 April 1864, of Company E, 17th Georgia Infantry Regiment, CSA Army. The muster roll is signed by Capt. Joshua N. Titus; it records the company’s payroll and lists names and absences of company members.
0012 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0015 Muster Roll, 17th Georgia Infantry Regiment, 29
February-30 April 1864. 9 frames.
Confederate States of America, Army, List of Officers. Confederate States Army Collection (J), Mss. 247, 1864 [Richmond, Virginia] Location: Reel 3 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of one item, a list of officers employed in the office of the provost marshal, Confederate States Army, Richmond, Virginia. The list, signed by provost Isaac Howell Carrington, is dated 5 April 1864.
N. B. A. related collection among the holdings of the Virginia Historical Society is Mss3C7604a, CSA Army, Department of Henrico Papers, 1861-1864, included in UPA’s Confederate military manuscripts, Series A.
0024 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0027 List of Officers, 5 April 1864. 4 frames.
Confederate States of America, Army. Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, 8th, Muster Rolls and Plan. Confederate States Army Collection (L), Mss. 1059, 1865 [Louisiana] Location: Reel 3 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Commanded by Col. B. W. Clark, the 8th Louisiana Cavalry Brigade was part of the state troops mustered into the Confederate States Army on 26 July 1864. These troops served under Brig. Gen. Joseph L. Brent, First Louisiana Cavalry Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department.
This collection consists of twelve items, unsigned muster rolls, ca. May 1865, listing the field, staff, and band members from companies A through I and K of the 8th Louisiana Cavalry Regiment. Included is a printed plan showing positions of officers and men in formation for dress parade.
0031 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0034 Muster Rolls and Plan, Ca. May 1865. 32 frames.
Confederate States of America, 1861-1865; Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 (Microfiches Volumes 1—7)
The Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 was printed in a seven-volume set between 1904 and 1905 as Senate Document No. 234 of the U.S. Serial Set, 58th Congress, 2nd session. A Senate Resolution dated January 28, 1904, directed the secretary of war, Elihu Root, to transmit to the U.S. Senate a copy of the Journal of the Provisional Congress and of the 1st and 2nd Congresses of the Confederate States of America.
Volume 1 contains the Journal of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in Montgomery, Alabama, and an appendix containing the Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States. The Journals of the Senate, 1st Congress of the Confederate States of America, are found in volume 2 (1st and 2nd sessions) and volume 3 (3rd and 4th sessions). The Journals document the proceedings of the open, secret, and executive sessions of the Senate, which were held in Richmond, Virginia. The Journals of the Senate, 2nd Confederate Congress, are found in volume 4 (1st and 2nd sessions).
The Journals of the House of Representatives of the 1st Congress of the Confederate States of America are found in volume 5 (1st and 2nd sessions) and volume 6 (3rd and 4th sessions). The Journals of the House of Representatives of the 2nd Confederate Congress are found in volume 7 (1st and 2nd sessions). The Journals document the proceeding of the House, including both open and secret sessions.
Confederate States of America, Army. Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 16th, Muster and Pay Rolls. Confederate States Army Collection (F), Mss. 587, 1862-1863 [Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia] Location: Reel 4 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
The collection consists of twenty-two items, muster and payroll, 1862-1863, of the 16th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Items include rolls of Company D, signed by John W. Addison, March 1862-December 1863, and rolls of Company H, signed by Robert P. Oliver, July 1862-December 1863. The collection documents the companies’ service in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia.
0216 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
0221 Muster Rolls, 1862-1863. 112 frames.
Confederate States of America Records, 1856-1915 [Jefferson, Texas; also Alabama and Virginia] Location: Reel 11—16; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of soldiers’ personal correspondence, diaries, and reminiscences; official Confederate Medical Department papers and miscellaneous papers relating to military medical matters; official documents orders, and letters relating to Confederate affairs, both civil and military; the William W. Hunter papers dealing primarily with the Confederate Navy but also containing miscellaneous military documents; Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy Quartermaster’s Division papers; Cotton Bureau records; muster rolls; and fourteen Confederate service records.
0817 Introductory Materials. 11 frames.
0828 Omissions List. 2 frames.
0830 Folder 1, [Box 2C486, William W.] Hunter Papers,
[1861-1864]. 130 frames.
0960 Folder 2, [Box 2C486, William W.] Hunter Papers,
[1861-1864]. 222 frames.
Confederate Vessel Papers: papers pertaining to vessels involved with the Confederate States of America 32 rolls 16mm National Archives RG 109, M909. YSC Location: Cabinet 3 Drawer 6
On the 32 rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced an index volume and papers pertaining to vessels of or involved with the Confederate States of America, “Vessel Papers:” The series consists of several thousand alphabetically arranged jacketed files, most, but not all, of which pertain to vessels that served the Confederate Government from 1861-1865. The “Vessel Papers” are a part of the War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109.
Most of the original papers reproduced in this microfilm publication were created by the Confederate War and Treasury Departments. After the Civil War the records were among those of the Confederacy that came into U. S. War Department custody. A number of years later, the present series of “Vessel Papers” was assembled by the Archive Office and its successor, the Confederate Archives Division, in the War Department.
The Archive Office originated officially with a War Department order of July 21, 1865, which specified “That a Bureau be organized in the Adjutant General’s Office for the collection, safekeeping, and publication of the Rebel Archives that have come into the possession of this Government.” The office was officially designated as the “Archive Office of the War Department” by a subsequent issuance of August 23, 1865, and on August 19, 1867, it was officially rendered an intergral part of the Adjutant General’s Office. An order of July 24, 1880, directed that the Archive Office be merged into the War Records Office of the War Department, but a modification of August 10, 1880, placed it in the Record Division of the Office of the Secretary of War. The Archive Office, now designated the Confederate Archives Division, was once again placed under the Adjutant General’s Office by an order of February 7, 1888, and remained there until transferred to the War Department Record and Pension Office by an order of May 15, 1894.
Custody by the War Department offices of the records comprising the “Vessel Papers” is indicated by stamps that appear on many of the documents. The most frequently used stamp is a large oval one reading “Record Division, Rebel Archives, War Department,” apparently a designation used by the Archive Office. A variety of smaller oval stamps can also be found, including those reading “Office of Secretary of War, Record Division,” “Adjutant General’s Office, Confederate Archives Division,” and “Confederate Archives.” Occasionally the date appears on the stamp.
The “Vessel Papers” was one of several files created during the late 19th century to facilitate research in claims cases. Following the Civil War, Southern citizens filed claims seeking compensation for property losses allegedly inflicted by Union forces. The treasury and Justice Departments, Southern Claims Commission, Court of Claims, and congressional claims committees were involved in processing these cases, and all, upon occasion, required documentary evidence based upon the confederate records in War Department custody. If disloyalty of claimant could be established by documenting services performed for the Confederacy, the claim could then be disallowed at a great saving to the Government.
Many of the claims submitted were from Southern vessel owners or their heirs, and the Archive Office listed 6 such cases pending before the Southern Claims Commission in 1873. The “Vessel Papers” were assembled during the following decade to facilitate references in these instances, and the present arrangement apparently was perfected before 1890. Subsequent additions, however, were made as late as the 20th century.
The “Vessel Papers” relate to vessels involved in any way with the Confederate Government. Most of the files in the series are relatively small, containing few, and, in many instances, no original Confederate documents. Some files, however, do contain larger aggregations of papers, and a select list of these appears as appendix A to this publication. Most of the files pertain to privately owned shipping that carried passengers or freight for the Confederacy, but a number of the files also pertain to vessels of the Confederate States Navy or Government. Some files also pertain to non-Confederate shipping, including British and other foreign vessels that entered and departed from Confederate ports and Union merchant or naval vessels that either engaged in actions with Confederate ships or were captured by the Confederates. A few files do not pertain to specific vessels but to shipping companies and other miscellaneous subjects, and they are listed both in the accompanying index volume and in appendix B.
Most of the documents in the “Vessel Papers” are dated 1861-65. Frequently encountered are vouchers and voucher abstracts pertaining to the transportation of passengers or freight for the Confederate Government. The series also includes correspondence, papers pertaining to accounts, receipts, invoices, requisitions, claims, contracts and agreements, bills of landing, passenger and crew lists, shipping articles, muster rolls and payrolls, reports of persons and articles hired, insurance policies, ships licenses, reports of the Second Auditor of the Confederate Treasury Department regarding vessel claims, accounts of proceedings in Confederate prize courts, decrees of condemnation and sale, and lists of foreign vessels entering and leaving Confederate ports. In an atypical instance, the file for the cruiser C. S. S. Alabama includes original plans drafted by the Laird Company in Great Britain, which constructed the vessel.
Some of the documents in the “Vessel Papers” predate or postdate the Civil War. Most of the earlier items pertain to vessels operating before 1861, which later served the Confederacy or were captured by Confederate forces. Post-civil War documents generally pertain to claims actions instituted from the 1870’s to 1890’s and include copies of congressional bills relating to vessel claims, House of Representatives and Senate documents, and research compilations by the Archive Office and the Confederate Archives Division.
Many of the files constituting the “Vessel Papers” contain references prepared by the Archive Office and the Confederate Archives Division. In some instances the information appears on the file jackets, but usually on cards placed within. There are some cross-references to the other files reproduced in this microfilm publication. The citations include references to chaptered and numbered book records; letters received by the Confederate Secretary of War, the Adjutant and Inspector General, and the Quartermaster General; vouchers among the papers relating to citizens or business firms (“Citizens File”); payrolls for civilian and slave labor; letters received by military commands; returns of port collectors; military inspection reports; sequestration papers; and other series. There are also references to the published War and Navy Department compilations The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1881-1901) and The War of the Rebellion, a compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies (1894-1922). Frequently, files consist solely of reference cards (or jackets containing the information) and no original papers.
Crescent Regiment Descriptive List, Confederate States Army Collection, Mss. 1908, 1862 [Camp Bisland, Bayou Teche, Louisiana] Location: Reel 3 and 21 Confederate Military Manuscript, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
The 24th Louisiana Infantry Regiment was activated in early 1862. After several engagements, the unit was garrisoned at Camp Bisland, near Bayou Teche, later 1862. Company K of the 24th Regiment was commanded by Capt. Andrew D. Lewis during most of 1862 and 1863. During his absences, 1st Lt. H. S. Losee was the senior officer. The 24th Regiment merged with the 11th and 12th Louisiana Infantry Battalions in July 1863 to form the Consolidated Crescent Regiment.
This collection consists of one item, a descriptive list, 26 November 1862, of the Crescent Regiment, created at Camp Bisland and signed by 1st Lt. H. S. Losee. Entitled “Descriptive List of Cap. Lewis’ Company K, Crescent Regiment,” the list contains names and descriptions of twenty-one Confederate soldiers, including rank, age, eye and hair color, complexion, height, place of birth, civilian occupation, and enlistment information.
0006 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0010 Crescent Regiment Descriptive List, 26 November
1862. 2 frames.
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Dailey, Henry W. Papers, 1845-1950 [Bexar County, Goliad County, Hays County, Karnes County, Kenedy, and San Antonio, Texas] Location: reel 16 & 17; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
These materials, which were collected or written by Dailey (born 1879), concern the history of Karnes County and include land records, pioneer reminiscences, photographs, maps, automobile registrations, and school rosters. Also included are Civil War muster rolls, quartermaster records, and a veterans’ roster; a scrapbook concerning Gregorio Cortez; and correspondence of Caleb J. Church (died 1890), teacher in New Braunfels and Karnes County.
0503 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0507 Karnes County Schools: Books, Pamphlets,
Historical Narrative, Photographs, Clippings, Enrollment Lists. 278 frames.
0785 Karnes County Deed Records. 25 frames.
0810 Correspondence, 1936, and Muster Rolls. 16
frames.
0826 Carlos Martinez Abstract and Application. 86
frames.
0912 Caleb J. Church Correspondence, 1845-1890. 23
frames.
0935 Trip of Dailey and Blaise to Stribbling Crossing.
11 frames.
0946 Random Notes on Caesar Bazor Story. 15 frames.
0961 Civil War Data. 1 frame.
0962 A Tale of Men Who knew Not Fear-by Gertrude
Harris. 9 frames.
0971 Requisitions. 7 frames.
0978 Kenedy, Texas, Data. 1 frame.
0979 County Assessor’s Abstract of Kenedy, Texas, as
of January 1, 1888, and Succeeding Years. 38 frames.
1017 Early Historical Background of Kenedy, Texas. 98 frames.
1115 Kenedy Lodge. 9 frames.
1124 Original Kenedy-Nichols Town Site. 3 frames.
1127 A Historical Review of the Post Office at Kenedy,
Texas. 31 frames.
1158 The Kenedy Advance. 6 frames.
1164 Since the Coming of the Railroad. 6 frames.
1170 Automobile Register-Karnes City. 12 frames.
1182 Eastern Star. 5 frames.
1187 Excerpts from the Trail Drivers of Texas. 68
frames.
1255 “The Bonnie Blue Flag.” 4 frames.
1259 Religious Development. 17 frames.
1276 Scrapbook Material. 4 frames.
Reel 17
0003 Scrapbook [Gregorio Cortez]. 71 frames.
0074 Maps. 15 frames.
0089 [Untitled Folder-Muster Rolls]. 30 frames.
0119 Photographs of Persons and Places. 26 frames.
0145 [Untitled Folder-Muster Rolls]. 27 frames.
Dashiell, Jeremiah Yellott Papers, 1848-1906 [Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and Santa Rita, Texas] Location: Reel 17; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection comprises personal and family papers of Dashiell (1804-1888), physician, Confederate soldier, and editor of the San Antonio Herald. It also contains material relating to the military and engineering careers of Dashiell’s son-in-law, William T. Mechling, as U.S. Army and Confederate soldier and as civil engineer in Central American road and railway constructions (1867-1873). Included are legal papers, diaries (1856-1858), account and memorandum books, a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, and a sermon.
0172 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0175 Omissions List. 2 frames.
0177 Correspondence, 1860-1880. 241 frames.
0418 Biography. 13 frames.
0431 Subcollection: William Thomas Mechling (son-in
law)- Diary, April 1864, Pleasant Hill. 15 frames.
0446 Subcollection: William Thomas Mechling (son-in
law)- Military Papers, 1861-1864. 79 frames.
0525 [Untitled Folder-Miscellaneous]. 13 frames.
DeClouet, Alexandre and Family Papers, 1787-1905, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; Location: Reel 5 and 6; Records of Southern Plantations, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of financial records, legal documents, political materials, correspondence, diaries, memorandum books, and time books of Alexandre DeClouet and his family. Alexandre DeClouet owned and operated several plantations in St. Martin Parish, served in the Confederate Congress, and after the Civil War was active in the White League, a semi-military group that opposed civil and political rights for African Americans. Several items in the collection pertain to DeClouet’s political interests and his association with the White League. For example, in the first of the political materials folders (Reel 5, Frame 0113), there is an “Address to the Citizens of St. Martin” and a set of resolutions passed at a White League meeting. One item of correspondence (Reel 5, Frame 0151) is a request for DeClouet to address members of The White League. Several diary entries for 1868 also pertain to DeClouet’s white supremacist views. For example, an October 15, 1868, entry describes a barbecue and political rally held by African Americans. DeClouet describes the participants as “monkies” and summarizes the content of the speeches in a highly derogatory tone.
Beyond DeClouet’s political involvement, this collection contains important detail about the operation of sugar plantations during the Reconstruction period. Diary entries include discussions of agricultural operations on DeClouet’s plantations, lists of house servants and field hands, frequent mention of weather conditions, work regimes, and comments about DeClouet’s activities beyond the plantation, such as social gatherings and church attendance. The collection concludes with a series of time books for 1869 and 1877—1884. These time books record the names of laborers, total days worked, the daily wage rate, and the total amount paid by DeClouet to each laborer. The Alexandre DeClouet and Family Papers begin at Frame 0001 of reel 5 and continue through Frame 0422 of Reel 6. A one-item collection of one letter by DeClouet follows, beginning at Frame 0423 of Reel 6.
0001 Introductory Materials. 2 frames.
0003 Financial-Ledger Sheets, 1880 and 1886-1860. 21
Frames.
0024 Financial-Joseph Alexandre Declouet, 1794.
Frames.
0026 Financial-Receipts, Accounts : Alexandre E.
Declouet, 1838-1888. 7 frames.
0033 Financial-Receipts, Accounts: Paul L. DeClouet,
1870-1889. 9 frames.
0042 Financial-Receipts, Accounts: Anna St. Claire,
1888-1893. 11 frames.
0053 Financial-Agricultural Tallies and Accounts, Paul L. DeClouet, 1880-1905. 15 frames.
0068 Financial-Plantation Management, [1828], 1877
1900, and Undated. 7 frames.
0075 Legal-Plantation Management, 1795 and 1886
1887. 9 frames.
0084 Legal-Visas, Alexandre E. DeClouet, 1832-1833. 5
frames.
0089 Legal-Roman Family, Purchase of Dryades
Market, 1868. 8 frames.
0097 Legal-Testamentary, Adrien Dumartrait, 1855
1856. 11 frames.
0108 Legal-Testamentary, Dr. Nue Betournage, 1877
1888 and Undated. 5 frames.
0113 Political-Addresses, Resolutions, 1872 and 1874.
25 frames.
0138 Political-Election Materials, 1867-1878 and
Undated. 11 frames.
0149 Correspondence-to Etienne Chevalier DeClouet,
1787. 2 frames.
0151 Correspondence-to Alexandre E. DeClouet, 1861
1884. 10 frames.
0161 Personal, Undated, 1800s. 7 frames.
0168 Newspaper Clippings, 1887 and Undated, 1800s.
5 frames.
0173 Volume 1, Diary, 1866. 65 frames.
DeClouet, Alexandre Letter, 1861 St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; Location: Reel 6, Records of Southern Plantations, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of a letter written by Alexandre DeClouet from Montgomery, Alabama, to C. G. Memenger, secretary of the treasury for the Confederate States of America. The letter recommends W. H. S. Taylor for a position in the Treasury Department.
0423 Alexandre DeClouet Letter, 1861. 4 frames.
Major Topic: Confederate States of America,
Treasury Department.
Delmer, Alexander Telegram, Mss. 3271, 1865 [Washington, D.C.]. Location: Reel 4A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of one item, a telegram, 1 June 1865, from war correspondent Alexander Delmer to the New Orleans Times. The telegram describes the circumstances of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the persons involved, and the murder trial. It relates Jefferson Davis’s comments on the murder.
0333 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0337 Telegram, 1865. 4 frames.
Devereux, John G. Papers, 1791-1890, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Location: Reel 14, Antebellum Southern Plantations.
John G. Devereux was a hardware merchant and banker of New Orleans, Louisiana and a Confederate veteran. Stephen Van Wickle was sheriff of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, ca 1819-1835, and business and legal agent for Valerien Ledoux (d. 1853), a Pointe Coupee sugar planter. In 1835, J. C. Van Wickle, a sugar planter and possibly Stephen’s son, took over the position of sheriff, as well as the management of the Ledoux estate. Despite being named for John G. Devereux, this collection documents little of his personal, business, or military life. Better documented in the papers are the activities of Stephen and J. C. Van Wickle. No connection between the Van Wickle and John G. Devereux is known.
The collection contains military and business papers of John G. Devereux, and correspondence and financial and legal papers of Stephen and J.C. Van Wickle. An account book and other volumes from Wexford and Dublin, Ireland, seem to belong to John Devereux’s father. Devereux’s Civil War records chiefly relate to the Siege of Vicksburg and consist of military correspondence, including letters from Ulysses S. Grant; muster rolls; items relating to Confederate prisoners; a list of slaves used as laborers; and other items. Business papers relate chiefly to Devereux’s banking career. Financial and legal materials of the Van Wickles comprise sheriff’s plantation, personal, and merchant accounts, and include account books, deeds, warrants, judgments, and court orders. An 1842 bill of sale for slaves and a list of slaves are included. Miscellaneous items of interest are a transcription of a speech by Louisiana governor Henry W. Allen, 1863; a ledger of a cotton press and cotton press association, presumably in Pointe Coupee Parish, 1880-1883; and a biographical sketch of Martin Luther Smith.
The extensive account books and papers the Van Wickles kept while filling the office of sheriff of Pointe Coupee Parish provide an excellent opportunity for examining the tax and legal structure of the parish. They also offer a good source of information on land and financial disputes on the Louisiana frontier. Plantation accounts kept by J.C. Van Wickle, both for himself and Valerien Ledoux, offer insight into sugar planting and financial relationships in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Biographical Note:
John G. Devereux (fl. 1856-1890) was a merchant and banker of New Orleans, Louisiana, and a Confederate veteran. He may have been the son of John Devereux (fl. 1822), a Dublin merchant and shipper. Between at least 1856 and 1859, the younger Devereux operated a hardware business in New Orleans, supplying local planters, businesses, and institutions with metalwork, tools, and plumbing supplies. With the outbreak of war, Devereux entered the Louisiana Artillery and assumed the rank of lieutenant. Upon his promotion to major, he became assistant adjutant general to Major General Martin Luther Smith (1819-1866), commander of the Confederate 3rd Brigade. After the war, Devereux served as cashier of the Southern Bank and as administrator of the Charity Hospital of New Orleans. One document shows that he served as executor of the estate of Thomas Jefferson Cooley in 1887. He married Sarah P. Chilton (d. 1870) in 1867.
Stephen Van Wickle was sheriff of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, from around 1819 until 1835. He also served as a business and legal agent for Valerien Ledoux (d. 1853), a Pointe Coupee sugar planter. In 1835 J. C. Van Wickle, possibly Stephen’s son, took over the position of sheriff, as well as the management of the Ledoux estate. Evidence suggests that he was also himself a sugar planter.
Omissions
A list of omissions from the John G. Devereux Papers is provided on reel 14, frame 1035, and includes Subseries 3.2, Mercantile Accounts and Related Volumes, 1822-1883; Series 4, Civil War Records, 1861-1865 and Undated; and Series 5, Other Papers, 1859-1890 and Undated.
0547 Introductory Materials. 16 frames.
Series 1: Subseries 1.1: 1791-1848
0563 Description of Subseries 1.1. 1 frame.
0564 Folder 1, 1791, 1827, 1829, 1833, 1841-1842,
1848. 28 frames.
Subseries 1.2: 1888, 1890, and Undated
0592 Description of Subseries 1.2. 1 frame.
0593 Folder 2, 1888, 1890, and Undated. 7 frames.
Series 2: Subseries 2.1
0600 Description of Subseries 2.1. 1 frame.
0601 Folder 3, 1811-1836. 63 frames.
0664 Folder 4, 1837-1850. 56 frames.
Subseries 2.2
0720 Description of Subseries 2.2. 1 frame.
0721 Folder 5, 1865, 1870, 1887, and Undated. 12
frames.
Series 3: Subseries 3.1
0733 Description of Subseries 3.1. 1 frame.
0734 Folder 6, Volume 1, J. C. Van Wickle for Ledoux,
Memorandum Book, 1841-1845. 12 frames.
0746 Folder 7, Volume S-2, Stephen Van Wickle and J.
C. Van Wickle, Sheriff’s Fee Book, 1819-1870. 133 frames.
0879 Folder 8, Enclosures from Volume S-2, 1820
1870. 46 frames.
0925 Folder 9, Volume 3, Valerien Ledoux and J. C. Van
Wickle, Account Book, 1832-1874. 31 frames.
0957 Folder 10, Volume 4, Stephen Van wickle and J. C.
Van Wickle, Account Book, 1832-1874. 31 frames.
0998 Folder 11, Enclosures from Volume 4, 1832-1874.
9 frames.
1007 Folder 12, Volume 5, Valerien Ledoux and J. C.
Van Wickle, Account Book, 1849-1883. 28 frames.
Omissions
1035 List of Omissions from the John G. Devereux
Papers. 1 frame.
Devine, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1861-1867 [Houston, LaGrange, and San Antonio, Texas; also Louisiana, District of Columbia, and Mexico] Location: Reel 17; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
The papers of Thomas J. Devine (1820-1890), lawyer and statesman, pertain to his appointment as district judge, his work as a member of the Texas Committee of Public Safety (1861), his work as Confederate States judge including the confiscation action of Confederate States of America versus Unionists John Twohig and J. D. Seaton, and his interest in the Board of Trade of Eagle Pass, Texas (1890). Included are five manuscript documents, an envelope, and a typescript volume of correspondence and military and legal papers. Correspondents include Confederate Generals David E. Twiggs, Ben McCullough, Hamilton P. Bee, and Edmund Kirby Smith; Confederate President Jefferson Davis; and U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward.
0538 Introductory Materials. 6 frames.
0544 Legal Documents, 1861-1862. 11 frames.
0555 Letters, 1861-1867. 73 frames.
0628 Correspondence, 1890. 2 frames.
Dickson, Joseph J. Muster Roll, 1861 [Lamar County, Texas] Location: Reel 17; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
Muster roll of Company F, Ninth Regiment, Texas Infantry, Confederate States Army, enrolled in Lamar County, 1861, by Colonel Maxey and commanded by Captain Dickson.
0630 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0633 Muster Roll, Company F, [Ninth] Texas Infantry
Regiment, 1861. 7 frames.
Dixon, George M. Papers, Mss. 2616, 1861-1863 [Union Parish, Louisiana; also Mississippi]. Location: Reel 4A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
George M. Dixon was a merchant of Downsville, Union Parish, Louisiana. He served as a sergeant in the Louisiana Infantry, 12th Regiment.
This collection consists of eight items, papers, 1861-1865, of George M. Dixon. Items include articles of agreement and letters of George M. Dixon to his sister, addressed to A. E. Walworth, Downsville, Louisiana. The letters from a Confederate soldier describe campaigns in Mississippi and Louisiana, including the battles of Vicksburg and Port Hudson.
0341 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0345 Papers, 1861-1865. 18 frames.
Dixon, William Y. Papers, Mss. 3423, 1860-1905 [East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana; also Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia]. Location: Reel 4A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
William Y. Dixon (1843-1874), son of Methodist minister Thomas F. Dixon (1818-1906), was a student at Centenary College, Jackson, Louisiana, before and after the Civil War. He was a soldier in the Confederate army, serving in Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia. He became a schoolteacher in Columbia, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, after the war. His brother, John Wesley Dixon, also served in the Confederate Army.
This collection consists of fourteen items and nine manuscript volumes, 1860-1905 (bulk 1860-1874), of William Y. Dixon. Items, 1863-1899 and 1905, include steamboat schedules, 1872-1874; a biographical sketch of John Wesley Dixon, 1864; and photographs of Centenary College, undated. Volumes included on the microfilm consist of four diaries, 1860-1871, recording Dixon’s experiences during the Civil War, and including descriptions of battles at Baton Rouge, August 1862; Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1862; and Port Hudson, Louisiana, 1863, and lists of deaths in battles. Topics covered by the diaries include daily activities in army camps, 1860-1864; transportation of troops by steamboats, 1863; diseases among soldiers and civilians, 1860-1864; and the involvement of African American Federal soldiers in fighting at Port Hudson.
A list of omissions from William Y. Dixon Papers, Mss. 3423, 1860-1905, is provided on Reel 4, Frame 0622. Omissions consist of Volumes 5-9. Omitted volumes include two composition books, 1866 and 1867-1871, documenting Dixon’s work as a student at Centenary College; an account book, 1870-1873, and a record book, 1872-1877, recording financial information; and a letter book, 1872-1873, recording correspondence received by Dixon.
0363 Introductory Materials. 12 frames.
0375 Papers, 1863-1899, 1905, and Undated. 19
frames.
0394 Volume 1, William Y. Dixon, Diary, 1860-1863. 90
frames.
0484 Volume 2, William Y. Dixon, Diary, 1863-1864. 17
frames.
0501 Volume 3, William Y. Dixon, Diary, 1867-1870. 61
frames.
0562 Volume 4, William Y. Dixon, Diary, 1870-1871. 60
frames.
0622 List of Omissions from William Y. Dixon Papers,
Mss. 343, 1860-1905. 1 frame.
Doke, Fielding Yeager Papers, Mss. 2215, 1849-1910 [Missouri, Arkansas, Georgia, and Louisiana]. Location: Reel 4A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Fielding Yeager Doke was a Confederate captain in Company F of the 9th Missouri Regiment, Trans-Mississippi Department. He served primarily in Louisiana and Arkansas and was assigned to a board for the inspection of beef for the Confederate army, 1864. Doke owned land in Kasse, Limestone County, Texas, and had a brother, Thomas, in Missouri.
This collection consists of fifty-four items, papers, 1849-1910 (bulk 1860-1868), of Fielding Yeager Doke. Items include letters from family concerning home life and the departure of Missouri youths to California, 1864; letters from fellow soldiers concerning the Atlanta campaign, skirmishes, and deaths of Missouri natives, 1864; and letters from friends, 1865, 1905, and 1910. Military papers include orders of Doke and other soldiers, receipts for damaged ordnance, and an inquiry concerning an absence without leave. Financial papers include a daily statement of gold received by Bill McKana and brother for prospecting, 1849; a statement of account with a merchant, 1868; a promissory note, 1877; and documents of land sales. Printed items include broadsides, some published by the Young Men’s Secession Association, 1860-1865; three items concerning a benefit performance for Louisiana soldiers, 1865; and scattered issues of The Countryman, a Turnwold,
Georgia, newspaper, September-December 1862.
0623 Introductory Materials. 10 frames.
0633 Folder 1, Papers, August 1849. 2 frames.
0635 Folder 2, Papers, 1860-1865. 17 frames.
0652 Folder 3, Papers, 1863-1865. 15 frames.
0667 Folder 4, The Countryman, Turnwold, Georgia,
September- December 1862. 72 frames.
0739 Folder 5, Papers, 1865-1910. 24 frames.
0763 Folder 6, Business Cards, Undated. 3 frames.
Duncan, Green C. Papers, 1850-1910 [Bardstown, Bloomfield, and Danville, Kentucky; also Ohio and Texas] Location: Reel 17 & 18; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
These papers relate to the career of Duncan (1841-1910), farmer, cattleman, and legislator, including his experience as a Confederate soldier and as a prisoner of war on Johnson’s Island, Ohio; his settlement in Texas; his service in the twenty-second Texas Legislature; and his farm in Wharton County. Included are correspondence, diaries, memorandum books, financial records, land records, newspaper clippings, the plantation records of John B. Walker, and the diary of William F. L. Alexander.
0640 Introductory materials. 6 frames.
0646 Account Book, 1871-1888. 51 frames.
0697 Account Book, 1879-1894. 103 frames.
0800 Account Book, 1894-1900. 82 frames.
0882 Account Book, 1898-1901. 77 frames.
0959 Correspondence, 1853-1865. 188 frames.
Reel 18
0003 Correspondence, 1866-1868. 166 frames.
0169 Correspondence, 1869-1870. 90 frames.
0259 Correspondence, 1871-1873. 111 frames.
0370 Correspondence, 1891 and 1907. 21 frames.
0391 Correspondence, Undated. 28 frames.
0419 Diaries, 1850-1851, 1865, and 1880. 83 frames.
0502 Land Papers, 1881, 1883, and Undated. 9 frames.
0511 Financial Papers, 1867-1901. 32 frames.
0543 Memorandum Books, 1877-1910. 54 frames.
0597 Duncan Family History, 1902. 26 frames.
0623 Duncan, Green Caudron, Diary, 1880. 35 frames.
0658 Alexander, William F. L. Diary, 1875-1878. 122
frames.
0780 Walker, John B., Plantation Book, 1861-1864. 37
frames.
0817 [Untitled Folder-Miscellaneous]. 6 frames.
Durnin, James and John Papers, Mss. 697, 1849-1881 [St. Helena Parish, Louisiana; also Mississippi]. Location: Reel 4A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
James and John Durnin lived in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, and served in the Confederate army in Louisiana and Mississippi.
This collection consists of twenty-four items and seven volumes, papers, 1849-1881, of James and John Durnin. Papers include correspondence, bills, accounts, clippings, sheet music, and miscellaneous items documenting the personal, financial, and military activities of the Durnin family. Correspondence includes Civil War letters by James Durnin describing mustering into the Confederate army at New Orleans, September 1861; Camp Chalmette and the Confederate fortifications, December 1861; and fighting from camp Woodville, Mississippi, between the towns of Clinton and Liberty, September 1864. A letter by John Durnin describes an army camp at Baton Rouge and the Federal troops’ efforts to find sugar in a wharf near Baton Rouge, September 1862. Papers also include an order for James Durnin to report to Capt. Holmes at Mobile, Alabama, and an oath to defend the Constitution signed by John Durnin.
A list of Omissions from James and John Durnin Papers, Mss. 697, 1849-1881, is provided on Reel 4, Frame 0825. Omissions consist of Seven volumes.
0766 Introductory Materials. 13 frames.
0779 Papers, 1849-1888. 46 frames.
0825 List of Omissions from James and John Durnin Papers, Mss. 697, 1849-1881. 1 frame.
Durning, M. W. Barber and C. S.; Diary, 1864 [Arkansas and Louisiana] Location: Reel 10; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
Daily account of camp life and troop movements kept by Union Corporal Barber (1843-1864) from January 1, 1864, through April 7, 1864. After Barber’s death at Sabine Cross Roads, Louisiana, the account is resumed by Confederate Private Durning, who kept it from April 9, 1864, through December 31, 1864.
0923 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0926 Omissions List. 1 frame.
0927 Diary. 72 frames.
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Edwards, Peyton Forbes Family Papers, 1847-1947 [El Paso, Nacogdoches, and Rusk Counties, Texas; also Louisiana] Location: Reel 18; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
These papers relate to the family and career of Edwards (1844-1918), soldier, attorney, judge, and politician. Included are family correspondence during his service in Company J of the 17th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War, legal papers dealing with his law practice in Nacogdoches, the constitution and by-laws of the Dialectic Society of Nacogdoches College, and the genealogical research of his daughter, Leila Edwards Akin. Materials include certificates, land grants, speeches, a plat map, photographs, postcards, a diary, tax receipts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, legal papers, notes, memoranda, and architectural sketches.
0823 Introductory Materials. 6 frames.
0829 Omissions List. 1 frame.
0830 Civil War Papers, Quartermaster and Ordnance in
the Confederate Army, 1861-1866. 47 frames.
Ellis, E. John and Thomas C. W. Family Papers, Mss. 136, 1829-1936. [Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana; also Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Ohio] Location: Reels 21A and 22A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Ezekiel John Ellis and Thomas Cargill Warner Ellis were sons of Ezekiel Parke Ellis, a judge and state legislator from Amite, Louisiana. E. John and Thomas C. W. were practicing attorneys who were active in Louisiana politics. During the Civil War, E. John Ellis served as captain in the St. Helena Rebels, Company F, 16th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army. He was captured at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, in 1863 and imprisoned at Johnson’s Island Prison, Sandusky Bay, Ohio. Thomas C. W. Ellis enlisted in the Confederate States Army in 1862 and served as a captain in the 18th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion. After the Civil War, Thomas was elected to the Louisiana State Senate and served until 1868. E. John Ellis entered into law practice in 1867 and in 1874 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. The following year, he and Thomas formed a law partnership with John McEnery, practicing in New Orleans. Thomas was appointed judge of the Civil District Court of New Orleans in 1888, and in 1898 Judge Ellis was elected to the chair of Admiralty and International Law at Tulane University in New Orleans.
This collection consists of papers, 1829-1936 (bulk 1870-1920), of E. John and Thomas C. W. Ellis and family. Papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and business papers of three generations of the Ezekiel Parke Ellis family of southeastern Louisiana. Politics occupy a large portion of the discussions in the correspondence of 1860-1861. Civil War correspondence, 1861-1865, of E. John Ellis includes letters written from various camps in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia, as well as those from Johnson’s Island Prison, Ohio. Letters of 1865-1866 concern family matters, travel, and Reconstruction politics.
A list of omissions from E. John and Thomas C. W. Ellis Family Papers, Mss. 136, 1829-1936, is provided on Reel 22, Frame 0190. Omissions consist of Folders 1-7, 1829-1859; Folders 15-end, 1867-1936; and Volumes 1-72.
0821 Introductory Materials. 10 frames.
0831 Folder 8, Papers, 1860. 42 frames.
0873 Folder 9, Papers, 1861. 42 frames.
0915 Folder 10, papers, 1862. 110 frames.
1025 Folder 11, Papers, 1863. 85 frames.
Reel 22
0001 Folder 12, Papers, 1863. 68 frames.
0069 Folder 13, 1863. 42 frames.
0110 Folder 14, Papers, 1863. 80 frames.
0190 List of Omissions from E. John and Thomas C. W.
Ellis Family Papers, Mss. 136, 1829-1936. 1 frame.
Ellis, E.P. and Family Papers, Mss. 663, 1812-1914 [West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana; also Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee]. Location: Reel 5A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Ezekiel Park Ellis (1807-1884) of Amite, Louisiana, was a judge and a member of the Louisiana legislature. He was married to Tabitha Emily Warner, daughter of Louisiana judge Thomas Cargill Warner. His sons, all lawyers, were Thomas C. W. Ellis, Ezekiel John Ellis, and Stephen Dudley Ellis. They attended Centenary College in Jackson, Louisiana, and served in the Confederate army.
This collection consists of 180 items and five printed volumes, papers, 1812-1914, of E.P. Ellis and family. The microfilmed portion of the collection consists of bound typewritten copies of letters, 1812 and 1831-1914. Letters of E. P. Ellis are addressed to his wife during travel to various courthouses in the Florida parishes of Louisiana. Letters of the 1850s are chiefly by E. John Ellis and Thomas C. W. Ellis and are addressed from Centenary College, Jackson, Louisiana, and the Law School of the University of Louisiana at New Orleans. The bulk of the correspondence consists of Civil War letters from E. John Ellis while he was captain of the 16th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, serving in Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Several letters were written from Johnson’s Island Prison, Sandusky, Ohio. A few letters from Stephen D. Ellis, also in the 16th Louisiana Infantry, are included. Postwar letters are mainly written by Thomas C. W. Ellis. Also included are typescripts of a few slave bills of sale, invitations, certificates, newspaper clippings, and memoranda concerning members of the Ellis family.
N.B. A related collection is E. John and Thomas C. W. Ellis Family Papers, Mss. 136, 1829-1936, included, in part, on Reels 21-22 of this edition.
0001 Introductory Materials. 16 frames.
0017 Bound Transcript of Letters, 1812 and 1831
1904. 144 frames.
0161 List of Omissions from E. P. Ellis and Family
Papers, Mss. 663, 1812-1914. 1 frame. [No Frames 0162-0235.]
Ellis, Volney Letters, 1860-1864 [Halletsville, Texas; also Arkansas and Louisiana] Location: Reel 25; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection contains letters by Ellis to his wife, Mary, concerning the maintenance of the Ellis household and his business as an attorney in Halletsville, Texas, with the bulk of the material relating to experiences in Louisiana and Arkansas during the Civil War.
0563 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0567 [Untitled Folder-Correspondence, 1860-1864].
127 frames.
Ellis, William H. Papers, Mss. 2274, 1839-1900 [New Orleans, Louisiana; also Virginia and Georgia]. Location: Reel 5A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
William H. Ellis (1839-1892), a postal worker of New Orleans, Louisiana, was a soldier in the New Orleans Washington Artillery unit of the Confederate States Army of Northern Virginia and was active in Confederate veterans affairs after the war. He conducted business in New Orleans and had interests in the cotton market in the 1880s.
This collection consists of 191 items and eight volumes, papers, 1839-1900, of William H. Ellis and family. Letters; financial, personal, and political papers; and military documents reflect Ellis’s activities in business in New Orleans and as a soldier in the Washington Artillery. Financial papers include slave bills of sale; bank drafts and notes; documents of land ownership, including the sale of land in St. Helena Parish; promissory notes; and receipts for court costs, furnishings, interest payments, wages, and statements of account. Military items include orders, passes, prisoner parole forms, and receipts of pay and clothing, 1864-1865. Political papers include speeches, 1856, and 1857, an amnesty oath, 1865, and a voter’s registration certificate, 1876. Three diaries, 1860-1865, include entries describing office work and social life in New Orleans, 1860; Camp Victory and Camp Hollins near the battleground of Bull Run, January 1862; the camp mess and cooking in camps, 1862; the Battle of Chickahominy, near Richmond, Virginia, 1862; Ellis’s capture and parole at Athens, Georgia, May-August 1862, and the death of Abraham Lincoln. The diaries contain some addresses and cash entries recording pay and expenses. A memorandum book, 1863-1864, contains poems and entries concerning military duties.
A list of omissions from William H. Ellis Papers, Mss. 2274, 1839-1900, is provided on Reel 5, Frame 0581. Omissions consist of Folder 10, Printed Items, 1886 and Undated, including three pamphlets concerning religious matters in New Orleans.
0236 Introductory materials. 18 frames.
0254 Folder 1, Papers, 1839-1849. 7 frames.
0261 Folder 2, Bank Drafts and Notes, 1847-1866. 25
frames.
0286 Folder 3, papers, 1850-1861. 60 frames.
0346 Folder 4, Papers, 1862-1865. 15 frames.
0361 Folder 5, Papers, 1866-1891. 36 frames.
0397 Folder 6, Papers, Undated. 6 frames.
0401 Folder 7, Poems, Undated. 6 frames.
0407 Folder 8, Cards, 1885 and Undated. 2 frames.
0409 Folder 9, Newspaper Clippings, 1860-1890. 8
frames.
0417 Folder 11, United Confederate Veterans Badges,
1890 and Undated. 2 frames.
0419 Folder 12, Hood Relief Committee Picture, 1879.
3 frames.
0422 Folder 13, E. F. Keplinger Photograph, 1890. 3
frames.
0425 Folder 14, William H. Ellis Photographs, Undated.
2 frames.
0427 Folder 15, Confederate Photographs, Undated. 2
frames.
0429 Folder 16, C. Taney Keplinger Photograph,
Undated. 2 frames.
0431 Folder 17, Unidentified Photograph, Undated 2
frames.
0433 Folder 18, Album of Richmond Views, 1890. 8
frames.
0441 Volume 1, Diary, 1860 and 1864-1865. 66 frames.
0507 Volume 2, Diary, 1862 and 1865. 34 frames.
0541 Volume 3, Diary, 1863 and 1865. 17 frames.
0558 Volume 4, Memorandum Book, 1863-1864. 15
frames.
0573 Volume 5, New Testament, 1860-1863. 8 frames.
0581 List of Omissions from William H. Ellis Papers,
Mss 2274, 1839-1900. 1 frame.
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Farrow, Sam W. Paper, 1862-1865 [Marion and Panola Counties, Texas; also Arkansas and Louisiana] Location: Reel 18; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of Farrow’s correspondence during the Civil War.
0877 Introductory Material. 3 frames.
0880 Correspondence, November 7, 1852—February 4,
1865, and Undated. 196 frames.
1076 [Untitled Folder-Miscellaneous Correspondence].
11 frames.
1087 Receipts, November 19, 1860. 2 frames.
Faulkner, Lee and Faulkner, Johnaphene S. (Wilson) Papers, 1858-1866 [Columbus, Galveston, Prairie Home, and Ratcliff Place, Texas; also Arkansas and Mississippi] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of correspondence and reminiscences of Lee and Johnaphene Faulkner.
0001 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0005 Omissions List. 1 frame.
0006 Correspondence, September 25, 1859-April 9,
1865. 120 frames.
0126 Reminiscences: “Things Worth Remembering
from the Distant Past for the Sake of My Precious Daughter, Nellie” [Photostat[. 16 frames.
Fayette, Colorado, Wharton, and Matagorda Counties, Texas Military Records, 1861-1862: Location: Reel 25; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection records the names of officers, number of men in companies and their origin, inventory of arms, and remarks concerning the Twenty-second Brigade, Texas State Troops, under Brigadier General William Graham Webb, in the early years of the Civil War. Also included are directives from headquarters printed separately and clipped from newspapers.
0694 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0698 Fayette and Colorado Counties Military Records,
1861-1862. 62 frames.
Feris, George Achille Papers, 1841-1878 [Fort Bend County, Texas; also Louisiana and Tennessee] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection includes correspondence and legal documents relating to Feris. Also includes material on the Battle of Woodsonville (December 17, 1861).
0142 Introductory Materials. 6 frames.
0148 March 1, 1863-June 4, 1874, and Undated. 13
frames.
0161 Map-Battle of Woodsonville, December 17, 1861.
2 frames.
0163 Probate Court Record, May 24, 1841. 6 frames.
0169 [Untitled Folder-District Court judgment, January
14, 1861]. 3 frames.
Flags captured or recaptured by Union Troops, Register of 1861-1865, 1 roll 1mm National Archives RG 94. M1836 Location: Microfilm Cabinet 3, Drawer 2.
Oh the one roll of this publication, M1836, is reproduced the register of Confederate flags captured by Union troops and Federal flags recaptured by union troops during the Civil War. This volume is part of the Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94.
During the Civil War, flags captured from Confederate forces were presented to the War Department by Generals commanding in the field. There are many letters among the records of the Adjutant General’s Office (AGO) forwarding such flags to the War Department. In some cases, the captors of these flags were ordered to Washington where the individual received a short furlough and the Medal of Honor. The flags, approximately 750 in number, were stored in a vacant room of a building occupied by part of the clerical force of the AGO.
At the end of the war, the flags were moved to rooms occupied by the superintendent of the War Department buildings. Under the direction of Bvt. Lt. Col. Theodore A. Dodge, a list was prepared showing as much of the history of their capture as could be discerned from the information at hand. A copy of that list, with subsequent annotations, is the volume reproduced on this microfilm roll. The original list ahs not been located. In his report, Colonel Dodge remarked that “it is to be regretted that the history of a least two out of every three of these flags is very imperfect, in many cases, ‘Rebel Flag’ being the only inscription, and only a few can be identified” (H 928 AGO 1867).
Late in 1874, apparently upon the verbal orders of the Secretary of War, a number of the Confederate flags were placed on display at the Ordnance Museum. Early in 1875, additional flags were sent to the Ordnance Museum. In 1882, all the flags in the possession of the War Department, including those on display at the Ordnance Museum, were boxed and stored in the basement of the new State, War and Navy Department Building. Later, in 1887, due to problems associated with locating the flags and concerns over their decay, the flags were unboxed and stored in the attic of the new War Department Building.
Of the total number of flags, 22 Confederate flags were either returned to the regiments that captured them or were loaned to the regiments and never returned. Twenty Union flags were returned to the states from whose troops the flags had been captured.
Numerous requests were received by the War Department for the return of flags. In most cases, the requests were denied on the basis that the flags were the property of the Federal Government. It appears from the records that the Department often declined to return the flags to avoid stirring sectional feelings, while, in some cases, Congress passed joint resolutions calling for their return. In other cases, flags were returned by order of the Secretary of War. In 1887 President Grover Cleveland instructed the Secretary of War to return those flags that could be identified. His decision met with protests from veterans and others, and he later rescinded his instructions, giving a reason that upon further review, he could not find any basis in law for their return, and that final disposition should be left to Congress.
Over the next 20 years, attempts to resolve the issue were unsuccessful. Then in a joint resolution dated February 28, 1905 (33 Stat 1284), Congress authorized the Secretary of War to deliver the captured flags to proper authorities of the states from which the regiments were organized “for such final disposition as the aforesaid proper authorities may determine.” According to the War Department Annual Report for 1905, at the time of the act, the department held 726 flags; 215 were Union flags captured by the Confederates and subsequently recaptured and 511 were Confederate flags captured by Union troops.
Under provisions of the resolution, 274 of the flags were returned to the states. A description of those flags can be found in Executive Document Number 163, House of Representatives, 50th Congress, 1st session. Unfortunately, the remaining 164 Union and 288 Confederate flags could not be identified and hence were not returned. The Military Secretary, Brig. Gen. Fred C. Ainsworth, recommended that the Secretary of War, by order, deposit the Union flags at the United States Military Academy. This was done in February 1906. Ainsworth further recommended that the unidentified Confederate flags be donated to a Confederate memorial or historical association but that such action would require approval by Congress. A joint resolution of Congress, approved June 29, 1906, (34 Stat 837) authorized the War Department to deliver the remaining flags to the Confederate Memorial Literary Society of Richmond, Virginia. Today, the flags reside in the Museum of the Confederacy at Richmond.
Foster, James and Family Correspondence, Mss. 2184, 1861-1866 continued. Location: Reel 5A and 6A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Isaac Gaillard Foster and John Sanderson Foster were sons of James Foster, a medical doctor of Natchez, Mississippi. The family resided at Hermitage Plantation near Natchez. Both sons served in the Confederate army. John S. Foster died of wounds received during the Gettysburg campaign, 1863. Isaac G. Foster served in Company B of the 10th Mississippi Regiment and died in 1864.
This collection consists of 110 items and one volume, papers, 1861-1866, of James Foster and family. John Sanderson Foster’s letters from New Orleans, 1861, relate his views on the secession of Louisiana and describe his life as a law student in New Orleans. Letters from his army training camp near Memphis, Tennessee, describe his captain, William T. Martin, and his unit, called the Adams Troop. Letters from various camps in Virginia describe camp life; a railroad wreck of cars bound for Richmond; a hospital in Ashland; the efficiency, membership, and size of the Adams Troop; picket duty; the activities of couriers; Confederate currency; and medical attention offered by women in Richmond to Confederate soldiers. Battles and skirmishes mentioned in John S. Foster’s letters include the First Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Williamsburg, the Seven Days Battles of Mechanicsville (Ellison’s Mills), First Cold Harbor, the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Antietam campaign, fighting at Fredericksburg, Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the Gettysburg campaign. The formation of the Jefferson Davis Legion from the Adams Troop and other companies from Mississippi and Alabama and the activities of the Washington Artillery are noted. Letters of Isaac Gaillard Foster describe his company’s retreat from Corinth during the Shiloh campaign; conditions during the Chattanooga campaign and at Camp Cleburne, Georgia, 1863; the arrest of women at Natchez for carrying on contraband trade, 1864; and fighting in the Atlanta campaign. Confederate officers described include Patrick Cleburne, Leonidas Polk, and Joseph E. Johnston. Miscellaneous papers include letters and items relating to the burials of John S. and Isaac G. Foster, lists of things made for soldiers, a military pass issued to James Foster, an oath of allegiance taken by Kate Foster to the Confederate States, 1865, photographs of members of the Foster family, and a narrative description of John S. and Isaac G. Foster. A diary kept by Isaac G. Foster, May-August 1864, records his experiences during the Atlanta campaign, detailing troop movements, duties, casualties, and skirmishes near Atlanta. Comments on Confederate military leadership and on the death of John S. Foster are included.
0582 Introductory Materials. 20 frames.
0602 Folder 1, Papers, 1861. 95 frames.
0697 Folder 2, Papers, 1862. 67 frames.
0764 Folder 3, Papers, 1863. 64 frames.
0828 Folder 4, Papers, 1864. 80 frames.
Fourth Louisiana Regiment Muster Rolls, Confederate States Army Collection, Mss. 0023, 1861 [Camp Moore, Louisiana; also Mississippi]. Location: Reel 21A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
The 4th Louisiana Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army was commanded by Robert J. Barrow until 1862. During this period, the commanders of the companies were Capt. Edward J. Pullen, Company K; Capt. James H. Wingfield, Company G; Capt. Charles E. Torraen, Company E; Capt. John T. Hilliard, Company I; Capt. Henry A. Rauhman, Company A; Capt. Franc Whicher, Company B; Capt. F.A. Williams, Company D; Capt. Thomas E. Vick, Company A; Capt. H. M. Favrot, Company C; and Capt. John B. Taylor, Company J. The regiment was formed at Camp Moore, Louisiana, in May 1861 and served on the Mississippi Gulf Coast until 1862, when it was ordered to Jackson, Tennessee, to reinforce Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard’s army. The regiment fought in the battles of Shiloh, Tennessee, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1862 and New Hope Church, Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church, and Jonesboro, Georgia, in 1864. In 1864, they were consolidated with the 30th Louisiana Infantry Regiment for the invasion of Tennessee and later with the 13th and 30th Louisiana Regiments and the 14th Louisiana Battalion Sharpshooters. They surrendered at Meridian, Mississippi, in May 1865.
This collection consists of eleven items, muster rolls, 1861, of the 4th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. The muster rolls document payrolls of various companies in the command for the pay period of August-October 1861. An additional muster roll for Capt. E. J. Pullen’s company reflects the pay period of October-December 1861.
0295 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
0300 Muster Rolls, 1861. 89 frames.
Franklin, J.C. Letters, Mss. 2121, 1864 [Lynchburg and Richmond, Virginia]. Location: Reel 22A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of two items, letters, 1864, of J. C. Franklin. The letters were written from Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, and Pratt Hospital, Lynchburg, Virginia, to Franklin’s wife, S.W. “Sookey” Franklin, describing conditions in the hospitals.
0349 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0352 Letters, 1864. 7 frames.
Frazier Family Papers, 1839-1915 [Bell, Burleson, Ellis, Harris, Hill, and Red River Counties, Texas; also Arkansas, California, and Louisiana] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of the papers of the family of Robert T. Frazier. Materials include correspondence, receipts, a Hillsboro Cemetery Association membership list, legal documents, certificates of election, Confederate veteran material, poetry, and newspaper clippings.
0172 Introductory Materials. 6 frames.
0178 Correspondence, September 2, 1852-May 18,
1915, and Undated. 112 frames.
0290 Receipts, July 27, 1838-January 5, 1909, and
Undated. 34 frames.
0324 [Untitled Folder- Financial Papers and Hillsboro
Cemetery Association Membership List]. 5 frames.
0329 Legal Documents, October 2, 1853-June 22, 1871.
9 frames.
0338 [Untitled Folder- Certificates of Election]. 5
frames.
0343 By-Laws, Rules of Order, List of Officers, of Albert
Sidney Johnston Camp No. 4, Confederate Veterans of California, January 1886. 13 frames.
0356 Printed Material, 1887 and Undated. 3 frames.
0359 Poetry, Undated. 3 frames.
0362 Newspaper Clippings. 2 frames.
Freeman, George R. Papers, 1865 [Austin and Coleman, Texas; also Kentucky] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection contains correspondence by Freeman and materials relating to the attack on the Texas State Treasury in 1865.
0364 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
0369 [Untitled Folder-Petition Requesting the Creation
of a Volunteer Company to Protect the Texas State Treasury, June 12, 1865]. 6 frames.
0375 Depositions. 12 frames.
0387 [Untitled Folder-Correspondence, Undated]. 11
frames.
0398 Newspaper Clipping. 1 frame.
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Gale and Polk Family Papers, 1815-1940, Jefferson and Yazoo Counties, Mississippi; also North Carolina, Tennessee, and Louisiana; Location: Reel 2 & 3; Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Description of the Collection
This collection includes family and military papers, chiefly 1815 through 1881. Antebellum papers concern family affairs, agriculture, politics, and epidemics, and a description of Mount Vernon, Virginia; numerous Civil War letters written by William Dudley Gale while serving as general staff officer under generals Leonidas Polk and Alexander P. Stewart (1821-1908), with descriptions of the Battle of Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign of 1864, and the battles of Franklin and Nashville, and his opinions concerning Jefferson Davis, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876), William Joseph Hardee (1815-1873), John Bell Hood (1831-1879), and Joseph E. Johnston (1807-1891); scattered Civil War correspondence between Leonidas Polk and his wife; recollections (1895) of Katherine (Polk) Gale, of her life during the Civil War in Nashville, Tennessee, and Yazoo County, Mississippi, and Asheville, North Carolina; and diaries (1873-1874) of Frances (Devereux) Polk, recording her activities in the Gale household near Nashville. There are scattered letters written by Thomas Gale, Anne (Green) Gale (antebellum only), William Dudley Gale, Leonidas Polk, Frances (Devereux) Polk, and others before and during the Civil War. The recollections written by Katherine (Polk) Gale contain much information about the Polk and Gale families and the disruptive effects of the Civil War on life in Mississippi and North Carolina. The diaries of Frances (Devereux) Polk consist of only brief daily entries and memoranda chiefly regarding personal and family matters.
While a staff officer in the Confederate army, William Dudley Gale wrote a large number of letters to his wife. He discussed the operations of Polk’s Corps (also known as the “Army of Mississippi”) of the Army of Tennessee from late 1862 until the death of Leonidas Polk in June 1864, after which he described activities of Stewart’s Corps of the Army of Tennessee. There is a sketch map of the Nashville battleground and also typed transcriptions of two long letters written in January 1865.
The collection is arranged as follows: Series 1, Correspondence and Other Loose Papers, and Series 2, Diary and Recollections.
Biographical Note
Thomas Gale (fl. 1815-1881), a physician who served with Indian-fighting soldiers in Alabama Territory in 1815 and afterwards became a planter in Jefferson and Yazoo counties, Mississippi, and later in Davidson County, Tennessee, married Ann M. Greene (fl. 1820-1845). William Dudley Gale (fl. 1844-1881), their son, married Katherine (“Kate”) Polk (fl. 1858-1895) in 1858, after his first wife died. He joined the Confederate army as a staff officer for his father-in-law, General Leonidas Polk, in the fall of 1862. After the general’s death near Pine Mountain, Georgia, in June 1864, Gale was assigned to the staff of General Alexander P. Stewart. The family resided near Nashville, Tennessee, after the Civil War. Thomas and Ann (Greene) Gale has at least two other sons: Abner G. Gale and Josiah R. Gale. Other Gales mentioned in these papers include James G., John, Josiah, and Robert; also John Hutchins, an uncle of Thomas Gale. Greene family members mentioned in the papers include Ann (Greene) Gale’s mother, Mary Greene, and brother, William H. Greene.
Leonidas Polk (1806-1864), son of William Polk (1758-1844) and Sarah (Hawkins) Polk (fl. 1828-1855), was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended the University of North Carolina from 1821 to 1823, when he transferred to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. He graduated in 1827 but, having converted to the Episcopal Church, resigned his commission from the U.S. Army. He became an ordained deacon, and in 1830, married Frances Ann (“Fanny”) Devereux (1807-1875) of Raleigh, North Carolina. She was the daughter of John Devereux (1761-1844) and Frances (Pollock) Devereux (1771-1849). Other relatives mentioned in the collection include Leonidas Polk’s nephew, Lucius Eugene Polk (1833-1892), and Leonidas Polk’s sister, Susan S. (Polk) Rayner.
After traveling and living with Frances in various places from Virginia to Louisiana, Leonidas Polk was made bishop of Louisiana in 1841. He became a sugar planter, utilizing a large number of slaves inherited by his wife from the Devereux family of North Carolina. He also helped found the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1857. In 1861, he was appointed major general in the Confederate army; and in 1862, promoted to lieutenant general. He served in independent command under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston, Braxton Bragg, and Joseph E. Johnston. He was killed during the Atlanta campaign on June 14, 1864. Frances (Devereux) Polk rented a house in Asheville, North Carolina, during the latter half of the Civil War, and afterwards lived, much of the time, with her daughter Katherine (Polk) Gale and son-in-law William Dudley Gale, near Nashville, Tennessee, until her death in 1875.
0177 Introductory Materials. 19 frames.
Series 1
0196 Description of Series 1. 3 frames.
0199 Folder 1, 1815-1819. 25 frames.
0224 Folder 2, 1820-1839. 34 frames.
0258 Folder 3, 1844-1859. 90 frames.
0348 Folder 4, 1861-1863. 96 frames.
0444 Folder 5, 1864. 78 frames.
0522 Folder 6, 1865. 53 frames.
0575 Folder 7, 1871-1885, 1935, and 1940. 44 frames.
0619 Folder 8, Undated. 12 frames.
Series 2
0631 Description of Series 2. 2 frames.
0633 Folder 9, Volume 1, Frances Devereux Polk, Diary,
1873. 221 frames.
0854 Folder 10, Volume 2, Frances Devereux Polk,
Diary, 1874. 215 frames.
Reel 3
0001 Folder 11, Volume 3, Katherine Polk Gale,
Recollections, 1895. 91 frames.
0092 Folder 12, Typed Transcription of Volume 3. 85
frames.
Gibson and Humphreys Family Papers, 1846-1919, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana; also Kentucky, Montana, and Washington, D.C.; Location; Reel 3 & 4; Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Description of the Collection
The Gibson and Humphreys families were residents of Live Oak and/or Oak Forest Plantation near Tigerville in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, and Sumner’s Forest Plantation near Versailles, Kentucky. Prominent family members include Tobias Gibson (d. ca. 1870), plantation owner in Louisiana; his son Randall Gibson (1832-1892), lawyer and U.S. representative and senator from 1875 through 1892; his daughter Sarah Gibson Humphreys (fl. 1846-1885), fiction writer; and her son Joseph A. Humphreys, Jr. (fl. 1870-1898).
This collection includes correspondence, a few financial items, and miscellaneous items. The correspondence documents the period before the Civil War when the Gibson children were in school at the Phillips Academy, Yale, and traveling in Europe. One of the sons wrote about opposing views of North and South on slavery. After the Civil War, the correspondence chiefly documents the lives of the Humphreys family and their efforts to improve their financial situation. Among other things, it documents Sarah Humphrey’s writing efforts and her support of women’s causes, particularly suffrage; Joseph A. Humphreys, Jr.’s efforts to run a sheep ranch near Miles City, Montana; and the experiences of two women (cousins?) who obtained jobs working at the Post Office and the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. Letters from family and friends describing their activities are also included, as are a number of letters written by Randall Gibson on family and business affairs. Randall Lee Gibson’s professional life is not documented, but there are numerous letters written by him on family and business affairs.
The collection is arranged as follows: Series 1, 1846-1849; Series 2, 1850-1860; Series 3, 1861-1865; Series 4, 1867-1872; Series 5, 1873-1879; Series 6, 1880-1885; Series 7, 1886-1919; and Series 8, Undated.
Biographical Note
The chief figures in these papers are Tobias Gibson of Live Oak and/or Oak Forest Plantation near Tigerville, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana; and his family, especially his daughter, Sarah, who married Joseph A. Humphreys of Kentucky; and her son, Joseph Humphreys.
Tobias Gibson and his wife, whose maiden name is not given, probably moved to Louisiana from Kentucky, and maintained close relations with relatives and friends there. He was a planter and owned plantations named Live Oak and Oak Forest (possibly the same place), and another plantation referred to as Holly Wood. Their children, in approximate order of their age, are listed below:
Preston, who studied medicine and was a planter, had a wife named Elodie and a son named Preston. There is not much in the papers about Preston Gibson, who died sometime between 7 April 1864, and 13 February 1867, and there are only brief references to his wife and son thereafter.
Randall Lee, the best known member of the family, served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He was born in 1832, graduated from Yale College in 1853, and studied law at the University of Louisiana (late Tulane). He became a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and after the war practiced law in New Orleans. He served as a representative, 1875-1883, and as a senator from 1883 until his death in 1892. He married Mary Montgomery of Kentucky, and had a son Montgomery and a daughter named Leila and perhaps other daughters. There are many letters from him in the collection, chiefly on family and business affairs, not politics. His family frequently refers to him as “Lee.”
Sarah Thompson Gibson married Joseph A. Humphreys of Summer’s Forest near Versailles, Kentucky, probably in 1853. She wrote fiction and evidently had a few short stories published. The papers indicate that she also wrote a book, but she apparently did not find a publisher. She had three children, Lucy, Sarah Gibson (Sallie), and Joseph A., Jr. Her husband was in ill health, and although he probably did not serve in the Confederate army, he died sometime in the war years. Lucy married Lewis A. Johnstone; Sallie evidently never married (although Dr. Hamilton recalled that the donor of the papers was introduced to him as Mrs. S. G. Humphreys and was an elderly woman in 1944, it seems impossible that she could have been Mrs. Joseph A. Humphreys, Sr., and possible that she was actually Miss Sallie G. Humphreys). Sometime between 1888 and 1898, Joseph, Jr. married, but the only mane given for his wife is Mary. They had a son named Joseph.
Claude was a student at Andover, Yale, and in Europe. He may have been killed during the Civil War.
Tobias studied at Andover, Yale, the University of North Carolina in 1857, and in Europe. He served in the Confederate army, studied law, and later lived in Louisiana and in Kentucky. His wife was named Eva. He is usually called Tobe or Toby in the correspondence.
Hart studied at Yale and became a planter at Hartland in Kentucky before the Civil War. He married Mary Duncan of Lexington, Kentucky, and had a son named Duncan.
John McKinley was called McKinley, Kin, or Kinny. He studied at Andover and in Europe, served in the Confederate army, lived in Kentucky after the war, was usually in ill health, and died in 1880.
Louisiana H., called Loulie, the youngest of the children, was sent to school in Paris during the Civil War. She married sometime in the mid-1870s (husband not named in the papers) and died in childbirth in 1877.
Less is known about the family of Joseph A. Humphreys. Joseph was the son of D. C. Humphreys, whose chief plantation seems to have been Waverly, in Woodford County, Kentucky. He had a brother named Samuel, and possibly sisters named Mary, Lucy, and Sue. D. C. Humphreys apparently died long before his wife, who continued to live at Waverly most of the time. The Humphreys children were frequently with her and refer to “Grandma” and “Aunt Mary.” In later years Grandma traveled quite a bit in the north and visited relatives in New York, frequently accompanied by one of the Humphreys girls.
There are many letters from and references to relatives in Kentucky, where both the Humphreys and the Gibsons seem to have had widespread connections. Aunt Anne was Tobias Gibson’s sister, but whether she was married and, if so, to whom, is not clear. Susan was a cousin of the Gibson family, married a Grigsby, and was a widow with several children, including Virginia and Hart, when she corresponded with Sarah Gibson Humphreys. Many other relatives cannot be identified at all.
0177 Introductory Materials. 17 frames.
Series 1
0194 Description of Series 1. 1 frame
0195 Folder 1, 1846-1849. 45 frames.
Series 2
0240 Description of Series 2. 1 frame
0241 Folder 2, 1850-1853. 58 frames.
0299 Folder 3, 1854-1855. 59 frames.
0358 Folder 4, 1856-1860. 60 frames.
Series 3
0418 Description of Series 3. 1 frame
0419 Folder 5, 1861-1865. 32 frames.
Series 4
0451 Description of Series 4. 1 frame
0452 Folder 6, 1867-1872. 36 frames.
Series 5
0488 Description of Series 5. 1 frame.
0488 Folder 7, 1873-1874. 51 frames.
0539 Folder 8, 1875-1876. 50 frames.
0589 Folder 9, 1877-1878. 33 frames.
0622 Folder 10, 1879. 79 frames.
Series 6
0701 Description of Series 6. 2 frames.
0702 Folder 11, 1880. 53 frames.
0755 Folder 12, 1881. 100 frames.
0855 Folder 13, 1882. 62 frames.
0917 Folder 14, January-June 1883. 77 frames.
Reel 4
0001 Folder 15, July-December 1883. 59 frames.
0060 Folder 16, 1884. 72 frames.
0132 Folder 17, January-October 1885. 33 frames.
0165 Folder 18, November-December 1885. 30 frames.
Series 7
0195 Description of Series 7. 1 frame
0196 Folder 19, 1886-1887. 31 frames.
0227 Folder 20, 1888-1919. 36 frames.
Series 8: Undated
0263 Description of Series 8. 1 frame.
0264 Folder 21, Fragments. 26 frames.
0290 Folder 22, Fragments. 28 frames.
0318 Folder 23, Undated. 48 frames.
0366 Folder 24, Undated. 56 frames.
Gibson, Randall Lee Papers, Mss. 2402, 2412, 2423, 1848-1891 [New Orleans and Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana; also Alabama]. Location: Reel 6, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Randall Lee Gibson (1832-1892), Confederate States Army brigadier general and New Orleans, Louisiana, lawyer, was a U.S. representative and senator from Louisiana.
This collection consists of 164 items, papers, 1848-1891, of Randall Lee Gibson. Civil War material consists of Gibson’s orders, general reports, and casualty reports during the tour of duty at Spanish Fort, Mobile, Alabama, 1865. Letters discuss movements of Gibson’s troops at the Battle of Shiloh, August 1863, and near Spanish Fort, on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, April 1865. Handwritten copies of special orders, 1861, for the 13th Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers are included along with a copy of a letter, 1861, from Gibson’s sister, Eleanora, from New Orleans, which discusses fund-raising for the Confederate army and a fire in the city.
A list of omissions from Randall Lee Gibson Papers, Mss. 2402, 2412, 2423, 1848-1891, is provided on Reel 6, Frame 0276. Omissions consist of papers, 1867-1891, including mortgages and leases for Magnolia, Oak Forest, and Greenwood plantations of Terrebonne Parish and for properties in New Orleans; receipts for taxes; insurance policies; and correspondence.
0114 Introductory Materials. 11 frames.
0125 Folder 1, Papers, 1848-1855 and 1860. 42
frames.
0167 Folder 2, Papers, 1861-1869. 25 frames.
0192 Folder 3, Memoranda, 1865. 14 frames.
0206 Folder 4, General Orders, March-April 1865. 7
frames.
0213 Folder 5, Morning Reports, March-April 1865. 27
frames.
0240 Folder 6, Reports of Casualties, March-April 1865.
22 frames.
0262 Folder 9, Photograph, Undated, ca. 1861-1865. 3
frames.
0265 Folder 10, Copies of Special Orders, 1861, and
Letter from Eleanora, 20 December 1861. 11 frames.
0276 List of Omissions from Randall Lee Gibson
Papers, Mss. 2401, 2412, 2423, 1848-1891. 1 frame.
Giles, G. W. Letters, Mss. 2133, 1862-1863 [Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi; also Alabama]. Location: Reel 3A & 6A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of twenty-three items, letters, September 1862-August 1863, of G. W. Giles to his wife. Letters comment upon routine matters pertaining to Company E, 35th Regiment of Alabama Volunteers near Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi; Federal prisoners from Fort Donelson, Tennessee; guarding prisoners of war; U.S. Army deserters near Jackson, Mississippi; prospects for peace; troop movements; life in army camps; wages; and personal matters.
0066 Introductory Materials. 6 frames.
0072 Letters, September 1862-August 1863. 30
frames.
Greene Jr., Raney Papers, 1862-1865 [Texas and Louisiana] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection contains materials pertaining to Greene’s service in Company F of the Crescent Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers in the Confederate Army. Includes correspondence, military orders, receipts, an orderly book, muster rolls, a diary, and a poem.
0399 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
0404 Correspondence, August 14, 1862. 3 frames.
0407 Military Orders, July 19, 1863- February 5, 1864.
5 frames.
0412 Military Receipts, April 1 and August 20, 1863. 1
frame.
0413 Orderly’s Book, 1862. 27 frames.
0440 [Untitled Folder-Muster Rolls, November 1, 1862
April 30, 1863]. 47 frames.
0487 Diary, October 16, 1862-January 1, 1865. 62
frames.
0549 Poem, “Dedicated to the Crescents,” Undated. 4
frames.
Guion, Lewis Diary, Mss. 826, 1862-1863 [New Orleans, Louisiana; also Mississippi]. Location: Reel 6A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Lewis Guion (1838-1920), the son of a sugar planter, was a jurist of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. On 12 March 1862, Guion enlisted as an officer in Company H of the 26th Louisiana Infantry Regiment under the leadership of Col. Duncan S. Cage.
This collection consists of one item, the diary, 24 April 1862-8 August 1863, of Lewis Guion. The diary describes Guion’s departure from New Orleans, 24 April 1862, his company’s march from Camp Moore to Donaldsonville, Baton Rouge, and Greensburg, 4 May 1862, and military activities around Chickasaw Bayou and Yazoo Lake, 24-29 December 1862. Entries after 18 May 1863 give a daily account of the siege of Vicksburg and events following the siege. Entries describe routine activities, the receipt of Northern and Southern newspapers by the besieged, the arrival of couriers from Johnston’s army, camp food, and daily rations. The diary lists names and gives total numbers of daily casualties during the siege, recording information about individuals killed.
0345 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
0350 Diary, 1862-1863. 74 frames.
Gurley, John W. Papers, Mss. 507, 1858-1866 [New Orleans and Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana]. Location: Reel 6A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
John W. Gurley, an attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana, was associated with Edward G. Stewart, a planter of Oak Lawn Plantation, Tangipahoa Parish.
This collection consists of eighty-one items, papers, 1858-1866, of John W. Gurley. The majority of the letters in the collection are from Edward G. Stewart. Letters discuss crop conditions, routine planting, weather, prices of slaves, the purchase of farm animals and equipment, the construction of Gurley’s home, the cutting of lumber, the charcoal industry, the arrival of Confederate refugees in New Orleans, 1862, and the wages of white and African American freedmen laborers. One letter mentions a white laborer being paid fifty cents per day by an African American tenant farmer. A letter from W. H. Pearce, Livingston Parish, Louisiana, discusses secession and political conditions in the nation, December 1860. Eight letters from an African American tenant farmer, Charles Daggs, comment on the manufacture and marketing of charcoal, farming matters, rations, clothing, commodities needed, sales of timber, livestock, crops, and freedmen’s wages of twenty-five dollars monthly as established by the U.S. provost marshal, 1865-1866. Papers of the Civil War period include a certificate that claims that Gurley and his wife were enemies of the United States, 1862; an order from the provost marshal for Gurley to leave Orleans Parish, 1863; the Gurleys’ oaths of allegiance to the United States and letters confirming their loyalty, 1864-1865; and an authorization for Gurley to practice law in New Orleans, 1865.
0424 Introductory Materials. 17 frames.
0441 Folder 1, Papers, 1858-1859. 46 frames.
0487 Folder 2, Papers, 1860. 35 frames.
0522 Folder 3, Papers, 1861-1866. 60 frames.
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Hagan, James and Family Papers, Mss. 1485, 1833-1901 [Mobile, Alabama; also Texas]. Location: Reel 6A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
James H. Hagan (1821-1901), a native or Ireland, came to America as an infant with his parents. He grew up in Pennsylvania, where his father was a farmer. At the outset of the war with Mexico, Hagan joined the Texas Rangers and participated in the storming of Monterey. He received a commission as captain in the Third Dragoons and was mustered out of service at the close of the conflict. At that time, Hagan turned his attentions to planting in Alabama. In 1861, he was commissioned captain with a company from Mobile County and shortly after was commissioned major of a regiment. Following the battle at Shiloh, Hagan was made colonel of the newly created Third Alabama Cavalry. For the last two years of the Civil War, he was a brigade commander under Gen. Wheeler. Hagan was promoted to the rank of brigadier general just before the close of the war.
This collection consists of sixty-three items, family papers, 1833-1901, of James Hagan. Papers relate to Hagan’s military career and his death. Items include Hagan’s commission as captain, issued by U.S. President James K. Polk; a slave bill of sale; an invitation to the reunion of the survivors of the Alabama Cavalry. Third Regiment; Confederate currency issued as payment for service in the Army of the Confederate States; and a request for James Hagan to be appointment for military service in the Spanish-American War.
A list of omissions from James Hagan Family Papers, Mss. 1485, 1833-1901, is provided on Reel 6, Frame 0618. Omitted Materials consist of Folder 1, John Hagan Correspondence, 1833-1848.
0582 Introductory Materials. 6 frames.
0588 Folder 2, Papers, 1857-1866. 13 frames.
0601 Folder 3, Papers, 1887 and 1898. 4 frames.
0605 Folder 4, Currency, 1864. 2 frames.
0607 Folder 5, Newspaper Clippings, 1892, 1901, and Undated. 11 frames.
0618 List of Omissions from James Hagan and Family Papers, Mss. 1485, 1833-1901. 1 frame.
Hall, Ben W. Papers, 1861-1862 [Burnett and Travis Counties, Texas] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection contains correspondence and military orders relating to Hall’s service in the Confederate Army.
0553 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0556 Correspondence, October 10, 1861-December 5,
1862. 15 frames.
0571 Military Orders, October 11, 1861-September 19,
1862. 11 frames.
0582 “List of Men from Travis County at Work at the
Salt Works of James Daughtery and Company.” 1 frame.
Hamilton, James Allen Diary, 1861-1864 [Corsicana, Galveston, Limestone County, and Navarro County, Texas; also Louisiana and Tennessee] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of Hamilton’s diary of his service in Captain Melton’s Company of Texas Volunteer Infantry.
0583 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
0588 Biographical Sketch, Notes on the James Allen
Hamilton Diary, 1960. 3 frames.
0591 Diary, October 4, 1861-July 7, 1864. 14 frames.
Hardeman Jr., Blackstone Papers, 1833-1927 [Denton and Nacogdoches Counties, Texas; also District of Columbia, Georgia, and Mississippi] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
These papers relate to Blackstone Hardeman Jr. and his family. Hardeman served in Company K of the First Texas Infantry Regiment. Materials include correspondence, legal documents, financial records, receipts, a speech, genealogical material, account ledgers, and a muster roll.
0605 Introductory Materials. 6 frames.
0611 Omissions List. 2 frames.
0613 Correspondence, May 25, 1857-March 4, 1928. 8
frames.
0621 Correspondence, June 24, 1862-October 29, 1927
[Photostats]. 36 frames.
0657 Legal Documents, August 4, 1834-December 24,
1873. 12 frames.
0669 Financial Records, 1833-1854. 8 frames.
0677 Receipt, Undated. 1 frame.
0678 Speech, Undated. 5 frames.
0683 Genealogical Material from the Hardeman Family
Bible [Photostats]. 6 frames.
0689 Muster Roll, Company K, First Texas Regiment,
Army, Confederate States of America. 7 frames.
Hart, M. Letter, Mss. 4553, 1862 [Port Hudson, Louisiana]. Location: Reel 6A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
This collection consists of one item, a letter, 10 November 1862, from M. Hart, Port Hudson, Louisiana, to Nehemiah Williams. The letter describes camp life, discouragement, rumors, and family news.
0619 Introductory Materials. 3 frames.
0622 Letter, 10 November 1862. 3 frames.
Haynie, Martin L. Letter, 1810. West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Location: Reel 6, Antebellum Southern Plantations.
Martin L. Haynie, originally from Baltimore, Maryland, was active against the Spanish in Louisiana and Florida in the 1810s. The collection consists of a letter, dated October 25, 1810, from Martin L. Haynie, St. Francisville, Louisiana, to John Ballinger, who was in command at a fort on the present site of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Haynie discussed his role in stirring up sentiment for revolt against the Spanish among the American inhabitants in the region, a contemplated expedition against the Spanish at Pensacola, and his thoughts about a “new republic,” which might replace Spanish rule. Haynie also indicated that he would soon travel to Baltimore.
0285 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0289 Folder 1, 1810. 5 frames.
Head, William P. Papers, 1861-1869 [Kentucky Town, Texas; also Arkansas and Louisiana] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of correspondence by William Head relating to his service in the Civil War.
0696 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0700 Correspondence, May 7, 1862-July 11, 1869. 50
frames.
Heartsill, William Willis Papers, 1863-1865 and 1911-1916 [Huntsville, Marshall, and Waco, Texas; also Arkansas and Virginia] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection contains Heartsill’s diaries and notebooks. Materials included are notes on Confederate veterans, with specific reference to such figures as Patrick Cleburne. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, and Theodore O’Hara. The collection also contains newspaper clippings and a map of Polk County, Texas.
0750 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
0755 Diary, September 17, 1863-February 12, 1865. 48
frames.
0803 Notes on Major General Patrick Cleburne. 4
frames.
0807 Notes on Nathan Bedford Forrest. 5 frames.
0812 Notes on Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson.
7 frames.
0819 Notes on Theodore O’Hara. 1 frame
0820 General Notes on Confederate Veterans. 1 frame.
0821 Notebook of Remarks Upon the Deaths of
Confederate Veterans, March 1908-July 6, 1916. 34 frames.
0855 Notes on Omission of Transcription of Diary and
Notebook of Remarks on the Deaths of Confederate Veterans, 1953. 2 frames.
0857 Newspaper Clippings, Undated. 1 frame.
0858 Map of Polk County, Texas, Undated. 2 frames.
Hennen-Jennings Family Papers, Mss. 748, 1803-1918 [New Orleans, Louisiana]. Location: Reel 6 & 7A, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Alfred Hennen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New Haven, Connecticut, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1808 and bought a country house named Retreat. His sister, Eliza Hennen, and his father, Dr. James Hennen, lived in Nashville, Tennessee. Alfred Hennen was a civil lawyer, a Presbyterian, a professor of constitutional law in New Orleans, and a director of the old Bank of Louisiana. His daughter, Ann Marie Jennings, née Hennen, married Needler R. Jennings in 1843. Jennings was a major in the Confederate army and served as aide-de-camp to Gen. Leonidas Polk at the Battle of Shiloh, 1862, where Jennings was wounded. Needler R. Jennings died in 1863. Ann Marie Jennings received a pardon from Andrew Johnson in 1866 for her part in the rebellion.
This collection consists of 216 items, papers, 1803-1918(bulk 1850-1870), of the Hennen and Jennings family. The bulk of the collection consists of family correspondence to Ann Marie Jennings and others from family members, 1830-1918. Personal letters of Alfred Hennen are written from Philadelphia and New Haven to his sister, Eliza Hennen, and his father, Dr. James Hennen, and concern religious matters, 1803-1823. Correspondence to Needler R. Jennings includes letters from Alexander Dimitry, historian and educator, 1851-1856; a letter from L. Agassiz, Swiss scientist and educator, 1852; letters from Pierre Soule, U.S. senator, minister to Spain, and Confederate official, 1853-1863; and a letter from Gen. Leonidas Polk commending him on his services, 1862. Most Civil War correspondence is addressed to members of the Jennings family. Documents include a pardon of Ann Marie Jennings, signed by Andrew Johnson, which entitled her to own property, 1866; a testamentary document of Needler R. Jennings, 1863; and the Italian passport of Ann Marie Jennings and her daughters, 1869. Undated items include stories by Louisiana author Octavius N. Ogden, husband of Cora Hennen Jennings. Also included are an unidentified photograph and genealogical records of Rev. Henry Smith and the Ogden family, undated.
A list of omissions from Hennen-Jennings Family Papers, Mss. 748, 1803-1918, is provided on Reel 7, Frame 0384. Omissions consist of printed volumes, including sermons and discourses of Rev. Benjamin M. Palmer, and a bound manuscript volume of essays by Needler R. Jennings.
0625 Introductory Materials. 12 frames.
0637 Folder 1, Papers, 1803-1823. 22 frames.
0659 Folder 2, Papers, 1832-1838. 92 frames.
0751 Folder 3, Papers, 1840-1859. 152 frames.
Reel 7
0001 Folder 4, Papers, 1860-1868. 179 frames.
0180 Folder 5, Papers, 1870-1918. 40 frames.
0220 Folder 6, Papers, Undated. 123 frames.
0343 Folder 7, Newspaper Clippings, 1807-1896. 14 frames.
0357 Folder 8, Newspaper Clippings, 1901-1935 and Undated. 27 frames.
0384 List of Omissions from Hennen- Jennings Family Papers, Mss. 748, 1803-1918. 1 frame.
Hero, Andrew Jr. and George Hero Papers, Mss. 976, 977, 994, 1030, 1039, 1829-1905 [New Orleans, Louisiana; also Virginia] Location: Reel 8; Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Andrew J. Hero, Jr. was a captain in the Washington Artillery of the Confederate army. Organized in 1838, this unit fought in the Mexican War as Persifal Smith’s Regiment. It was reorganized in 1852 as the Washington Artillery and was among the most famous of the Confederate volunteer artillery units, being composed of prominent men of New Orleans. Hero served chiefly in Virginia, February 1861-April 1865. He was a Republican candidate for membership in the U.S. House of Representatives and acted as Louisiana state representative at several national Republican conventions. He was also an agent for the purchase of land in Texas for other people. He was appointed commissioner of deeds in the states of Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Ohio.
This collection consists of 559 items, two manuscript volumes, and four printed volumes, papers, 1829-1905, of Andrew Hero Jr. and George Hero. Correspondence; financial, professional, and political papers; and photographs document the personal and professional life of Andrew Hero Jr. Correspondence includes letters and telegrams that treat matters of financial, political, and personal interest and mention the Washington Artillery. Civil War-era letters describe camp life (especially in Manassas and Petersburg, Virginia), fighting, maneuvers, morale, personnel, transportation by railroad, and other matters. Financial papers illustrate purchases of land for himself and for others, 1840-1890, and include deeds, land grants, mortgage agreements, and tax and insurance receipts. Professional papers show his appointments as commissioner of deeds to various states, 1866-1879. Political papers reflect his activities in the Republican Party as a candidate for membership in the U.S. House of Representatives. Personal papers document his role in the Washington Artillery and invitations addressed to Matilda Hero reflect the various functions sponsored by the Washington Artillery. Two photograph albums illustrate the lives of Andrew Hero Jr. and his family and include some Civil War images.
A list of omissions from Andrew Jr. and George H. Hero Papers, Mss. 976, 977, 994, 1030, 1039, 1829-1905, is provided on Reel 8, Frame 0566. Omitted items consist of printed matter and plats.
0385 Introductory materials. 19 frames.
0404 Folder 1, Papers, 1829-1860. 42 frames.
0446 Folder 2, Papers, 1861-1862. 107 frames.
0553 Folder 3, Papers, 1863-1865. 84 frames.
0637 Folder 4, Papers, 1866-1869. 58 frames.
0695 Folder 5, Papers, 1870-1874. 79 frames.
0774 Folder 6, Papers, 1875-1879. 105 frames.
0879 Folder 7, Papers, 1880-1881. 96 frames.
Reel 8
0001 Folder 8, Papers, 1882. 63 frames.
0064 Folder 9, Papers, 1883. 70 frames.
0134 Folder 10, Papers, 1884-1888. 74 frames.
0208 Folder 11, Papers, 1889-1891. 123 frames.
0331 Folder 12, Papers, 1893-1905. 39 frames.
0370 Folder 13, Papers, Undated. 7 frames.
0377 Folder 14, Commissions, 1865-1879. 19 frames.
0396 Folder 15, Commissions, 1878-1880. 53 frames.
0449 Folder 16, Commissions, 1881-1890. 58 frames.
0507 Folder 17, Newspaper Clippings, 1902 and
Undated. 4 frames.
0511 Folder 18, Photographs, Undated. 7 frames.
0518 Volume 1, Picture Album, Undated. 25 frames.
0543 Volume 2, Picture Album, 1883-1894 and
Undated. 23 frames.
0566 List of Omissions from Andrew Jr. and George
Hero Papers, Mss. 976, 977, 994, 1030, 1039, 1829-1905. 1 frame.
Hinckley, Orramel and Family Papers, Mss. 970, 1151, 1317, 1811-1897 [New Orleans and Opelousas and St. Landry Parishes, Louisiana] Reel 8 & 9 Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Orramel Hinckley (1813-1868) was a steamboat operator and captain whose business was centered principally in New Orleans and Opelousas, Louisiana. His wife, Anna Hawley Gardner (1824-1886), and son, Orramel Strong Hinckley (1840-1885), lived in Washington, St. Landry Parish. The Hinckleys were related to the families of Asa Norton and Thomas Gardner, tanners and dealers in hides and deerskins in St. Landry Parish.
The collection consists of 335 items and sixteen volumes. Personal and business papers, 1834-1897, of Orramel Hinckley document his work as a steamboat captain. The collection includes five photographs of Hinckley family members. Civil War letters and papers pertain largely to the transportation of government stores and the procurement of supplies for the Confederate army. Hinckley served as a second lieutenant on Confederate transport vessels. A letter, undated, of Orran Gardner, Camp Boggs, Shreveport, Louisiana, requests clothing and describes camp conditions and Federal prisoners of war. A letter, 16 July 1861, from Capt. Nat Offutt, Fairfax Station, Virginia, describes the Confederate preparations for battle there. Other Civil War letters and items concern riverborne commerce and the movement of material. Confederate States’ orders and tax receipts and amnesty oaths signed by members of the Hinckley family are included.
A list of omissions from Orramel Hinckley and Family Papers, Mss. 970, 1151, 1317, 1811-1897, is provided on Reel 9, Frame 0189. Omissions consist of volumes and printed matter, including account books concerning personal and business affairs, and folders 12 and 14, printed items concerning medicine and Freemasons.
0567 Introductory Materials. 9 frames.
0576 Folder 1, Papers, 1811-1819 and Undated Items
on Making Leather. 19 frames.
0595 Folder 2, Papers, 1820-1829. 37 frames.
0632 Folder 3, Papers, 1830-1839. 77 frames.
0709 Folder 4, Papers, 1840-1849. 63 frames.
0772 Folder 5, Papers, 1850-1857. 92 frames.
0864 Folder 6, Papers, 1858-1860. 85 frames.
Reel 9
0001 Folder 7, papers, 1861-1865. 67 frames.
0068 Folder 8m Papers, 1866-1897. 56 frames.
0124 Folder 9, Papers, Undated. 7 frames.
0131 Folder 10, Newspapers, 1867-1887. 11 frames.
0142 Folder 11, Pictures, Undated. 6 frames.
0148 Folder 13, Copies and Extracts of Manuscripts and
Genealogical Data, Undated. 41 frames.
0189 List of Omissions from Orramel Hinckley and
Family Papers, Mss. 970, 1151, 1317, 1811-1897. 1 frame.
Hinson, R. M. Papers, Mss. 893, 1861 [Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana; also Arkansas and Missouri] Reel 9 Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
R. M. Hinson (d. 1861) was a Confederate captain in Company B, Morehouse Guards, 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Hinson enlisted on 17 May 1861 and was killed on 10 August 1861, after the Battle of Oak Hills, Missouri.
This collection consists of three items, letters from R. M. Hinson to his wife, Mattie, of Bastrop, Morehouse Parish. Letters describe scenery along the line of march from Van Buren, Arkansas, to Maysville, Missouri, and military events under the leadership of Col. Hyams and Brig. Gen. McCulloch. A military pass issued to Hinson is also present.
0190 Introductory Materials. 4 frames.
0194 Papers, 1861. 10 frames.
Holmsley, James M. Papers, 1861-1864 and 1872-1898 [Camp Colorado, Camp Cooper, Camp Jackson, Camp Leon, Comanche, Fort Belknap, Fort Mason, Galveston, San Antonio, and Uvalde, Texas] Location: Reel 19; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
These papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, financial records, receipts, essays, muster rolls, monthly returns, military orders and reports, quartermaster records, certificates of disability, an inventory of personal effects of deceased soldiers, and photographs. Holmsley served in Company G of the 1st Regiment of Texas Mounted Riflemen in the confederate Army.
0860 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
0865 Correspondence, October 1861-May 6, 1898, and
Undated. 26 frames.
0891 Legal Documents, July 21, 1867- February 19,
1881. 9 frames.
0900 Personal Receipts, September 20, 1873-August 8,
1882. 4 frames.
0904 Wichita Savings Bank Account Record, September
14- November 21, 1874. 2 frames.
0906 Promissory Notes, September 4, 1871- Ocrobert
11, 1872. 6 frames.
0912 Personal Check, July 12, 1898. 1 frame.
0913 Essay on Texas Indians, Undated. 3 frames.
0916 Essay on Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, Undated. 9
frames.
0925 Note on Omission of Transcript of Essay on
Almonte. 1 frame.
0926 Printed Material, Undated. 2 frames.
0928 Muster Rolls, April [?]- December 24, 1864. 6
frames.
0934 [Untitled Folder-Monthly Returns, August,
December 1861, August 1862, Commissioned Officers Present and Absent, January 31, 1861, June 1862]. 10 frames.
0944 Abstract of Articles Transferred and Officer
Present, 1862. 3 frames.
0947 Military Orders, May 11, 1861-March 3, 1864. 18
frames.
0965 [Untitled Folder-Quartermaster’s Report,
February 29, 1864]. 3 frames.
0968 Quartermaster’s Reports, November 4, 1861- July
1864. 15 frames.
0983 [Untitled Folder-Quartermaster’s Report, March
31, 1864]. 5 frames.
0988 Receipts, June 1, 1862-January 1, 1864, and
Undated. 9 frames.
0997 [Untitled Folder-Monthly Statement of Funds
Received and Disbursed at Fort Clark, Texas, February 1863]. 4 frames.
1001 Soldier’s Certificates of Disability, September 24,
1863-February 11, 1864. 9 frames.
1010 Inventory of Personal Effects of Norman Grisham,
Deceased, January 2, 186[?]. 3 frames.
1013 [Untitled Folder-Photographs]. 3 frames.
Howe, Milton G. Papers, 1844 and 1863-1900 [Beaumont, Brazoria County, Columbia, Galveston, Hinkle’s Ferry, Houston, Liberty, Sabine City, San Antonio, Sherman, and Velasco, Texas; also Louisiana] Location: Reel 19 and 20; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of correspondence, receipts, property tax notices, maps, newspaper clippings, photographs, military papers and order, quartermaster’s records and reports, muster rolls, a discharge, a commission, a parole, and an amnesty oath relating to Howe’s service as a captain in the First Engineers Battalion of the Confederate Army.
1016 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
1021 Omissions List. 2 frames.
1023 Correspondence, G. W. Hill, U. S. Secretary of
War, Reply to the Citizens of Milam County, Texas, June 24, 1844, regarding Indian Depredations. 4 frames.
1027 Map of Howe Property, Galveston, Texas,
Undated. 3 frames.
1030 [Untitled Folder-List of Bounty, Donation, and
headright Certificates, 1846]. 4 frames.
1034 Power of Attorney, March 7, 1864. 2 frames.
1036 Photographs, “Caroline and Son John, 11 days.” 1
frame.
1037 Photographs, “Our House from the McHenry
Corner the Day After the Storm.” 3 frames.
1040 General and Special Orders, September 8, 1862
March 28, 1865. 83 frames.
Reel 20
0003 Military Correspondence, January 17, 1863-March
31, 1864. 118 frames.
0121 Military Correspondence, April 2, 1864-February
16, 1865, and Undated. 121 frames.
0242 Quartermaster’s Records, June 3-December 27,
1862. 24 frames.
0266 Quartermaster’s Records, June 3, 1863-May 2,
1865. 85 frames.
0351 [Untitled Folder-Muster Rolls, July 1, 1862-March
11, 1865]. 167 frames.
0518 Descriptive Roll of Enlisted Men Transferred to
the 1st Engineers Battalion, March 1864. 1 frame.
0519 Report of Negroes Employed in the Construction
of Pontoon Bridges on the San Bernard River, January 4-March 10, 1864. 10 frames.
0529 Descriptive List of Negroes Assigned to the
Engineering Department, April 24-28, 1865. 4 frames.
0533 J. W. Ravenna, Soldier’s Discharge, May 24, 1865.
2 frames.
0535 Milton G. Howe Commission, April 30, 1864. 2
frames.
0537 Milton G. Howe Parole, June 21, 1865. 2 frames.
0539 Milton G. Howe Amnesty Oath, June 28, 1865. 2
frames.
0541 Map, Cedar Bayou, Undated. 1 frame.
0542 Diagram and Notes on Pontoon Bridges, 1864. 6
frames.
0548 Maps and Diagrams, [Undated]. 5 frames.
0553 Omissions List. 1 frame.
Howell, W. Randolph Papers, 1861-1879 [Anderson, Galveston, Gonzales, Grimes County, Hall’s Bluff, Hempstead, Henderson, Houston, Navasota, Plantersville, Rusk County, and San Antonio, Texas; also Louisiana and New Mexico] Location: Reel 20; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists of correspondence, a diary, and clippings relating to Howell, who served in the 2nd Regiment of Sibley’s Brigade, Confederate Army.
0554 Introductory Materials. 5 frames.
0559 Correspondence, 1861-1879. 76 frames.
0635 Diary, [April 30, 1861-February 12, 1862]. 60
frames.
0695 Diary, 1863-1865. 43 frames.
Hudson, Franklin A. Diaries, 1853-1859, Iberville Parish, Louisiana; Reel 12 Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations
In the 1850s, Franklin A. Hudson was the owner of Blythewood Plantation on Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, Louisiana.
The collection consists of seven volumes of a diary kept by Franklin A. Hudson, 1852-1857 and 1859, and of a typed transcription of these volumes. There is no volume in the collection for 1858.
Entries relate chiefly to the cultivation and processing of sugar cane, corn, and other crops, such as peas and sweet potatoes. Hudson mentioned other plantation activities, including work on buildings, fences, cooperage, bayous, and roads. He frequently mentioned the weather and often referred to his overseers.
There also are frequent references to slaves and their care. Entries refer to purchasing slaves’ clothing, providing their housing, treating their illnesses, and providing physicians to attend them. There also are references to physicians attending members of Hudson’s own family, and to medicines and cures. Hudson mentioned a minister who came frequently to preach to the slaves.
There also are references to social affairs and to neighbors, including the Randolphs, the Vaughans, and Louisiana governor Paul Octave Hébert. Hudson wrote of frequent trips on the Mississippi River, giving names of boats and a few details of travel, as well as listing expenses. He also made brief entries giving bare details of visits, traveling by water and otherwise, to Ohio, to New York where his mother lived at Fort Plain, and, in July—August 1859, to Canada.
Hudson occasionally mentioned church attendance while at home and on trips. He kept records of contributions he made to church collections.
Hudson also kept financial accounts in these diaries. Many daily entries list amounts paid out for goods and services, such as “Paid for butter .20,” “Charge Overseer for 25 lbs meat @ .7 ½,” and “Cash to wife ----2.00.” In later volumes, in addition to such entries, Hudson kept cash accounts separately in the back of the book, showing amounts received and amounts paid.
Biographical Note
In the 1850s and 1860s, Franklin A. Hudson (fl. 1852-1871), owned, and lived at, Blythewood Plantation on Bayou Goula in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, near White Castle. He was a neighbor of John Hampden Randolph, who owned Nottoway Plantation.
In 1858 or 1859, Hudson sold half of his interest in Blythewood to Randolph, and the plantation was operated by the two in partnership until 1871, when Randolph acquired full ownership.
N.B. For biographical information on Franklin A. Hudson, see Paul E. Postell, “John Hampden Randolph,” M.A. thesis, Louisiana State University, 1936.
A related collection among the holdings of the Southern Historical Collection is the George H. Murrell Paper.
Another related collection exists among the holdings of the Louisiana State University Libraries, where the John H. Randolph Papers include material regarding the partnership between Franklin A. Hudson and John H. Randolph. This collection is included in UPA’s Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series l, Part 1.
0282 Introductory Materials. 8 frames.
Original Diaries
0290 Folder 1, Volume 1, 1852. 74 frames.
0364 Folder 2, Volume 2, 1853. 73 frames.
0437 Folder 3, Volume 3, 1854. 80 frames.
0517 Folder 4, Volume 4, 1855. 96 frames.
0613 Folder 5, Volume 5, 1856. 95 frames.
0708 Folder 6, Volume 6, 1857. 95 frames.
0803 Folder 7, Volume 7, 1859. 92 frames.
0895 Folder 8, Volume I, 1852-1853. 75 frames.
0970 Folder 9, Volume II, 1854-1856. 189 frames.
Reel 13
0001 Folder 10, Volume III, 1857, 1859. 177 frames.
Hudson, Franklin A. Diaries cont. Typed Transcriptions of Diaries, 1852-1859 cont. Reel 13 Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations
Folder 10, Volume lll, 1857, 1859. 177 frames.
Hunter, Nathaniel Wych and Malcolm Kenmore Hunter Family Papers, 1860-1877 [1887] [Columbus, Eagle Pass, Fort Bliss, Fort Duncan, Galveston, Independence, Palestine, San Antonio, and San Marcos, Texas; also Kentucky, Louisiana, and New Mexico] Location: Reel 20; Confederate Military Manuscripts University of Texas at Austin
These papers consist of correspondence relating to the Hunter family. Much of the correspondence relates to the Hunters’ service in the Confederate Army and to military operations in New Mexico and Arizona. Also includes material on the Battle of Springfield, Missouri.
0738 Introductory Materials. 6 frames.
0744 [Correspondence], 1860-1887. 55 frames.
Hunter-Taylor Family Papers, Mss. 3024, 1848-1899 [East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana; also Mississippi Georgia, and Ohio]. Reel 9 Confederate Military Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
The Hunter and Taylor families were residents of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Sereno Taylor (1794-1867) was a minister and principal of Silliman Female College Institute in Clinton, Louisiana. He was married to Mary Emerson Creed Taylor (1798-1870); their daughter, Stella Bradley Taylor (1834-1924), married Samuel Eugene Hunter (1832-1870), who was made a colonel in the 4th Louisiana Regiment of the Confederate army, January 1863.
This collection consists of 346 items and six volumes. Correspondence includes letters of Sereno Taylor and Mary Emerson Creed Taylor concerning family and social matters, education at Silliman Institute, and the Civil War. Letters of Stella Bradley Taylor and Samuel Eugene Hunter pertain to family and social subjects and include letters written by Samuel during his service as colonel in the 4th Louisiana Regiment; the letters concern military service in Mississippi and Georgia and experiences as a prisoner of war in Johnson’s Island Prison, Sandusky, Ohio. Included is a list of casualties of the 4th Louisiana Regiment and a roll of the “Hunter Rifles.” Family papers include miscellaneous financial and legal documents, papers concerning the Silliman Institute, poetry, and an unidentified photograph. One diary and four items record journal entries of Mary Emerson Creed Taylor, 1860-1864. An anonymous travel diary, 1862-1863, documents a tour of Europe, focusing on France and Italy.
A list of omissions from Hunter-Taylor Family Papers, Mss. 3024, 1848-1899, is provided on Reel 10, Frame 0049.
0204 Introductory Materials. 13 frames.
0217 Folder 1, Correspondence, 1848-1859. 99 frames.
0316 Folder 2, Correspondence, 1860-1861. 43 frames.
0359 Folder 3, Correspondence, 1862. 48 frames.
0407 Folder 4, Correspondence, 1863. 81 frames.
0488 Folder 5, Correspondence, 1864. 123 frames.
0611 Folder 6, Correspondence, 1865. 98 frames.
0709 Folder 7, Correspondence, 1866-1883. 74 frames.
0783 Folder 8, Correspondence, Undated. 73 frames.
0856 Folder 10, Photograph, Undated. 73 frames.
0858 Folder 15, Travel Journal, 1862-1863. 28 frames.
0886 Folder 16, Mary E. Taylor Diary, 1860-1864. 102
frames.
Reel 10
0001 Folder 17, Mary E. Taylor Diary, 1868. 28 frames.
0029 Folder 18, Sarah G. Brown Papers, Typed
Transcription of Mary E. Taylor Diary, 1861-1864. 20 frames.
0049 List of Omissions from Hunter-Taylor Family
Papers, Mss. 3024, 1848-1899. 1 frame
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Jackson, Riddle, and Company Papers, 1835-1839, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; also Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Location: Reel 19, Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations.
Jackson, Riddle & Company were commission merchants of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Liverpool, England. The firm, which later became Jackson, Todd, & Co., dealt in the sale of cotton, sugar, tobacco, sheet iron, nails, and coal. Washington Jackson was principal owner, and his son, Bolton Jackson, oversaw operations in Liverpool. The company, which received some of its financing from the Bank of the United States, carried on business with clients and associates in the Northeastern and Southern states, England, and France.
This collection contains business letters received by Jackson, Riddle, & Co. (1836-1838) and Jackson, Todd, & Co. (1838-1839); about one-half are letters from other commission merchants, including Byrne Hermann & Co. of New Orleans; Daniel Buchanan & Son of Liverpool; Nevins Townsend & Co., Thomas Barrett & Co., and W. J. Brown & Co. of New York; and William Ferriday & Co. of Natchez, Mississippi. Other frequent correspondents are Stephen Duncan and John Ker, planters of Natchez, Mississippi; other planters in Mississippi and Louisiana; Edward Brook and Kennis Whitaker Co., iron makers of Birdsborough Forge and Reading, Pennsylvania, respectively; Isaac Brooks, retail merchant of Baltimore, Maryland; and George Dickey, stock broker of New York. Letters discuss crop outlooks, agricultural prices, stock market trends, and domestic and international trade. Other topics of interest are France’s refusal to pay claims by American shippers for vessels seized by Napoleon and the great fire of 1835 in New York City’s financial district.
The letters in this collection are particularly useful for the study of early nineteenth-century agricultural market conditions, the nascent iron industry in Pennsylvania, stock market trends, domestic trade networks, and trade relations with France.
Limited information appears on Washington Jackson’s personal finances, and none appears on his family or social life. The activities of Jackson’s partners, Riddle and Todd, find no mention in the letters. Likewise, only limited information emerges on the letters’ authors, who rarely strayed from discussion of immediate business concerns.
Biographical Note
Washington Jackson (fl. 1835-1855), commission merchant, ran, along with his partners, Riddle and Todd, a diverse business in agricultural and hardware products. His company, Jackson, Riddle & Co., which became Jackson, Todd, & Co. in late 1838, operated out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a branch in Liverpool, England. Jackson’s sons, Bolton Jackson, went to England to establish operations there in January 1838. Jackson and his partners sold sugar, tobacco, and cotton produced by southern (mostly Mississippi and Louisiana) planters, and purchased northern-produced sheet iron, nails, and other hardware items and coal for resale to planters and to southern and northern retail merchants, manufacturers, and railroad builders. The company carried on business with individuals and firms in New York, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Limited international trade consisted of the importation of French foodstuffs from J. H. Boyer & Co. of Bordeaux and of English iron for use by Pennsylvania nailmakers.
Letters from 1838 indicate that Jackson, Riddle & Co. received some of its financing through loans from the Bank of the United States. Jackson also invested frequently in the stock market through his broker, George Dickey, of New York.
Jackson maintained close ties with a number of other commission merchants, including Byrne Hermann & Co. of New Orleans; Daniel Buchanan & Son of Liverpool; Nevins Townsend & Co., Thomas Barrett & Co. and W. J. Brown & Co. of New York; and William Ferriday & Co. of Natchez, Mississippi. Planters for whom Jackson’s firm carried out commission sales included Dr. Stephen Duncan and John Ker of Natchez, Mississippi. Edward Brook and Kennis Whitaker Co., iron makers of Birdsborough Forge and Reading, Pennsylvania, respectively, provided Jackson with most of the iron he purchased for resale. Isaac Brooks, who appears to have been his largest hardware customer, was a retail merchant in Baltimore, Maryland.
0001 Introductory Materials. 13 frames.
0014 Folder 1, January 8-December 26, 1835. 61
