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Receipt for the Hire of a Slave at the State Salt Works
Receipt acknowledging payment of $70 in Confederate notes and fifteen sacks of salt (3,000 lbs) "for the hire of a negro man eight months in 1864" from S. C. Callicoate. Another receipt (not included here) from September 23 records payment of 2,060…
Receipt for the Hire of Slaves and Teams at State Salt Works
A receipt acknowledging payment of $2,000 in Confederate notes and four thousand lbs of salt "for hire of negroes and teams in 1864" from G. S. Lusk (?).
Statement of Payment to Sue Harris for Hire of Slaves and Teams at State Salt Works
This affidavit by A. H. Abney, former agent of the State Military Board at the salt works at Jordan's Saline, certifies that he paid a Miss Sue Harrison $1800 in Confederate money and 3,200 pounds of salt "for the hire of negroes and teams in the…
Statement of Payment to Sue Harris for Hire of Slaves and Teams at State Salt Works
This affidavit by A. H. Abney, former agent of the State Military Board at the salt works at Jordan's Saline, certifies that he paid a Miss Sue Harrison $1800 in Confederate money and 3,200 pounds of salt "for the hire of negroes and teams in the…
Account Sheet of A. H. Abney at Jordan's Saline, 1864
This ledger sheet for 1864 shows that Abney received a total $44,945.88 from the State Military Board to manufacture salt at Jordan's Saline; he spent all of it but about $63 on the hire of hands and teams. Named persons receiving payment in cash…
Letter from A. H. Abney to Andrew Jackson Hamilton, September 25, 1865
The former state agent for the Texas Military Board, A. H. Abney, explains to the new provisional governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton how he has managed the salt works under his charge, and where the money he was given for the business has gone. In…
List of Personnel Detailed by Texas Military Board
A list of contractors and employers detailed for work by the Texas Military
Board to perform service such as hauling goods or manufacturing salt.
Excerpt from Letter to Captain Thomas F. Luckett
The Military Board writes to Luckett concerning some reports the latter has
made about the activities of two men named Wheat and Fletcher, formerly of
the Brazos Manufacturing Company.
Letters from Military Board to Wheat and Fletcher
Wheat and Fletcher, formerly of the Brazos Manufacturing Company, have
written to the board asking for detail exemptions from the draft for a list
of men in their employ. The Board replies approving most of their requests
but specifying the terms on…
Letter from Pendleton Murrah to Thomas F. Luckett
Murrah writes to clarify with Luckett the names of those agents authorized
by the Brazos Manufacturing Company to sell cotton along the Mexican border.