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Article on Slaves Found by Union Troops at Brashear City
In this article, the New York Herald takes notice of a letter from Gen, Godfrey Weitzel to Department of the Gulf headquarters about "Four Hundred Wagonloads of Negroes" left behind by evacuating Confederates in Brashear City. Although Weitzel's…
Drawing of Refugee Women Outside of Vicksburg
This artists' sketch depicts Confederate refugees in the woods outside of Vicksburg and was published not long after the city's fall. It shows women receiving letters about the fates of soldiers on the battlefield, while an African American woman…
Receipts and Exchange Certificates of J. S. O. Brooks
These images were selected from the Confederate Citizens File records for J. S. O. Brooks and detail his sale of salt to Confederate military officials early in the war. The selection also includes exchange certificates for new issue currency later…
Desertion Record for Samuel Q. Richardson
Richardson was a Van Zandt County resident who enlisted in the Texas 22nd Infantry but had deserted by December 1862, if not earlier. This record from the NARA indicates that he was labeled as a deserter in the regimental return for that month.
Amnesty Oath and Examination of Samuel Q. Richardson
Richardson was a resident of Van Zandt County, Texas, who enlisted in the 22nd Infantry in Texas but then deserted in Louisiana in 1863. He spent the remainder of the war with his brother-in-law in Clark County, Missouri, but then applied for amnesty…
Account Book of Daniel Dudley Avery, 1865-1867
An accounting book showing entries between October 1865 and July 1867.
Dr. M. Judson is mentioned as one of the persons with whom Avery had an
account.
Recollections of Aunt Maria Houston
This 1883 account, enclosed in a volume listing invitees to Sarah Marsh
Avery's wedding, details the recollections of "Aunt Maria Houston" on her
being brought to Avery Island as a slave around 1833 by John C. Marsh,
father-in-law of Daniel Dudley…
List of Graves at Avery Island
An incomplete list of "graves beneath the cluster of oaks in front of the house," probably recorded by Sarah Avery Leeds together with Aunt Eliza Robertson. The list includes the names of some family "servants," including William Odel (d. 1882) and…
List of Avery Family Servants
This list in the back of a volume kept by Sara Avery Leeds about her
wedding gives the names of numerous "servants" who worked for the family
before and after slavery. The earliest notations seem to have been made in
1885, but there are also…