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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…

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.

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…

In this September 1863 broadside, the Office of the Chief Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi Department calls for Confederate slaveholders in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, to hire out 2,000 to 3,000 "able-bodied men" to the government,…

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…

This agreement shows that Chamberlain rented his 65-acre plantation, known as Park Place, and also his 110-acre plantation, known as the Robertson Place, both in Cherokee County, to Williams, a refugee from Louisiana, for the year 1865.

In these brief notes from November 1864, J. B. Miller, a salt maker at Neches Salt Works in Texas, asks Richard L. Pugh, a refugee planter from Louisiana who was working at the saline, to send orders of salt to him and another named buyer in…

Miller writes from Kickapoo instructing Pugh, who is at Neches Saline, to give Henry Day, the superintendent of the Government Iron Works, the amount of salt he requests. Miller also asks Pugh to "sell for us our dry salt to any person" at five…

Writing on behalf of C. G. Young, Maples asks Pugh to send some salt "by the boy Sampson" and also gives instructions about an account with Mr. Wafford.