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This letter, most likely written by Margaret "Maggie" Weeks, wife of Charles C. Weeks, was sent from Wood Park in Desoto Parish Louisiana. She tells "Bud," who may be William F. Weeks, that she is glad of his safe arrival in Texas, especially given…

Burnett writes from New Iberia about his "idea of going to Texas" and his desire to settle a debt to Moore before leaving.

This front page from the Shreveport News includes a runaway ad posted by James S. Moore about a refugeed slave who ran from Jordan's Saline, also mentioned in the Clarksville Standard. It also mentions that the government headquarters in Shreveport…

An account of Civil War events in Assumption Parish, LA, during 1862, focusing on how Union occupation disrupted slavery and plantation operations in the area.

Leigh reports to Moore that he has rented 140 acres of "the best of Brazos bottom land," planted with corn, in Sterling, Robinson County, Texas, for which he paid one third of his yield. He had also hired out all of he hands at $25 per month for men…

Leigh reports to his father-in-law about an upcoming trip to visit some refugee friends living in Millican, a railroad depot on the Central in Grimes County. He also describes the corn crop in Texas as one of the best he has ever seen, and is…

Moore begins with a lengthy discussion of the accounts of W. F. Weeks & Co., and then shares his plans to go to Shreveport soon to "settle with C. S. officers for the hire & loss of slaves working on the Public Works." While some of the officers he…

Moore writes to Weeks about his intention to keep most of his "hand" in Desoto Parish, sending a few back to the Teche to raise a crop if possible there and on the Magill plantation. He is confident that Weeks's "reasoning in relation to the detail…

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.

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…