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Weeks updates "Bill," presumably his brother about what he saw on a recent return to Louisiana and also discusses various arrangments for hauling cotton and hiring out slaves. Several named slaves are mentioned.

Writing from Parish St. Mary, he has apparently seen Mary Weeks at the home plantation, and reports that "this country is again virgually abandoned by our troops." He does "not know when I shall return to Texas. Say in about 3 weeks. Mean time one of…

Weeks has heard from Franklin that "two negroes belonging to one of us" have been captured and put in jail in Lafourche, one badly shot and unlikely to recover. Weeks suspects they are "William & Charles."

Writing to "Bill" (William F. Weeks?), who had been in Houston recently, Weeks reports that heavy rains and rising water have "upset all our calculations," apparently referring to crops that had been planted. Reporting on uncertainty of Confederate…

A. J. Bennett, the superintendent of the Huntsville penitentiary, writes to Governor E. J. Davis about the injustices suffered by people of color in the state and in the prison system.

This copied note from January 4, 1865, requests salt from the state works at Jordan's Saline to support soldiers' families in Kaufman County. The author appears to be the county commissioner. Also mentions a Mr. Yarbra (probably Yarbough). Other…

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…

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…

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…

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 (?).