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Avery Family Papers, Records of the Antebellum Southern Plantations, Series J, Part 5, Reel 11, Frames 668 to 670.pdf
Auchincloss writes about the latest news in his and Avery's families, and also mentions all the good things he has heard about the salt works on Avery Island. He invites Avery to send his ill daughter to New York to recuperate.

List of Avery Family Servants, Avery Family Papers, Records of the Antebellum Southern Plantations, Series J, Part 5, Reel 11, Frames 988-991.pdf
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…

List of Graves at Avery Island, Avery Family Papers, Records of the Antebellum Southern Plantations, Series J, Part 5, Reel 11, Frames 979-986.pdf
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…

Recollections of Aunt Maria Houston, Avery Family Papers, Records of the Antebellum Southern Plantations, Series J, Part 5, Reel 11, 947-948.pdf
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…

Daniel Dudley Avery Account Book, Avery Family Papers, Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations, Series J, Part 5, Reel 11, Frames 908-914.pdf
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.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…
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