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CC Weeks to Mary Weeks, July 4, 1864, Weeks Family Papers, Reel 18, Frames 499-501.pdf
In this dyspeptic letter, Charlie complains about having to support "my negroes in idleness" and also about the fact that "the vile animals runaway," including two whom he later caught and had "pickled."

Circular Restricting Penitentary Cloth Sales.pdf
A circular from W. H. Haynes, chief of the Trans-Mississippi Clothing Department, orders that officers must receive approval before buying cloth from the Texas Penitentiary.

J. K. Kelton to Pendleton Murrah, November 18, 1863, TSLAC, 301-44, Folder 7.pdf
Members of the Bosque County court complain to the governor about rising prices for foodstuffs caused by the rates that a local quartermaster is willing to pay to haul corn from 40 or 50 miles away. The court suspects that the quartermaster is…

37BA77CD-3B57-475E-8D17-1CEDDFD8089C.pdf
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.

Detail Exemption for John M Avery, Avery Family Papers, Records of the Antebellum Southern Plantations, Series J, Part 5, Reel 11, Frame 573 .pdf
John M. Avery, son of Daniel D. Avery, was exempted from military service on September 10, 1862, because he was "superintendent of the salt mines" in St. Mary Parish.

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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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