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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.

This account sheet shows that Richard L. Pugh, a Louisiana refugee, had purchased merchandise from the Chapell Hill Iron Works in Texas in 1865. He paid the company with salt, but still owed $500 for previous purchases.

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,…

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…

Writing from Gentry, Eaton (an overseer) reports that two of Weeks's brother's slaves, Antana and Ogust, have runaway. The rest of the family is doing well and "there is not so many sick Negroes as when you left." He sent the letter to Beaumont and…

James A. Baker writes to the penitentiary board on behalf of H. E. Perkins, who is seeking reimbursement for expenses incurred in the transportation of "five negroes" taken to the penitentiary and "under the law as now amended will remain there until…

Moore writes Allie from Mansfield about a letter he received from William F. Weeks dated St. Mary, Louisiana, July 20, 1863, stating that he had received his letter of the 7th written from Starrville (also mentioned in a letter he wrote to J.A.…

Moore has received a letter from William F. Weeks about prospects in Houston, which have confirmed his decision not to move farther west or south unless the Mansfield area is invaded. He also discusses family business, including horses stolen by…

This list of property prepared for tax assessment purposes indicates that Moore still owned at least 40 enslaved people in 1864, some of whom were part of the estate of his deceased wife. Some of the enslaved people's names and ages are listed on the…