Easter Cluff was an enslaved woman sold by Samuel Clough in the mid-1850s. This letter, written in 1866 by her last owner before emancipation is addressed from Macon, Georgia, in the hopes of learning from anyone in Louisa County about Easter's…
National Archives and Records Administration, M1913, Roll 103, Frame 669
Arrangement is recommended, when it can be effected, between private parties. Already many farmers have rented lands to freedmen and refugees. This course is a recognition…
National Archives and Records Administration, M1913, Roll 103, Frame 707
May be of service in carrying out the designs of the government, in regard to Refugees and Freedmen, and report to this office in order that requisition may be made for the…
National Archives and Records Administration, M1913, Roll 103, Frame 822
Louisa C.H., Va.
February 12th, 1866
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Jas. Ashworth
Capt. & Asst. Supt.
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Asks instructions for finding our orphan…
Louisa C.H. Nov. 12th 1868
Maj: M.S. Hopkins
Dear Sir
Your faver by Edmund rec’d. The judgement he complains of was obtained against him and one John Oliver last April Cir. Court. Process regularly served upon him…
National Archives and Records Administration, M1913, Roll 104, Frame 457
This article of agreement entered into this 1st day of January 1867 between L.T.D. Falkner and Caster Patrick of the County of Va
Witnesseth
That – the said Falkner agrees…