William H. Ellis papers, 1839-1900.

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William H. Ellis papers, 1839-1900.

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Letters, financial, personal and political papers, and military documents reflect Ellis' activities in business in New Orleans and as a soldier in the Washington Artillery. Financial papers include slave bills of sale, bank drafts and notes, documents of land ownership including the sale of land in Saint Helena Parish, promissory notes, and receipts for court costs, furnishings, interest payments, wages, and statements of account. Military items include orders, passes, prisoner parole forms, and receipts of pay and clothing (1864-1865). Political papers include speeches (1856, 1857), an amnesty oath (1865), and a voter's registration certificate (1876). A few letters cover personal and business matters including cotton sales with the Keplinger Pickery Company, Montgomery, Alabama, and T. Walley and Company of Liverpool, England (1882, 1885). Personal items include membership certificates in church societies, manuscript copies of poems, a railroad ticket, and calling cards. Three diaries (1860-1865) include entries describing office work and social life in New Orleans (1860), Camp Victory and Camp Hollins near the battleground of Bull Run (Jan. 1862), the camp mess and cooking in camps (1862), the Battle of Chicahominy near Richmond, Virginia (1862), Ellis' capture and parole at Athens, Georgia (May-Aug., 1865), and the death of Lincoln. The diaries contain some addresses and cash entries recording pay and expenses. A memorandum book (1863-1864) contains poems and entries concerning military duties. A diary for 1869 contains notes on weather, business, and personal affairs. Printed items include newspaper clippings and fragments (1860-1894), 3 religious pamphlets, a copy of the New Testament, and a directory of members of the Felicity Street Methodist Episcopal Church South.

202 items.9 v. (5 ms. v., 4 pr. v.)

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Ellis, William H., 1839-1892.

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William H. Ellis, a postal worker in New Orleans, Louisiana, was a soldier in the New Orleans Washington Artillery unit of the Army of Northern Virginia and was active in Confederate veterans affairs after the war. He conducted business in New Orleans and had interests in the cotton market in the 1880s. Ellis had family in Arcola, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana including a son, Rowland B. Ellis (b. 1875); his brother-in-law, E.F. Keplinger, was a cotton buyer in Montgomery, Alabama. Fr...

Felicity Street Methodist Episcopal Church South.

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