Powhatan Clarke diary, 1862-1863.

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Powhatan Clarke diary, 1862-1863.

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The diary records Dr. Powhatan Clarke's trip by wagon from Ulster Plantation to Camden, Arkansas, and his return trip to Louisiana, which took him through Rapides, Grant, Natchitoches, Bienville, Webster, and Claiborne Parishes. He traveled to Arkansas with Judge Henry Boyce to procure salt for Ulster Plantation. The entries record distances traveled each day, expenses incurred for repairs to the wagon and for food, conditions of roads, and names of people met along the way and mention the salt works at Lake Bisteneau. Entries describe exchange prisoners and discharged soldiers, and the rental of his wagon to the Confederate States Army Quartermaster at New Iberia, Louisiana, to haul lumber to build a road to Avery Island. The volume was later used by Colonel David F. Boyd and contains his military and topographical notes of the area between Sicily Island, Catahoula Parish, and Waterproof, Tensas Parish, during Boyd's service as Chief of Engineers on Major General Richard Taylor's staff (1863).

1 v. ; 15 x 10 cm.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Confederate States of America. Army. Corps of Engineers

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Clarke, Powhatan.

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Powhatan Clarke, a native of Virginia and educated in Paris, was a surgeon and professor of chemistry at Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. He served as aide-de-camp for Brigadier General D. M. Frost. His father-in-law was Judge Henry Boyce of Ulster Plantation near Alexandria, in Rapides Parish. Colonel David French Boyd served as captain of engineers on General Richard Taylor's staff beginning in 1863. An educator, Boyd taught at Louisiana Sta...

Boyd, David French, 1834-1899

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David French Boyd (1834-1899) was an officer in the Confederate Army who for a time was a prisoner of war on a Union boat moored in Alexandria, La. After the war, Boyd was instrumental in the founding of Lousiana State University. From the guide to the David French Boyd Letter, ., 1864, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Boyd graduated from the University of Virginia in 1856, and later served in the Confederate Army. From ...