Commissioner's vouchers, 1862-1865.

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Commissioner's vouchers, 1862-1865.

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This series contains vouchers issued and received by State Salt Commissioners Abner G. McGehee and Benjamin M. Woolsey from 1862 to 1865. The vouchers document a variety of expenditures incurred during the construction of the State Salt Works in Clarke County; the payment of wages to overseers, blacksmiths, brickmasons, engineers, wagonmasters, and clerks; the purchase of foodstuffs, livestock, and fodder; the monthly hire of slaves, mules and wagons; and freight charges for transporting salt and provisions by riverboat, railroad, and wagon. A significant number of vouchers are for the hire of slaves to work at the Salt Works. The vouchers include the name of the slaveholder and often the names of the slaves hired. Some slaveholders mentioned are Mrs. William Lowndes Yancey, Capt. Thomas Brown, Mrs. Mary Peacock, Mrs. Mary Harwell, T.G. Forster, T.B. Bethea, and M.W. Garrison. A large number of vouchers are for persons who sold cast iron to the Salt Works, among them are James R. Powell, C.B. Boutwell, J. Hobbie, C.L. Lucas, R.C. Bolling, Joseph A. Green, and J.M. Harbin. Included are a large number of vouchers for freight and passage on riverboats such as the Clipper, the Demopolis, the Virginia, the Senator, the Coquette, the Flirt, the Alice Vivian, the Jeff Davis, and the Robert E. Lee. Also included are railroad invoices from the Alabama and Florida, the Mobile and Great Northern, and the Montgomery and West Point Railroads. Also included are invoices from the Battle House and the LaFayette House, hotels where the Commissioners frequently stayed during trips to Mobile.

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Woolsey, Benjamin M. 1823-1886.

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Harwell, Mary.

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Robert E. Lee (Ship).

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McGehee, Abner.

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Hobbie, J.

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Montgomery and West Point Railroad Company.

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Peacock, Mary.

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Forster, T.G.

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Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872

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Civil War governor of Ala. From the description of Papers, 1860-1861. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38247275 Governor of Alabama and jurist. From the description of John Gill Shorter correspondence, 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980457 ...

Jeff Davis (Ship).

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Boutwell, C.B.

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Mobile and Great Northern Railroad Company

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Yancey, William Lowndes, Mrs.

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Alabama. Salt Commissioner.

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Lucas, C. L. (Corydon L.), 1838-

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Bolling, R.C.

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Powell, James R. 1814-1883.

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McGehee, Abner G.

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Garrison, M.W.

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Brown, Thomas

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LaFayette House (Hotel : Mobile, Ala.).

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Battle House (Hotel : Mobile, Ala.).

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Watts, T. H. 1819-1892.

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Coquette (Ship)

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Virginia (Ship)

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