Charles A. Brusle papers, 1854-1905.

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Brusle, Charles A. Charles A. Brusle papers, 1854-1905.

Charles A. Brusle papers, 1854-1905.

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Personal papers, diary, record book, and miscellaneous newspaper clippings from a scrapbook belonging to Charles A. Brusle. Antebellum papers, 1854-1860, include recommendations for Brusle's matriculation in the University of Virginia and a letter from Pierre Soule introducing Representative Sidney Lewis. Civil War papers concern Brusle's commission as a captain, his appointment as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Louis Hebert, and his capture and parole as a prisoner of war. Post-war materials include a broadside issued during Brusle's campaign for state senator; letters from Louisiana Governor Samuel D. McEnery; a petition requesting Brusle run for mayor of Plaquemine; and a letter from the National Reconstruction Party addressing early Reconstruction problems in rural parishes and registration of whites in New Orleans. The diary (1861) contains an account of Brusle's trip to the Creek Nation to muster a regiment of Creeks into Confederate military service. Brusle describes the people (e.g., Tom Starr, Moses Riddle, Napoleon Moore, and Mr. Krebbs) and the landscape from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to the Creek Agency. The record book consists of accounts with Rosa Brusle (1864), expenses of Monticello Plantation (1865), and Brusle's personal observations of the Confederate government in early 1864.

29 items.3 v.

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