A.W. Roberts family papers, 1837-1916 (bulk 1866-1878).

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A.W. Roberts family papers, 1837-1916 (bulk 1866-1878).

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The collection contains legal papers, receipts, a license to practice law signed by the Louisiana Bar Association (1857), papers concerning court cases, and personal and business correspondence of Abishai W. Roberts. Letters from Roberts during the Civil War include one written from Johnson Island Prison (1864). Many post Civil War letters were written to and from Lucy Roberts (née Smith) and concern personal matters. Papers dating before 1860 are principally those of John S. Woodward and Aurelia Woodward and include receipts, deeds, and mortgages, some showing the Woodwards' ownership of the San Socie Hotel in Pass Christian, Mississippi. A few letters of Lucy and Josephine Smith were written from boarding schools in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and New Orleans.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6764100

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Woodward, John S.

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Roberts, A. W. (Abishai W.)

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Abishai W. Roberts was an attorney of Lake Providence, Louisiana. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and was a prisoner of war at Johnson Island Prison, Sandusky Bay, Ohio. Roberts was married to Lucy Smith, daughter of Aurelia Woodward and step-daughter of John S. Woodward. Lucy and her sister, Josephine, were educated at a school in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. From the description of A.W. Roberts family papers, 1837-1916 (bulk 1866-1878). (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

Woodward, Aurelia.

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Johnson Island Prison

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Johnson Island, located in Sandusky, Ohio, operated as a federal prisoner of war depot, housing Confederate officers and other enlisted men captured in battle, from April 1862 to September 1865. From the guide to the Johnson Island Prison Autograph Albums, ., 1861-1865, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Union army prison in Ohio. From the description of Diagram, 1862. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat...