E.P. Ellis and family papers, 1812-1914 (bulk 1839-1866).

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E.P. Ellis and family papers, 1812-1914 (bulk 1839-1866).

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Bound typewritten copies of letters, 1812, 1831-1914, comprise the bulk of the collection. Letters of E.P. Ellis are addressed to his wife during travel to various court houses in the Florida Parishes. Letters of the 1850s are chiefly by E. John and Thomas C.W. Ellis and are addressed from Centenary College, Jackson Louisiana, and the Law School of the University of Louisiana at New Orleans. The bulk of the correspondence consists of Civil War letters from E. John Ellis while he was Captain of the 16th Louisiana Infantry, serving in Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Several were written from Johnson Island Prison, Sandusky, Ohio. A few letters from Stephen D. Ellis, also in the 16th Louisiana Infantry, are included. Post-war letters are mainly written by Thomas C.W. Ellis. The collection contains typescripts of a few slave bills of sale, invitations, certificates, newspaper clippings, and memoranda. Printed volumes include catalogs of Centenary College (1855, n.d.), a sermon, and items about the Louisiana Supreme Court and the dedication of a portrait of E. John Ellis.

180 items.4 pr. v. ; 22 cm. or smaller.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6770931

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Ellis, Stephen Dudley.

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Ellis, Thomas C. W. (Thomas Cargill Warner)

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Centenary-College of Louisiana

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Centenary College of Louisiana was an undergraduate college in Jackson, Louisiana. It was formed in the 1840s from a merger of the College of Louisiana in Jackson (established 1825) and Centenary College. Judge Edward McGehee (1786-1880), a planter and businessman of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, was instrumental in the founding of the college. In Woodville, Mississippi, he founded the Woodville Female Academy. From the description of Centenary College of Louisiana contract, 1845. (...

Ellis, Ezekiel Park, 1807-1884.

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Ezekiel P. Ellis of Amite, Louisiana was a judge and a member of the Louisiana legislature. He was married to Tabitha Emily Warner, daughter of Louisiana judge Thomas Cargill Warner. His sons, all lawyers, were Thomas C.W. Ellis, Ezekiel John Ellis, and Stephen Dudley Ellis. They attended Centenary College in Jackson, Louisiana and served in the Confederate Army. From the description of E.P. Ellis and family papers, 1812-1914 (bulk 1839-1866). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat r...

Ellis, E. John (Ezekiel John), 1840-1889

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E. John Ellis served as a captain in the 16th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, Army of Tennessee. He was captured at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tenn. and imprisoned at Johnson Island Prison, Lake Erie, Ohio, from 1863 to 1865. Martina Hamilton Ellis Buck (1898-1996), great granddaughter of Ezekiel Park Ellis, John's father, was a teacher in Tangipahoa Parish, La. and a history professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, La. From the description of E. John Ellis diary, 1...

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...