Marshall-Furman family papers, 1794-1975 (bulk 1833-1905).

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Marshall-Furman family papers, 1794-1975 (bulk 1833-1905).

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Correspondence includes letters from Gov. Henry Watkins Allen, Alfred Mouton, Maxcy Gregg and members of the Gregg, Marshall, Furman, Taylor, McIver, and Chandler families. Topics include politics, economics, agriculture, and the Civil War. Principal correspondents are Adam Marshall, Thomas Taylor, John J. Marshall, Mary Marshall, Maria Harriet Marshall, and the children of Maria and Henry Marshall. Civil War letters detail Marshall's involvement in the Montgomery Convention and later, the Congress. Letters written from Confederate army camps by Henry's sons William M. and Henry A. Marshall of the 2nd La. Infantry Reg., and by Greene Callier Chandler and his relatives Augustine T. (Gus) and William H. (Billy) Croft of the 8th Miss. Infantry Reg. Financial papers include slave bills of sale (1794-1807) of Adam Marshall, receipts, invoices, and cotton factors' statements related to Henry Marshall's Land End Plantation (1840s-1850s), and papers of the Marshall and Furman family descendants. Legal documents include land warrants, labor contracts, and rental agreements. Professional papers document the law practices of Greene C. Chandler and G. Chandler Furman and the medical practices of S.C. Furman and F.S. Furman. Political materials include addresses made by Henry Marshall (1833), Greene C. Chandler, Henry M. Furman (1897), and Mary T. Furman (1913). Included are election returns from the 1860 vote on secession in De Soto Parish, political ephemera, and voter registration papers. Personal papers include educational materials, prose, and poetry. Manuscript volumes include a muster roll (1864-65) of the 2nd La. Cavalry, a diary (1824) of Henry Marshall's walking trip from Philadelphia to S. Carolina, an account book, a memorandum book (1839-65) recording births and deaths of slaves on Lands End Plantation, and notebooks. Printed items include constitutions, acts, and resolutions of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States and proceedings of the Convention La. (1861), treatises on military tactics, pamphlets, and circulars. A map (n.d.) of the Battle of Bethel is included. Scrapbook materials were assembled by Sarah C. and Henry M. Furman and relate to the Furman family and to social and political history of Shreveport, Louisiana. Photographs depict Mary T. Furman, F.S. Furman, G. Chandler Furman, and William A. Marshall. Typescripts of some items in the collection and labels from an exhibit of Marshall-Furman family artifacts are included. The microfilm includes some items in the collection and many items which are not in the collection.

3,046 items.35 v.8 microfilm reels.

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Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888

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