Captain Hugh Black papers 1840-1913.

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Captain Hugh Black papers 1840-1913.

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The papers include letters and one diary written during the Civil War (1863-1864) by Black to his wife, Mary Ann Black, from various places in Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia and contain descriptions of army life and of the battle fields. There is also a series of letters and accounts (1901-1913) between Black and a Tallahassee merchant, Julius Diamond, two land deeds (1857-1858) relating to land of the Forbes' Purchases, and a letter to Black from J.B. Whitfield, Treasurer of the State of Florida and later a Supreme Court Justice.

95 items (0.25 linear feet)

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Black, Mary Ann, 19th cent.

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Whitfield, James B. (James Bryan), 1860-1948

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Originally of Wayne County, North Carolina, James B. Whitfield came to Florida as a boy, when his father started a cotton plantation in Leon County. He was educated at the West Florida Seminary in Tallahassee and at the University of Virginia, where he received the bachelor of law in 1886. Returning to Leon County, Whitfield practiced law until his election in 1888 as county judge. Beginning in 1889, he was clerk of the Florida Supreme Court for eight years. He was appointed State Treasurer in 1...

Diamond, Julius.

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Black, Hugh, 1835-1915

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Hugh Black was born in 1835 in Gadsden County, Florida. He served with Florida troops during Indian uprisings in 1855-56 and in the Civil War from 1861-1865. He was wounded in the Battle of Chickamauga. In 1864 he became County Tax Assessor of Liberty County, Florida and continued in this capacity for two years until moving to Leon County. He was elected Clerk of the Legislature in 1868 and also served several years as a Leon County Commissioner. He died in 1915 in Talla...