Severin Landry and family papers, 1838-1887 (bulk 1843-1882).

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Severin Landry and family papers, 1838-1887 (bulk 1843-1882).

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The collection includes personal letters (1838-1842) of Severin Landry from New Orleans and Assumption Parish to Zulme Fernandez in Paris, Missouri. Included are letters to Landry from his children and from Fernandez; and letters to Fernandez from her brother, Manuel. Business correspondence includes letters and receipts for sales of sugar and molasses from weighers and gaugers and commission merchants Henry Tete, E. M. Scott, F. J. Da Silva and Co., Charles Oger, and Englehardt and Block of New Orleans; and Merrick & Towne of Philadelphia. Financial papers include bills for goods and services (1848-1883); bills of lading for the steamers Lafourche, Trent, and H. J. Dickey (1865-1883); a permit granting Landry the right to use a new sugar refining process (1860); doctors' bills; and promissory notes. The collection includes a letter from George W. Jones of Magnolia Plantation regarding the visit of a slave to his wife on Jones' estate; a payroll record for payments to freedmen (1864-1865); court subpoenas (1859-1881); a permit to carry arms (1864); and plantation regulations and a circular issued by the Department of the Gulf concerning compensation and treatment of freedmen (1864-1869). A daybook (1846-1849) and a journal (1846-1865) kept by Dufossard Landry record sales of plantation produce.

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United States. Army. Department of the Gulf (1862-1865)

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During the Civil War, the U.S. Army created the Department of the Gulf and the Army of the Gulf following the capture of New Orleans, Louisiana, by Admiral David G. Farragut in 1862. Major General Benjamin F. Butler took command of the Union occupation forces as well as the Department of the Gulf. The soldiers in the new department were then designated as the Army of the Gulf. Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks succeeded Butler on December 17, 1862. Under Banks, the army fought its first ...

Scott, E. M. (Evelyn M.)

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Englehardt and Block.

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Landry, Dufossard.

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Fernandez, Zulme.

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Landry, Severin.

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Severin Landry was a sugar planter of Assumption Parish, Louisiana. From the description of Severin Landry and family papers, 1838-1887 (bulk 1843-1882). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86142712 ...

Oger, Charles.

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Tete, Henry.

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