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title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-12-18, 1861-12-18
Abstract: The State of Mississippi issued print voucher forms to authorize payment for goods and services rendered by individual citizens to the Army of Mississippi. Each voucher gave a handwritten itemized statement of the individual's account and was signed by the Assistant Quartermaster General. The citizen acknowledged receipt of payment by also signing the form. A few of the vouchers in this group are entirely in manuscript. The vouchers are interfiled in chronological order with the other papers of the National Period. The following is an inventory of the documents: $47 to R. Coffman, Grenada, Mississippi, for hauling done for individual officers. /s/ R.W.T. Daniel.

title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals employed by the Army of Mississippi,
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-9-26, 1861-9-26
Abstract: These vouchers were issued on a printed form identical to the one used for remuneration of civilian goods and services. The forms were filled in with the necessary information concerning the position, the term of service, and pay rate. The Assistant Quartermaster General of the Army of Mississippi signed the voucher, and the individual also signed upon receipt of pay. The three vouchers are interfiled chronologically with the papers of the National period. $250 to C.S. Severson, Iuka, Mississippi, for two months of service as Assistant Quartermaster of the Army of Mississippi at Iuka. /s/ A.B. Dilworth.

title: State of Louisiana $5 bill
Subject: Paper money, Confederate States of America, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865
Date created ms: 1862
Abstract: Bill features a sword fight and a bird.

title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-12-14, 1861-12-14
Abstract: The State of Mississippi issued print voucher forms to authorize payment for goods and services rendered by individual citizens to the Army of Mississippi. Each voucher gave a handwritten itemized statement of the individual's account and was signed by the Assistant Quartermaster General. The citizen acknowledged receipt of payment by also signing the form. A few of the vouchers in this group are entirely in manuscript. The vouchers are interfiled in chronological order with the other papers of the National Period. The following is an inventory of the documents: $8.81 to G.P. Rice, Grenada, Mississippi, for 11 3/4 bushels of corn. /s/ R.W.T. Daniel.

title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-12-16, 1861-12-16
Abstract: The State of Mississippi issued print voucher forms to authorize payment for goods and services rendered by individual citizens to the Army of Mississippi. Each voucher gave a handwritten itemized statement of the individual's account and was signed by the Assistant Quartermaster General. The citizen acknowledged receipt of payment by also signing the form. A few of the vouchers in this group are entirely in manuscript. The vouchers are interfiled in chronological order with the other papers of the National Period. The following is an inventory of the documents: $27.50 to Charles D. Graham, Grenada, Mississippi, for eleven cords of wood purchased by individual soldiers. /s/ R.W.T. Daniel.

title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-9-24, 1861-9-24
Abstract: The State of Mississippi issued print voucher forms to authorize payment for goods and services rendered by individual citizens to the Army of Mississippi. Each voucher gave a handwritten itemized statement of the individual's account and was signed by the Assistant Quartermaster General. The citizen acknowledged receipt of payment by also signing the form. A few of the vouchers in this group are entirely in manuscript. The vouchers are interfiled in chronological order with the other papers of the National Period. The following is an inventory of the documents: $9.50 to James H. Doan, Iuka, Mississippi, for hauling nineteen loads of camp equipage and subsistence supplies for the 1st Brigade, Army of Mississippi /s/ A.B. Dilworth.

title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals,
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-9-25, 1861-9-25
Abstract: The State of Mississippi issued print voucher forms to authorize payment for goods and services rendered by individual citizens to the Army of Mississippi. Each voucher gave a handwritten itemized statement of the individual's account and was signed by the Assistant Quartermaster General. The citizen acknowledged receipt of payment by also signing the form. A few of the vouchers in this group are entirely in manuscript. The vouchers are interfiled in chronological order with the other papers of the National Period. The following is an inventory of the documents: $2 to R.D. Fielder, Iuka, Mississippi, for hauling four loads for the Confederate Guards Artillery. /s/ A.B. Dilworth.

title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-12-14, 1861-12-14
Abstract: The State of Mississippi issued print voucher forms to authorize payment for goods and services rendered by individual citizens to the Army of Mississippi. Each voucher gave a handwritten itemized statement of the individual's account and was signed by the Assistant Quartermaster General. The citizen acknowledged receipt of payment by also signing the form. A few of the vouchers in this group are entirely in manuscript. The vouchers are interfiled in chronological order with the other papers of the National Period. The following is an inventory of the documents: $157.50 to Charles D. Graham, [Grenada, Mississippi?], for sixty-three cords of wood purchased by individual soldiers. /s/ R.W.T. Daniel.

title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-9-26, 1861-9-26
Abstract: Documents signed. Signatures as indicated below. Various sizes. In English. The State of Mississippi issued print voucher forms to authorize payment for goods and services rendered by individual citizens to the Army of Mississippi. Each voucher gave a handwritten itemized statement of the individual's account and was signed by the Assistant Quartermaster General. The citizen acknowledged receipt of payment by also signing the form. A few of the vouchers in this group are entirely in manuscript. The vouchers are interfiled in chronological order with the other papers of the National Period. The following is an inventory of the documents: $6.50 to C.S. Severson, Iuka, Mississippi, for office supplies, telegraphing services, and hauling.

title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals employed by the Army of Mississippi
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-9-26, 1861-9-26
Abstract: These vouchers were issued on a printed form identical to the one used for remuneration of civilian goods and services. The forms were filled in with the necessary information concerning the position, the term of service, and pay rate. The Assistant Quartermaster General of the Army of Mississippi signed the voucher, and the individual also signed upon receipt of pay. The three vouchers are interfiled chronologically with the papers of the National period. $93.33 to R.B. Williams, Iuka, Mississippi, for one month and twenty-six days of service as an issuing clerk at Iuka. /s/ A.B. Dilworth.

title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals employed by the Army of Mississippi
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-12-7, 1861-12-7
Abstract: These vouchers were issued on a printed form identical to the one used for remuneration of civilian goods and services. The forms were filled in with the necessary information concerning the position, the term of service, and pay rate. The Assistant Quartermaster General of the Army of Mississippi signed the voucher, and the individual also signed upon receipt of pay. The three vouchers are interfiled chronologically with the papers of the National period. $45 to William B. Brown, Jackson, Mississippi, for a half month of service as clerk in the Quartermaster General's Department. /s/ Madison McAfee.

title: Oath of allegiance of W[illiam] Henry Martin, Algiers, Louisiana
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1862, 1862
Abstract: The Sixth Justice's Court in Algiers issued this printed form, which Martin signed, thereby swearing his allegiance to the United States.

title: Special Orders Number 136 issued by John Withers, Assistant Adjutant General, Richmond, to Corporal Martin, 7th Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, no place
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-8-28, 1861-8-28
Abstract: Corporal Martin of the Continental Guards was discharged from service of the Confederate States.

title: Register of free colored persons entitled to remain in the state. Volume 3, 1859-1861.
Subject: Free African Americans, Louisiana, New Orleans. African American women, Louisiana, New Orleans, African American men, Louisiana, New Orleans, Slaves, Emancipation, Louisiana, New Orleans, Slaveholders, Louisiana, New Orleans, New Orleans (La.). Office of the Mayor, Legal documents
Date created ms: 1859, 1861
Abstract: The third volume of the Register of Free Colored Persons Entitled to Remain in the State was produced by the New Orleans Mayor's Office between 1859 and 1861. Free people of color who were not born in the City of New Orleans, or who were born in the Parish of Orleans and were emancipated after birth, were required to register with the Mayor's Office as free people of color.

The register as a whole is comprised of four volumes created between the years 1840-1864. The roster lists the individual's name, sex, color, age, occupation, place of birth (parish or county, state, country), date of arrival (this section is blank in the majority of entries), additional remarks, and the date that the information was recorded. Information found in the remarks column identifies either the name of the emancipator or the name of the person who verified a free person of color's free status by witnessing or notarizing the act of emancipation. Volume 3 is in English.

The roster is arranged in chronological groups for the years 1859-1861. The names are recorded alphabetically by the first letter of the last name, or as in some cases, the first letter of the only given name. A list of names appearing in the register is available online at www.lecomite.org/indexes/FPOCIndex.txt. Note that this list is an index to a transcription of the register, published by Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane. The page numbers given in the index refer to the published transcription and not to the manuscript register.

title: Register of free colored persons entitled to remain in the state. Volume 4, 1861-1864.
Subject: Free African Americans, Louisiana, New Orleans. African American women, Louisiana, New Orleans, African American men, Louisiana, New Orleans, Slaves, Emancipation, Louisiana, New Orleans, Slaveholders, Louisiana, New Orleans, New Orleans (La.). Office of the Mayor, Legal documents
Date created ms: 1861, 1864
Abstract: The fourth volume of the Register of Free Colored Persons Entitled to Remain in the State was produced by the New Orleans Mayor's Office between 1861-1864. Free people of color who were not born in the City of New Orleans, or who were born in the Parish of Orleans and were emancipated after birth, were required to register with the Mayor's Office as free people of color.

The register as a whole is comprised of four volumes created between the years 1840-1864. The roster lists the individual's name, sex, color, age, occupation, place of birth (parish or county, state, country), date of arrival (this section is blank in the majority of entries), additional remarks, and the date that the information was recorded. Information found in the remarks column identifies either the name of the emancipator or the name of the person who verified a free person of color's free status by witnessing or notarizing the act of emancipation.

The roster is arranged in chronological groups for the years 1861-1864. Only a few entries were recorded in 1864. Names are recorded alphabetically by the first letter of the last name, or as in some cases, the first letter of the only listed name. Volume 4 is in English.

A list of names appearing in the register is available online at www.lecomite.org/indexes/FPOCIndex.txt. Note that this list is an index to a transcription of the register, published by Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane. The page numbers given in the index refer to the published transcription and not to the manuscript register.

title: Certificate issued by Louis St. Martin, Register of Names and Residence of Electors, New Orleans, to Anatole L.H. Kernion
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1861-3-22, 1861-3-22
Abstract: The Register certified that Kernion, who resided at 225 Esplanade, had been registered as a qualified elector as a native-born citizen of the Confederate States. On this printed form with pertinent information filled in, the word "United" in the phrase "citizen of the United States" was crossed out and "Confederate" was substituted.

title: Petition submitted by the Panola Guards, New Orleans, to the Militia of Louisiana
Subject: Documents, Petitions
Date created ms: 1861-10, 1861-10
Abstract: The forty-five members of the Panola Guards, whose names appeared on the document, requested the presence of a state officer at their next meeting so that he might certify the commissioned officers they had elected.

title: Louisiana State Capitol carte de visite
Subject: Old State Capitol (Baton Rouge, La.), Photographs, McPherson, William D. (photographer), Baton Rouge (La.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Photographs
Date created ms: 1862
Abstract: The camera stands on River Road looking up toward the west face of the Louisiana State Capitol. The Federal national flag flies from the left turret and Federal troops may be seen around the entrance to the building.

title: Pay order vouchers issued by the State of Mississippi to various individuals
Subject: Bank notes, Documents, Money
Date created ms: 1862-1, 1862-1
Abstract: The State of Mississippi issued print voucher forms to authorize payment for goods and services rendered by individual citizens to the Army of Mississippi. Each voucher gave a handwritten itemized statement of the individual's account and was signed by the Assistant Quartermaster General. The citizen acknowledged receipt of payment by also signing the form. A few of the vouchers in this group are entirely in manuscript. The vouchers are interfiled in chronological order with the other papers of the National Period. The following is an inventory of the documents: $2.75 to W.W. Teague, Grenada, Mississippi, for seven empty barrels. /s/ R.W.T. Daniel.

title: Certificate of allegiance of Mrs. M.J. Martin [Algiers, Louisiana]
Subject: Documents
Date created ms: 1862, 1862
Abstract: The document certified that Mrs. Martin had subscribed to the Oath of Allegiance as required by General Orders Number 41.

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