Civil war; United States; Slavery; African-Americans; Sykes, James William, 1810-1885
Letter, commissary officer Major E. W. Halliday in Canton, Mississippi, to James Sykes, sending home Sykes' slave, Addison, who ''has become dissatisfied and is anxious to return home.'' Addison's wages for two months and two days were $41.33. ...
Confederate States of America; Confederate States of America. Treasury Dept.; Cotton trade; Choctaw County (Miss.)
Receipt for eight bales of cotton exchanged in Choctaw County, Mississippi, by R. Grantham for bonds from the Confederacy. The cotton was to be delivered to Vaiden. Signed by Willis Barfield. 1863.