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Sandoz, Joel H., fl. 1840-1864 Opelousas courier. [Vol. 12, no. 43 (March 25, 1865)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.15.07 Author/Creator: Sandoz, Joel H., fl. 1840-1864 Place Written: Opelousas, Louisiana Type: Newspaper Date: 25 March 1865 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 42.8 cm, Width: 30.7 cm Order a Copy

The front page is in French and the back page is in English. General Order by General E. Kirby Smith, Notice to Confederate Tax Payers, Schedule of Prices for Confederate Army Quartermaster on Food and Livestock the Requisition from Local Citizens. A poem memorializes the death of Marcellus Gregory Doyle, a local eight-year-old boy. Notices announce the upcoming elections of a district judge, a board of police, and a constable. Opelousas was under Federal occupation at the time.

Smith, Edmund Kirby, 1824-1893

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