The Confederate White House

 

The White House of the Confederacy

Located in Richmond, Virginia, the gray-stuccoed mansion built in1818 was home to a succession of wealthy families throughout the antebellum period.  This building has earned a unique stature in American history for its role as the Executive Mansion of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. The official residence of President Jefferson Davis, his wife Varina and their children, the house was the social, political and military center of the Confederacy. The home has been meticulously restored and is open for guided tours daily.     The Museum of the Confederacy

Created for the White issue of White issue of A Festival of Postcards.  

New Searchable Database: New Jersey Civil War Treasury Vouchers

New Jersey’s Civil War-period treasury vouchers collection includes 15,770 payment receipts for military expenditures and wartime purchases made by the State of New Jersey from 1861 through 1866. It includes soldiers' discharge certificates for final pay (over 9,300 items), affidavits of family members for pay due to deceased soldiers (over 1,400 items), and quarterly returns of the counties and cities listing the names of soldiers’ families and dependant mothers who received subsistence pay during their service. It is important to remember that your ancestor need not have lived in New Jersey to be in included in these records. Some individuals were credited for service to states in which they did not reside, plus individuals living on the borders of New Jersey in other states may have served for New Jersey.
In all, nearly 114,000 index entries provide access to the content of the documents.

This new database is searchable by any combination of first name, last name, regiment, county, and year.

https://wwwnet1.state.nj.us/DOS/Admin/ArchivesDBPortal/CivilWarVouchers.aspx

Results include Name, Rank, Reg. & Co. Description, Location, Date, & Citation - Ex: 

Bacon, Charles H. (Wife of)

3rd Reg. Co. F

Payment to County of Cumberland (Jonathan Elmer) / Subsistence : For Families of Volunteers.

Item Payment: $18.00. Voucher Total: $756.00

Cumberland County
27 Sep 1861
1861 : M : 487. Item No. 2

The processing and indexing of New Jersey’s Civil War vouchers was made possible by the New Jersey Civil War Heritage Association (NJCWHA) who supplied the volunteers to sort, flatten and folder nearly 16,000 documents; and, with the aid of a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, contracted for the creation of a database to index them.


New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management: www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/archives.html
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The Sea Captain's Wife

Are you a reader? Even if you are not an avid bookworm I believe any genealogist or family historian would truly enjoy this book. Looking at it just from a research perspective The Sea Captain's Wife is a wonderful compilation facts gathered, organized, and presented in a very readable book. The author, Martha Hodes, by utilizing a collection of letters, census records, current event articles of the period and specific localities, plus other historical documents, has created this very real life story of Eunice Connolly. A thoroughly enjoyable and interesting book that I highly recommend.

From the website http://seacaptainswife.com/ :
"Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice followed her first husband to the Deep South and soon found her relatives fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War. Back in New England, Eunice and her children struggled to get by -- until Eunice fell in love with a well-to-do black sea captain, married him, and moved to his home in the British Caribbean. Tracking every lead in the family letters, Hodes retraced Eunice’s footsteps and met descendants along the way. The Sea Captain’s Wife takes up grand themes of American history -- war, racism, freedom -- and illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past."