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Shreveport, Louisiana, attorney, mayor, and commissioner of deeds. Alabama native. District attorney in Shreveport in 1860. Mayor of Shreveport from May 1864 to October 1864. Commissioner of Deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Louisiana in 1865.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Louisiana, Caddo Parish, Shreveport, p. 99.; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Louisiana, Caddo Parish, Shreveport, p. 55; "Shreveport's Mayors," The Times (Shreveport, La.), April 30, 1967, p. 1.

Citation

Wells, Samuel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198963 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
L. B. Grigsby to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-01-08

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