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JAMES CALVERT WISE PAPERS Mss JAMES CALVERT WISE PAPERS Mss. 3239 Inventory Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library Louisiana State University Libraries Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Reformatted 2020 Revised 2021 by Nick Skaggs WISE (JAMES CALVERT) PAPERS Mss. 3239 1860-1917 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CONTENTS OF INVENTORY SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................ 3 BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE .......................................................................... 4 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE ....................................................................................... 4 LIST OF SERIES ................................................................................................................ 6 SERIES DESCRIPTIONS .................................................................................................. 7 INDEX TERMS ................................................................................................................ 19 CONTAINER LIST .......................................................................................................... 20 Use of manuscript materials. If you wish to examine items in the manuscript group, please place a request via the Special Collections Request System. Consult the Container List for location information. Photocopying. Should you wish to request photocopies, please consult a staff member. Do not remove items to be photocopied. The existing order and arrangement of unbound materials must be maintained. Reproductions must be made from surrogates (microfilm, digital scan, photocopy of original held by LSU Libraries), when available. Publication. Readers assume full responsibility for compliance with laws regarding copyright, literary property rights, and libel. Proper acknowledgement of LLMVC materials must be made in any resulting writing or publications. The correct form of citation for this manuscript group is given on the summary page. Copies of scholarly publications based on research in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections are welcomed. Page 2 of 20 WISE (JAMES CALVERT) PAPERS Mss. 3239 1860-1917 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SUMMARY Size 1.75 linear ft. and 2 manuscript volumes Geographic Locations Texas; Virginia; Caddo Parish, Louisiana; Minden, Louisiana; Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana; Rapides Parish, Louisiana; Alexandria, Louisiana; Shreveport, Louisiana Inclusive Dates 1860-1917 Languages English Summary This collection contains James Calvert Wise’s personal, political, business, and military papers. Access Restrictions Access to original Confederate currency is restricted. Use photocopies instead. Copyright For those materials not in the public domain, copyright is retained by the descendants of the creators in accordance with U.S. Copyright law. Citation James Calvert Wise Papers, Mss. 3239, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries Special Collections, Baton Rouge, La. Stack Location(s) K:37, OS:W, UU:154-155, VAULT:1 Page 3 of 20 WISE (JAMES CALVERT) PAPERS Mss. 3239 1860-1917 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE A native of Maryland, James Calvert Wise (1823-1904) settled in Rapides Parish, Louisiana in 1841. He served as sheriff and tax collector of Rapides Parish from 1849 to 1860, and he represented Rapides Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives. During the Civil War, Wise organized the Red River Rebels, which became part of the 1st Louisiana Infantry Regiment of Volunteers, participating in the Battle of Seven Pines and the Seven Days Battle. He operated in the Confederate Army as a captain and an assistant quartermaster in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1863. Wise then was a colonel and a quartermaster general in Shreveport, Louisiana from 1864 to 1865. After the Civil War, Wise returned to Rapides Parish, where he was active in reorganizing the Democratic Party, serving on the Rapides Parish Democratic Executive Committee. He served on the state legislature from 1878 to 1884. During this time and after, Wise owned and operated the cotton and sugar plantation named Grand Bend Plantation on the Red River, south of Alexandria. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE This collection contains James Calvert Wise’s personal, political, business, and military papers. His personal and business papers include correspondence with and receipts for goods from various Louisiana merchants, including George A. Pike in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and A. Miltenberger in New Orleans, Louisiana. Military papers include letters to Wise from men in his unit requesting furloughs. Reports, orders, correspondence with other Louisiana quartermasters, receipts, and abstracts for provisions are also present. They reflect the administration of Wise’s offices, including the procurement, availability, price, and transportation of supplies (including corn, sugar, and other agricultural products); the state’s efforts to oversee civilian food supplies; and the employment of civilians by the Confederate government in Alexandria and Shreveport. Correspondents include Governor Henry Watkins Allen of Louisiana, George Mason Graham, Thomas C. Manning, Governor Thomas O. Moore of Louisiana, Lewis Texada, Governor James Madison Wells of Louisiana, and other civilians and military figures. Wise continued to receive letters from many of these correspondents after the Civil War, especially Allen and Moore. They discuss news in Rapides Parish, running their plantations in Texas, Reconstruction era policies, opinions about African American laborers and the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Texas and Louisiana politics. Additional postbellum materials primarily relate to Wise’s political activities. Page 4 of 20 WISE (JAMES CALVERT) PAPERS Mss. 3239 1860-1917 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Printed items include Confederate tax forms, Confederate and Louisiana currency, a notice to planters and freedmen issued by the U.S. Army, Republican Party and Democratic Party publications and political materials, and business cards. Muster rolls for the following military units are also present: 1st Louisiana Infantry Regiment of Volunteers; 1st Battalion, Volunteer Cavalry (Bossier Rangers); and 3rd Cavalry Battalion of the Louisiana State Guard. Page 5 of 20 WISE (JAMES CALVERT) PAPERS Mss. 3239 1860-1917 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIST OF SERIES Series I. Personal Papers and Military Correspondence, 1860-1917, undated Series II. Military Records, 1861-1865, undated Page 6 of 20 WISE (JAMES CALVERT) PAPERS Mss. 3239 1860-1917 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SERIES DESCRIPTIONS Series I. Personal Papers and Military Correspondence, 1860-1917, undated Series consists chiefly of personal, business, and military correspondence, including general and special orders, received and sent by James C. Wise. In addition to correspondence, series also includes some political materials, printed items, and Confederate currency. While the following descriptions are not exhaustive, they do describe most items of interest in the series: Papers: Correspondence, 1860-1862 Receipts, account statements, and business letters from George A. Pike (Baton Rouge); A. Miltenberger (New Orleans); Carroll, Hoyt & Co. (New Orleans) to James C. Wise, 1860-1861. Letter from John H. Dawson to James C. Wise asking for an extension of Dawson’s furlough, September 6, 1861. Letter from General George Mason Graham to Capt. James C. Wise of the Red River Rebels at Pigs Point, near Norfolk, Virginia, requesting that John Dawson should not be permitted to return home, September 8, 1861. Letter from D. L. Haworth to James C. Wise, Camp Vincent, asking for assistance in getting to camp drills and money, October 1861. Letter from D. L. Haworth in Bayou Rapides, to Capt. James C. Wise thanking him for granting Haworth furlough but asking that a substitute be accepted instead so that Haworth can be discharged, December 4, 1861. Unsigned letter to Col. W. G. Vincent of the 1st Louisiana Regiment of Volunteers, at Camp Vincent near Norfolk, Virginia, requesting permission to join several companies in their return to New Orleans, before the expiration of the writer’s own regiment’s enlistment term in August, April 2, 1862. Confederate States of America loan, no. 441, sign by W. N. Teller, registered on October 20, 1862 (stored in oversize box). Papers: Correspondence, 1863 Bond ($20,000) of James C. Wise, principal, with Lewis Texada and James R. Andrews, sureties, bound unto Governor Thomas O. Moore and the State of Louisiana, Rapides Parish (bond was cancelled by Governor Henry W. Allen on March 31, 1864), February 3, 1863. Letter from Governor Thomas O. Moore, Alexandria, to James C. Wise regarding prices for molasses and sugar and the exchange value of sugar and bacon, February 24, 1863. Page 7 of 20 WISE (JAMES CALVERT) PAPERS Mss. 3239 1860-1917 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Articles of agreement between James C. Wise and Philibert Rogay, Avoyelles Parish, regarding the delivery of sole leather, April 10, 1863. Articles of agreement between James C. Wise, assistant quartermaster, and Thomas Swafford, Rapides Parish, for the production and delivery of shoes, April 13, 1863. Special order (No. 12) from C. H. Ardis, Alexandria, instructing Capt. James C. Wise to turn over supplies to Major Charles Chaffe, April 23, 1863. Letter from C. H. Ardis regarding Major Littell taking charge of a train, April 23, 1863. Orders from Quartermaster General C.
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