25 March 1865
Sandoz, Joel H. and Spencer, William H.
Newspaper
Title: Opelousas courier. [Vol. 12, no. 43 (March 25, 1865)]
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.
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