Item description: “List of Negroes working on the fortifications at Fort Pemberton,” dated 6 May 1863. Fort Pemberton was a Confederate fortification constructed on a narrow strip of land between the Tallahatchie and Yazoo Rivers, near Greenwood, Mississippi.
Item citation: From the John G. Devereux Papers #2149, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.