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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC04501.003 |
| From Archive Folder | Archive of Confederate general & family re: plantation and slaves |
| Title | Randall Lee Gibson to his father Tobias Gibson regarding the crops at Live Oaks and Greenwood plantations |
| Date | 16 September 1858 |
| Author | Gibson, Randall Lee (1832-1892) |
| Recipient | Gibson, Tobias |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Discussing the impact of the weather on crops at Live Oaks and Greenwood plantations, an order for "gas fixtures," and the incidence of fever in the vicinities. Tobias Gibson's family owned three plantations in Louisiana. In part: "The health of the neighborhood is not at all good - the type of Fever, however, is mild & yields readily to treatment. Nearly everybody has been sick...The sooner you come the better - but you will observe that the Yellow Fever only assumes a more malignant type & may yet spread. It was after this that it was fatal in Thibodeaux." |
| Subjects | Home Furnishings Science and Technology Confederate General or Leader Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Health and Medical Yellow Fever Epidemic Death Slavery |
| People | Gibson, Randall L. (1832-1892) Gibson, Tobias (fl. 1842-1865) |
| Place written | Lackland Lafourche, Louisiana |
| Theme | Science, Technology, Invention; Agriculture; Health & Medicine; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Additional Information | Randall Lee Gibson was a plantation owner, lawyer, Confederate general, U.S. Congressman and Senator, and a founder of Tulane University. Gibson was educated by a private tutor at ‘Live Oak,’ his father’s plantation in Terrebonne Parish, La.; graduated from Yale College in 1853 and from the law department of the University of Louisiana (later Tulane University), New Orleans, La., in 1855. He engaged in planting until the outbreak of the Civil War. Randall’s father, Tobias Gibson owned four estates: Greenwood, Magnolia, Hollywood, and Live Oak. He resided primarily in Lexington, Kentucky, but was one of the wealthiest cotton and sugar planters of the Mississippi Valley. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |