Bonus Material and Sources for “Union Brothers, Slaver Brother”

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“Notice!” Semi-Weekly Mississippian, Jackson, Mississippi, July 15, 1856.

U.S. Census Bureau, 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, slave schedule entry for Tilman Gilbert, National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Record Group 29, Records of the Bureau of the Census, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

 U.S. Census Bureau, 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, slave schedule entry for Tilman Gilbert, National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Record Group 29, Records of the Bureau of the Census, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Joanne Ryan, Charles E. Pearson, Thurston H. G. Hahn III, Elizabeth L. Davoli, and Carey L. Coxe, The Final Report of the Phase II and III Historical and Archaeological Investigations of Maitland Plantation, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana (Vicksburg, MS: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District, 1997).

Third Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry: Timeline with Historical Information, Compiled by Craig Young, 2001, https://www.thirdmaine.org/PDF/3rdMEshort-hist.pdf

Henry Wilson Owen, The Edward Clarence Plummer History of Bath, Maine (Bath, Maine, Bath Area Bicentennial Committee, 1976).

United States Federal Census Records, 1850-1880.

“William R. Bowman & Company Ad,” The Concordia Intelligencer, Vidalia, Louisiana, July 7, 1851.

Keith Shortall, host, “Maine’s Role in the Slave Trade: Little-Known History of Slave Trading in New England,” Maine Calling (Maine Public Radio, February 17, 2020), accessed May 30, 2026, Maine Public episode page.

Rebecca Goldfine, “Cotton Town Reveals Maine’s Links to the Slave Trade,” Bowdoin College News, December 16, 2021.

Massachusetts, U.S., Marriage Records, 1840-1915.

U.S. Pension File of James H. Couillard, Company D, 3rd Maine Infantry Regiment, Minor’s Pension Certificate No. 121,009, Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Pension File of Charles W. Couillard, Company D, 3rd Maine Infantry Regiment, Minor’s Pension Certificate No. 326,243 Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Ellen Gilbert Couillard, Widow’s Confederate Pension Application for John A. Couillard, Company D, 6th Louisiana Infantry Regiment (Tensas Rifles), Pension File No. 19,276, Louisiana Board of Pension Commissioners, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1928.

Company D, Third Maine Infantry Regiment, Monthly Returns, Maine State Archives, Augusta, Maine.

David B. Birney, “Report of Brig. Gen. David B. Birney, U.S. Army, Commanding First Division,” December 17, 1862, in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ser. I, vol. 21, chap. 33 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1889).

James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press, New York, New York, 1988).

John MacDonald, Great Battles of the Civil War (Chartwell Books, New York, New York, 2014).

James P. Gannon, Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers: The Sixth Louisiana Volunteers, 1861-1865 (Savas Publishing Company, Campbell, CA, 1998).

Angela M. Zombek, “Libby Prison,” Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Humanities, December 7, 2020, https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/libby-prison/

“The Body of James Couillard,”  Daily Sentinel and Times, Bath, Maine, February 21, 1863.

Ellen Gilbert Coulliard, Honeymoon Trip Diary, June–July 1867, unpublished manuscript, privately held by descendants of the Coulliard family.

Tom Weddle, Civil War Soldiers’ Monument, Bath, Maine (Augusta: Maine Geological Survey, Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, November 2009).

“Celebrations,” Daily Sentinel and Times, Bath, Maine, July 4, 1867.

“Marriage,” Daily Sentinel and Times, Bath, Maine, June 03, 1863.

“Deaths,” The Town Talk, Alexandria, Louisiana, October 17, 1918.

Reading Inspired by Episode 17

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

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