Cousin Louise

Not identified

James wrote from New Orleans in September 1863: “I received a letter from Cousin Louise, she feels very bad about the loss of her brother. He died at Vicksburg on the afternoon of the Fourth of July, that ever-to-be-remembered day on which Vicksburg fell. I am drilling a Company of negroes that will revenge his death, if the have a fair chance” (James, September 1, 1863).

Neither Louise nor her brother is identified.