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Matthew Fontaine Maury
In
the summer of 1865 some southerners facing economic ruin, military occupation
and possible imprisonment, decided to emigrate.
Commodore Matthew Maury, one of America Mexico
Maximilian
had come to the throne in 1863, under the guarantee of the Emperor Napoleon III
of France, that the French army would remain in Mexico until an independent
Mexican army could be trained and equipped.
Maximilian
was anxious to welcome honest and hard-working colonists from the devastated
southern states, and offered the colonists fertile land, particularly suited to
the cultivation of tobacco, at the nominal rate of one dollar an acre. The Imperial Mexican government pledged
itself to provide free transportation for those unable to pay their own fares
and to exempt all immigrants from taxation for a period of ten years. The new colony was called the “Carlota
Colony”, in honor of the Empress.
Maury
was appointed the first Imperial Immigration Commissioner, but his dreams of a
new life in Mexico were no to be. Soon
the United States June 19, 1867 . Maury and his Confederate followers found
themselves once again dispossessed.
The last death agonies of
the Confederacy captured in pictures.
A brief look at love, sex, and marriage in the Civil War. The book
covers courtship, marriage, birth control and pregnancy, divorce, slavery and
the impact of the war on social customs.
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