You wrote: > Subject: [ALLAMAR] Confederates move to Brazil > Beville State at Walker College campus currently has the Lincoln Exhibit. > Speakers have presented programs on different aspects of life as it was > during the Lincoln era and after the Civil War. > I had not realized that 4,000 confederates from the deep south states > of MS, AL, GA, TX moved on to southern Brazil to land granted them by the > Brazilian gov't. They brought better quality of education and plows to > Brazil and maintained their Confederate identity. When Jimmy Carter was > governor of GA he made a trip to Brazil and did visit with decendants of > the > Confederate Colonists there. > I knew there was migration from AL to TX during the period right after > the Civil War but to Brazil is new to me. Does anyone know of family > members who joined in this move to Brazil? or good sources that recorded > these years from 1865 to 1885 as this movement took place? This past week I attended the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford Univ. in B'ham - an outstanding week with nationally known speakers. In the Bibliography re the Confederacy are the following: Eugene C. Harter - "The Lost Colony of the Confederacy" Bette Antues de Oliverira - "North American Immigration to Brazil" Alfred J. Hanna - "Confederate Exiles in Venezuela" Donald C. Simmons - "Confederate Settlements in British Honduras" Using Google I found the first one (didn't look further) which can be ordered or found at a local library and probably interlibrary loan. Caroline H. Horton