Hey,   I found a web site with a few names of Confederates who moved to Brazil. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here it is. www.confederados.com.br/vet.htm    Carolyn --- On Sat, 6/20/09, Barbara Montgomery <[email protected]> wrote: From: Barbara Montgomery <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MSMONROE] Confederates move to Brazil To: "Wanda Sawtelle" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 1:31 PM Hi Wanda, Some of my great grandfather's first cousins were among the Confederados. My great great grandmother's older brother, Warren Montgomery Ellis, was married to Mary Mathilde Strong.  Her father, Henry Strong, was one of the leaders of the confederados.  He left from Copiah Co., MS for Sao Paulo, Brazil with one of his daughters, Sally Strong, and the familiy's slaves. Mary Mathilde wanted to follow her father and sister.  Warren Ellis wanted no pert of it.  When he left on business, Mary with the help of friends, took her four surviving daughters to New York City where they embarked on a ship for Brazil.  Warren Ellis returned home and found his entire family missing.  He rushed to New Orleans since that was where most of the people heading to Brazil has set sail.  Finding no trace of his family, he returned home broken hearted.  He died two years later and family legend was that it was the broken heart that killed him.  His tombstone was inscribed, "Imperfect Justice". Several years ago, I made contact with a great granddaughter of Mary Mathilde Strong & Warren Montgomery Ellis named Maria Elisa Byington.  She was born and raised in the American colony in Brazil.  She made a discovery in an old trunk theat had belonged to her aunt, Sally Strong.  It contained a number of love letters that had been written to her by a young Confederate officer.  He had courted her before the war but her heart belonged to another soldier who was killed in the Civil War.  His letters continued even after the war ended and she decided to accompany her father to Brazil. Sally's suitor told her about post-war life in MS snd begged her to return so that they could be married.  Sally's heart remained true to her deceased love and she remained unmarried in Brazil for the rest of her life.  Mrs. Byington wrote a book about Sally Strong based on the letters. If you search the word "Confederados", you will find many articles and web sites based on these people and their stories. Barbara Montgomery On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Wanda Sawtelle <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message