Mr. Hugh,

I have copied and pasted below the source for the "Guide to the Earl Blake Cox Family Papers" located with the Washington State University Libraries, Mauscrips, Archives, and special collections. This colection has considerable information on Captain E. W. Fuller. I located this collection some four years ago and was extremely excited to find the information. This collection has a photo of captain Fuller in civilian cloths and wearing his masonic attire. Capt Fuller was a member of the Franklin, Louisiana Masonic Lodge. His letters he wrote to his wife are in a dictionary that was given to him by a lady in New Orleans when he was a prisoner at the New Orleans Custom House waiting to be transfered to Fort Delaware and then Johnson Island Prison in Ohio where he died. You can communicate with Washinton State University Archivist at the number listed below. They know the value of the collection they have on Capt. Fuller and require full creditation of orgin of the collection to mention the University in any publications.

There is much to be said and read about our Confederate leaders in the Teche Region, but no Confederate officer in the Teche Region was more admired by the civilian population of the Teche region than Captain E. W. Fuller. He was consider a hero to the people of the Teche region. One planter named Henry Lawrence of Brashear City wrote in a letter to a family member back east (not his exact quote) that if Captain Fuller were the Confederate commander in charge of the Confederate forces in the Teche region the Confederate army would be winning more battles. Mr. Lawrence also had not so kind words for Gen. Alfred Mouton, calling him a drunk.

Best wishes on your research.

Roland R. Stansbury, Director
Young-Sanders Center
Franklin, Louisian
(337) 413-1861
ysc1861@aol.com
Youngsanders.org

Guide to the Earl Blake Cox Family Papers
1759-1863
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Overview of the Collection
Creator: Cox, Earl Blake Family
Title: Earl Blake Cox Family Papers
Dates: 1759-1863 ( inclusive )
Quantity: 5 containers. (.5 linear feet of shelf space.)
Collection Number: Cage 93
Summary: Receipt book, 1759-1771, New York, presumed to be John Anderson's; diary of Nathaniel P. Milliard, 1856-1859, Louisiana sawmill operator; letters of E.W. Fuller, 1863, while in Union prisoner of war camps; Fuller's portrait; donor file; and Flora's Dictionary, by Mrs. E.W. Wirt, interleaved with Fuller's letters.
Repository: Washington State University Libraries
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections

New Holland Library
Pullman, WA 99164-5610 USA
(509) 335-6691
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm

Languages: Collection materials are in English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Biographical Note
This collection of family papers contains a book of receipts, 1759-1763, apparently kept by Captain John Anderson, who family tradition connects with Alexander Hamilton. Anderson's daughter Affie Brower Anderson (b. 1753) married Sylvester Fuller (1753-1815) in 1776.

Their son, Alfonso Theodore Poster Fuller (1792-1857) and his wife Mary Swain, had thirteen children. The eldest son, Emelious Wood Fuller, a steamboat Captain, was captured and held prisoner by the Union army in 1863, where he wrote letters to his wife Mary B. Fuller on the blank leaves in Mrs. Wirt's Flora's Dictionary. His sister, Adela Romaine Fuller, married a Cox who was Earl Blake Cox's grandfather. Captain E. W. Fuller's daughter, Mary Rozealia Anderson Fuller, who died in 1922, had married Nathaniel Pritchard Millard (1819-1879) on November 18, 1857. Millard was a sawmill operator in Louisiana and kept a diary from 1856-1859. His daughter married Adela Cox's son Edward Wirt Cox and their children were Earl Blake and Edna L. Cox. In this manner both A. T. F. Fuller and his son E. W. Fuller were E. B. Cox's great-grandfathers.

Content Description
Receipt book, 1759-1771, New York, presumed to be John Anderson's; diary of Nathaniel P. Milliard, 1856-1859, Louisiana sawmill operator; letters of E.W. Fuller, 1863, while in Union prisoner of war camps; Fuller's portrait; donor file; and Flora's Dictionary, by Mrs. E.W. Wirt, interleaved with Fuller's letters.

Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
Restrictions on viewing, originally placed in 1969, have since expired. This collection is open for research use.

Restrictions on Use :
Publications rights were retained by Earl B. Cox and Edna L. Cox.

Preferred Citation :
[Item Description]. Guide to the Earl Blake Cox Family Papers, Cage 93. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Administrative Information
Acquisition Information :
Earl B. and Edna L. Cox donated these materials to the WSU Library, 1962-1969.

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Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
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1 [Anderson, John] Receipt book, New York., 1759-1771
1 volume.
2 Millard, Nathaniel Pritchard (1819-1879). Diaries, Louisiana., 1856-1859
4 volumes.
3 Fuller, Emelious Wood Letters, as a Union prisoner, to Mary B. Fuller, St. Martinsville, Louisiana., April-July, 1863
4 Miscellaneous, also filed in Flora's dictionary: these include recipes, part of a letter, death notices for N. P. Millard and James F. Fuller, a letter-head, and a portrait of Captain E. W. Fuller.Letters on pages of Flora's dictionary , 1879-1900
8 items.
5 Donor file, correspondence with Earl Blake Cox. , 1960-1970

Subjects
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Personal Names :
Fuller, Emelious Wood
Fuller, Emelious Wood
Milliard, Nathaniel Pritchard, 1819-1879
Wirt, E. W., Mrs.
Family Names :
Cox, Earl Blake Family--Archives ( creator)
Geographical Names :
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate
Subject Terms :
Country life -- Louisiana
Flower language --Dictionaries
Titles within the Collection :
Flora's dictionary
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Finding aid prepared by Terry Abraham
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