Request by Laura Duval, Austin, to join unionist husband beyond lines

Laura's husband, federal judge Thomas H. Duval, had already fled Texas in Oct. 1863, hoping to impress Lincoln with a plan to end the war. He and his family returned to Texas in 1865, where he became a moderate Republican during Reconstruction.

Found in Confederate Citizens File
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