Mineral Springs Post Office, Union & Lincoln Parishes Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 8/2004


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Early Postmasters of Mineral Springs Post Office, Union & Lincoln Parishes Louisiana
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SOURCE:
Records of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832 – September 30, 1971, located in the 
National Archives, identifed as Record Group 28, Microfilm Publication M841, 
Reels #51 & 52. 

T. D. Hudson transcribed this information from the original records and donated 
it to the Union Parish Archives in August 2004. 

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MINERAL SPRINGS POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED:
    25 October 1860

HISTORY OF MINERAL SPRINGS POST OFFICE:
    probably closed during the war
    officially closed by the United States on 28 June 1866

POSTMASTERS:

John B. Wright, 25 Oct 1860 - 27 June 1866

     [Office permanently closed on 28 June 1866.]


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COMMENTS:

#1
Unless someone else took over the postmaster duties from Wright, this office almost 
certainly ceased to operate early in the war (the date of closure 
above is merely the official date that the United States declared it closed). John 
Wright of Union Parish enlisted in Company K, 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment in 
the summer of 1861. This regiment formed in Jackson Parish (just a few miles south 
of where Wright lived) and was quickly sent to the front in Richmond, Virginia. 
Wright served until January/February 1863, when he was furloughed home to Vienna 
(just south of where Wright lived). He returned to service by March and participated 
in the infamous Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, serving under Generals 
Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. He lost his left arm sometime during the 
summer of 1864, but returned to service and was paroled in June 1865.

#2
Although the United States Postal Records give his name as John "B." Wright, I 
believe this was actually John "G." Wright, also known as "John Wright, Jr.". 
He lived in that portion of Union Parish south of Bernice that remained a 
part of Union when Jackson Parish was formed in 1845, but was taken from 
Union and put into Lincoln in 1873. This narrow sliver of land was located 
between five and eight miles south of modern Bernice, and now forms the 
northern portion of Lincoln Parish, just north of Dubach.

#3
Based upon the above, this office is located in the region that is northern 
Lincoln Parish today. Wright owned land in Sections 1, 3, 4, 10, 12 of 
Township 20 North, Range 3 West. The office was almost certainly located 
somewhere in this region.

#4
There is a modern Mineral Springs community in Lincoln Parish, somewhere 
west of Highway #33 between Farmerville and Ruston. I don't know if this 
office is in that same community or not.


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