Inlian (Indian?)

Inlian (Indian?) is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver E.A. David whose occupation is listed as “Cook”

Inlian was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, Mississippi” as a “Nurse”… “employed to care for the sick who could not be moved…”

The record, signed by “Surgeon Thomas D. Isom, C.S.A” shows that E.A. David was paid $10.54 for Inlian’s labor of 14 days from June 14 to Jun 30, 1862.

Profile written by Jeff Jackson and Beth Kruse