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 * Judah Benjamin - sugar planter - Belle Chase LA - https://prcno.org/multiple-narratives-belle-chasse-plantation-house/
 * Jeff Davis - cotton
 * Robert Toombs - cotton "Whereas, Authentic information has been received that Gen. ROBERT TOOMBS, of the C.S.A., Col. A.P. ROOB, and others, owning large plantations on the Chattahoochee River -- influenced, as we believe, more by avarice than patriotism, have planted unusually large crops of cotton, thereby curtailing to that extent the provision crop necessary for the support of our suffering country; therefore. Resulted. That Hen. ROBERT TOOMBS, Col. A.P. Roob, and all others who have followed their pernicious example, be requested to withdraw all their available negro labor from the cultivation of their cotton crops, and place it in charge of the Committee appointed to superintend the defence of the river."

Bolton ref