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Col White was in the group of 109 that left Mobile in July 1867 on the steamer RED GAUNTLET for Para. There was apparently a passenger list published in articles in the Mobile Advertiser of 13 & 14 Jul 1867 [if anyone can find these, I would certainly like to see a copy or transcript]. The REG GAUNTLET has problems and left the passengers at St Thomas, from whence they had to buy passage on another steamer for Para, and then also up the Amazon to Santarem, where they arrived in September 1867.
The group became disattisfied at Santarem and, after complaining to the US Consul tha the provicial govrnment had not kept their side of the settlement agreement (eg the road to Santarem had not been built), most left for Belem where they took various jobs to make ends meet. Col White, with his wife and sons, were amongst those that stayed on a while at Santarem, though later they moved to Santa Barbara d'Oeste in Sao Paulo State (with the families Demaret and Barr).
It seems that Col White might well have been Joseph Henry White. At some time, within the Santa Barbara Confederados, there was a marriage between William White (perhaps one of the sons) and Esther Ferguson.
Most of the above is from Judith McKnight Jones' "Soldado Descansa!", obtainable from the address given by Critovao Beasley in his resonse of 22 Feb.
David Asprey
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