pace1998

@Article{ pace1998,
	author = {Robert F. Pace},
	title = {'It was {Bedlam} Let Loose': The {Louisiana} sugar country and the {Civil War}},
	journal = {Louisiana History},
	volume = 39,
	number = 4,
	month = {Autumn},
	pages = {389-409},
	year = 1998,
}

http://www.jstor.org/stable/4233533

p. 398: Quotes a letter from William Lourd to John Moore reporting that several slaves who had run away had been caught and impressed into Confederate service and “was valued at two hundred dollars a peace and twenty five dollers a month while in the army.”

p. 403: Notes that lack of capital was a key obstacle to reviving sugar production after the war.