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Re: Colonel Elihu P. Watkins, 56th Georgia

San Pedro Sula
July 28, 2011

Yesterday, I read a "Report on the Republic of Honduras" by Col. E. P. Watkins, A Comissioner Appointed At A Public Meeting Composed Of A Large Number Of The Citizens Of Atlanta, To Visit That Place; published in 1867 at Atlanta, Georgia, by the Intelligencer Book and Job Office. Price Fifty Cents.
It is a 44 page, very accurate view of conditions in Honduras in 1867, when the Honduran government offered land grants to former Confederate officers and their families, to promote settlement and development of the San Pedro Sula area, which is today a metropolitan area encompassing over one million inhabitants. According to Col. Elihu P. Watkins' pamphlet,he planned to emigrate to Honduras with his family shortly after publication of his report in 1867.
The Museum of Anthropology and History of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, was provided a copy of the 1867 report by Dr. Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle, the former
Minister of Culture of Honduras(2006-2009), who obtained it from Mr. John C. Moran, a local resident who is a descendant of one of those long-ago settlers.

P.E. Davila

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