I didn't find anything that I could definitely pin to Warren Adams, the mail carrier. I think he probably actually worked with or for E. H. Cushing of the Houston Telegraph. Cushing has a fairly fat file in the Civilian and Business file, but it's mostly related to publishing official notices in the newspaper. There's also a fairly good set of papers in Confederate--Officers for Charles C. Clute, superintendent of government expresses, headquartered in Houston. However, it seems that he was mostly concerned with communications either inside the state of Texas, or with Shreveport. Kirby Smith no doubt had his own courier system running east, but I don't know what name to look up and I haven't systematically gone through Louisiana items yet. Still a work in progress. Unfortunately surviving Civil War Shreveport newspapers are almost non-existent. If you get to Austin, they aren't in the Center for American History but at the Collections Deposit Library, which is like a storage building of stuff that's seldom looked at. At least that's where they were when I saw them in original format.

Vicki Betts