Brownsville (Tex.)

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a single receipt roll documenting the issuance of clothing to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of Company D, 114th Regiment, United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) while stationed in Brownsville, Texas, in October 1865. The document lists twenty-eight soldiers who signed for items such as cap covers, trousers, and bootees, each marking their name with an “X.” The roll is dated October 31, 1865, and offers a poignant glimpse into the logistical...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Photograph album with 247 photographs depicting Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City; Tennessee River and other scenes in Alabama; buildings, railroad tracks, and flooding in Texas; Rio Grande in Texas; villages with huts in Mexico; Sierra Madre in Mexico; banana grove in Mexico; people in the cities of Tampico and Veracruz, Mexico; bullfight; coconut grove; El Aguila Camp near Tuxpan on the Tuxpan River; barges; vegetation and landscape views in Mexico; corn fields; Los Naranjos Camp;...