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Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85134271

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

William Pitt Ballinger diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0104
Abstract

Diary covering the 1865 negotiations with General E. R.S. Canby and others over the cessation of hostilities between the U.S. and the state of Texas, other legal cases legal and business, as well as personal and family affairs.

Dates: 1864-1868
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George S. Smith Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1607
Abstract

Civil War diary of George S. Smith, sergeant in Company C of the 48th Ohio Regiment, covering his service in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Texas, 1863-65.

Dates: 1863 - 1865
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Quayle correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1176
Abstract

Letters written from the First Frontier District of Texas, of which Quayle was commander, providing information on Confederate military dispositions, 1862-64. Quayle's correspondents included James Bourland, H. E. McCulloch, and James Webb Throckmorton.

Dates: 1862 - 1864
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections