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Special Orders Concerning Destruction of San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad
A special order directed to the Confederate engineer Col. Lea instructs him
to take "the negroes in his charge" to destroy the railroad between Lavaca
and Victoria. Detailed instructions about where to bring th enslaved laborers
and how to equip them…
Letter from R. R. Haynes to Pendleton Murrah, January 5, 1864
An old friend of Murrah's reports on how his administration has been received in the state and on local developments in Marshall, which is now "filled with Govt functionaries, Govt details, and men, and families, whose misfortunes, have driven them…
Letter from Penitentiary Superintendent to Texas Governor
A. J. Bennett, the superintendent of the Huntsville penitentiary, writes to Governor E. J. Davis about the injustices suffered by people of color in the state and in the prison system.
Letter from James A. Baker to Penitentiary Board
James A. Baker writes to the penitentiary board on behalf of H. E. Perkins, who is seeking reimbursement for expenses incurred in the transportation of "five negroes" taken to the penitentiary and "under the law as now amended will remain there until…
Letter Inquiring about Hiring Convicts for Road Construction
A group of citizens in Washington, Grimes, and Walker counties wishes to inquire whether convicts from the Huntsville State Penitentiary can be hired to build a road from Washington through Navasota.
Statement of the Number of Freedmen in State Penitentiary
A survey of freedpeople in the Huntsville State Penitentiary in Texas, dated
November 6, 1866.
Henrietta Wood's Narrative, Part 2
This is a continuation of Henrietta Wood's narrative, from her kidnapping to her arrival in Lexington. Part 1 of the narrative must have appeared in an earlier issue of the paper.
Henrietta Wood's Narrative, Part 3
The third installment of Wood's narrative from 1879 (the first is no longer extant) covering the brief trial attempting to prevent her sale farther South and her meeting with a long lost brother in William Pullum's slave pen in Lexington.
Henrietta Wood's Narrative, Part 4
The fourth part (third extant) of Henrietta Wood's narrative of her kidnapping and enslavement, covering her sale to Mississippi, her time spent in Texas during the Civil War, and her suit against Zebulon Ward.
Petition from Harry Pope and Sarah Timsy to Recover their Children
In this undated document, two formerly enslaved parents in Cherokee County,
Texas, petition Governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton for help in recovering
their children from "the former owner by force of arms" after they were
"taken out of the petitioners…