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Mary Pugh to Richard Pugh, December 15, 1862, Pugh-Williams-Mayes Family Papers, Reel 7, Frame 151-153.pdf
Mary W. Pugh writes from Rusk, Texas, after a recent trip with her father back to Louisiana. He is leaving again in the morning and she wishes to send a letter to her husband Richard. She notes that with all the white men leaving, "there is no one…

Letters from Military Board to Wheat and Fletcher, May 23, 1864.pdf
Wheat and Fletcher, formerly of the Brazos Manufacturing Company, have written to the board asking for detail exemptions from the draft for a list of men in their employ. The Board replies approving most of their requests but specifying the terms on…

WF Weeks to John Moore, October 14, 1863, Weeks Family Papers, Reel 18, Frames 201-202.pdf
Weeks reports from Houston on some arrangements he has made to hire out enslaved people and also discusses recent military movements at Sabine Pass and elsewhere. He also expresses his surprise at learning that "one of my negroes" was among "the…

Receipts to RL Pugh for Payment of Tax in Kind, 1864 and 1865, Pugh-Williams-Mayes Papers, Reel 7, Frame 297.pdf
An account sheet concerning over $1300 worth of bacon and the payment of Pugh's tax in kind to the government Iron Works in Anderson County.

TSLAC_Military_Board_of_Texas_2-10:304_Abney_034-037.pdf
The Governor, writing as president of the Military Board, instructs Abney not to take orders from any Confederate officer or county official other than the state military board, and urges him to report more often.

Letter from Murrah to Luckett, May 27, 1864.pdf
Murrah writes to clarify with Luckett the names of those agents authorized by the Brazos Manufacturing Company to sell cotton along the Mexican border.

Pendleton Murrah to EB Nichols, March 22, 1864.pdf
Murrah writes to Nichol to explain his State Plan for purchasing cotton, stressing the need to harmonize with Confederate officials while also pursuing the state's own "liberal policy."

Pendleton Murrah to W. J. Hutchins, May 10, 1864, TSLAC.pdf
Governor Murrah writes to Hutchins to justify his State Plan for purchasing cotton and to explain that he intends not to undermine the Confederate Cotton Bureau.

Pendleton Murrah to John Williams, 1865, TSLAC.pdf
Murrah writes to inquire why proceeds from cotton sold on behalf of the state is in Havana, instead of in the state treasury.

Letter from a Weeks Agent in Houston, February 28, 1864, Weeks Family Papers, Reel 18, Frame 3550000.pdf
A letter from a Mr. Mills to Weeks reports on the escape of two of Weeks's "negroes," one of whom was named Charles, from government service and their subsequent appearance on a Texas plantation.
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