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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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

Murrah writes to clarify with Luckett the names of those agents authorized by the Brazos Manufacturing Company to sell cotton along the Mexican border.

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."

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.

Murrah writes to inquire why proceeds from cotton sold on behalf of the state is in Havana, instead of in the state treasury.

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.