Description
This collection consists of photocopies of manuscript and typescripts in a loose-leaf
binder. Entries below composed exclusively of a location and date are letters from James
Black to his wife, Patience. Entries that begin with a "P" are letters from Patience
Black to her husband, James. These were written from South Bosque unless otherwise
specified.
Background
The Blacks were a Texas pioneer family. Most of this collection consists of letters
between James Black, a Confederate officer on coastal defense duty near Galveston, and
his wife, Patience Crain Black. Most of Mrs. Black's eighty-seven letters were written
from South Bosque or from Henderson. Mr. Black's letters place him at Fort Herbert and
Virginia Point (1862), Fort Point and Galveston Island (1863), Fort Point or Fort
Sulakowski (1864) and Battery Rogers, Galveston (1865).