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Register of the Black Family Texas Civil War Correspondence, 1858-1869
Mss106
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Title: Black Family Texas Civil War Correspondence,
Date (inclusive): 1858-1869
Collection number: Mss106
Creator:
Mrs. E.L. Sanders
Extent: 0.3 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Black Family Texas Civil War Correspondence, Mss106,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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).
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.