Black Family Texas Civil War Correspondence, 1858-1869

Summary

Title:

Black Family Texas Civil War Correspondence,

Dates:

1858-1869

Creators:

Mrs. E.L. Sanders

Language:

English.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Black Family Texas Civil War Correspondence, Mss106, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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).

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Physical description:

0.25 linear ft.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker

Date Prepared:

© 1998

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: 1994.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Black Family Texas Civil War Correspondence, Mss106, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Location of this collection:

University of the Pacific

University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library

Stockton, CA 95211, US

Contact:

(209) 946-2404

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