Improved Steering and Turning Apparatus for Vessels. (open access)

Improved Steering and Turning Apparatus for Vessels.

Patent for improvements in steering vessels: "by means of rotary paddle wheels the blades of which are arranged parallel to keel" (lines 21-23).
Date: May 29, 1866
Creator: Forshey, Caleb G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter of Standing for Charles Kavanaugh from Providence Church, May 12, 1860] (open access)

[Letter of Standing for Charles Kavanaugh from Providence Church, May 12, 1860]

Letter of standing for Charles Kavanaugh from Providence Church. The letter stated that Charles was a member in full standing of the church and was dismissed when joining another church of the same faith.
Date: May 12, 1860
Creator: Providence Church
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to R.E.B. Baylor from Walker Wheeler, May 26, 1863] (open access)

[Letter to R.E.B. Baylor from Walker Wheeler, May 26, 1863]

Letter to R.E.B. Baylor from Walker Wheeler regarding Civil War news. Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Papers.
Date: May 26, 1863
Creator: Wheeler, Walker
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dora to Lizzie Johnson, dated May 12, 1863] (open access)

[Letter from Dora to Lizzie Johnson, dated May 12, 1863]

Letter from Dora to Lizzie Johnson. Dora inquires as to why she has not heard from Lizzie, questions Lizzie's loyalties to the Union or the Confederacy since Lizzie lives in Austin. Dora also states that she knows both her and Lizzie's brothers were taken prisoner at the Post [Arkansas Post] earlier in 1863.
Date: May 12, 1863
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History