Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Papers. Letter to R.E.B. Baylor from J.E.B. regarding military pensions and literary matters

Deed of Trust transferring livestock to M. Kennard.

Deed of trust transferring property in Navasota to M. Kennard

Labor contract between Seward and several workers, specifying provisions that Seward will provide and monthly payment to Anderson Elliot and family: Roxana, Benjamin, Anderson, Absalom, Monroe Moore, Dorlas Greer, Tilda Thompson, Ruth Elliot.

Papers of Alexander Simon. Announcement of Simon's resignation from the Royal Arch Masons.

Letter to R.E.B. Baylor from Mary W. Houston regarding the gift of a portrait of Baylor to the Alumnae of Baylor Female College. Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Papers.

Engraved woodcut of cattle crossing a stream printed in Harper's Weekly, October 19, 1867, page 665.

Papers of Alexander Simon. Sworn Statement on one side and Certificate of Registration on the other; registers Simon as a qualified voter of Washington County.

Labor contract for freedman Frank Seward. He was to be a farm tenant for John H. Seward.

From "Harper's Weekly." This item includes a sketch of Houston, Texas and the text on the reverse of the clipping.

Letter to nephew from R.E.B. Baylor regarding coming to Texas, bringing negro employees, condition of negroes in Independence, and family matters. Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Papers.

Receipt no. 208 to J.H. Seward, Washington, TX, from the Office of Depot Quarter Master, Austin, TX, for one government mule at $76.

Seward Papers. Receipt no. 210 to J.N. Martin of St. Louis Co., MO, from the Office of Depot Quarter Master, Austin, TX, for one government mule at $100

Front cover and title page or an address delivered at the Tremont Temple in Boston on December 3, 1866.

Papers of Alexander Simon. Certificate of Registration to Simon from Chief Justice O.H.T. Garrett entitling Simon to vote, having already received his Oath of Amnesty.

Copy of a legal statement by John H. Seward in New Orleans regarding his ownership of sixty-seven bales of cotton that were seized by the United States Army in Brownsville, Texas. This copy has colored text.

Copy of a legal statement by John H. Seward in New Orleans regarding his ownership of sixty-seven bales of cotton that were seized by the United States Army in Brownsville, Texas.

Copy of a legal statement by John H. Seward in New Orleans regarding his ownership of sixty-seven bales of cotton that were seized by the United States Army in Brownsville, Texas.

Copy of a legal statement by John H. Seward in New Orleans regarding his ownership of sixty-seven bales of cotton that were seized by the United States Army in Brownsville, Texas.

Papers of Alexander Simon. Oath of Amnesty claiming allegiance to the United States Constitution; includes physical description of Alexander Simon.

Papers of Alexander Simon. Pardon from T.S. Post granting Simon parole from Company B, Giddings Battalion Texas Cavalry, C.S.A.

Papers of Alexander Simon. Sworn statement by Simon pledging his "Parole of Honor" not to serve in the C.S.A or render aid. "I, the undersigned, Prisoner of War, belonging to the Army . . ."

Hand-colored print of the Civil War camp, Camp Ford taken from an 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly, page 132. Camp Ford, located near Tyler, Texas was established in 1863 as a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War. Over the course of two years, the camp held about 6,000 prisoners and was one of the largest Confederate prison camps west of the Mississippi River.

Hand-colored print of the Civil War camp, Camp Ford took from an 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly, page 132. Camp Ford, located near Tyler, Texas was established in 1863 as a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War. Over the course of two years, the camp held about 6,000 prisoners and was one of the largest Confederate prison camps west of the Mississippi River. George Washington Simmons, pictured holding a pail, was the paymaster of the USS Clifton, captured at Sabine Pass on September 8, 1863. The crew was initially incarcerated at Camp Groce near Hempstead, but the prisoners were all moved to Camp Ford in December 1863. Simmons was in the Prisoner exchange that occurred at Red River Landing on February 25, 1865. The lithograph made from his sketch was published in New York on March 4, 1865, only a week after his exchange.