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The Civil War and its Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives
801
Texas Digital Newspaper Program
23
Rare Book and Texana Collections
20
Telegraph and Texas Register
11
UNT Special Collections General Collection
8
Historical Photography Collection
3
Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection
2
From Republic to State: Debates and Documents Relating to the Annexation of Texas, 1836-1856
1
Mike Cox Newspaper Collection
1
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Hamilton K. Redway Family papers, 1825-1916
417
Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
198
The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
150
A. D. Kennard Family Papers, 1842-1884
29
Galveston Tri-Weekly News
6
The Tri-Weekly Telegraph
5
Box 2: Underwood Diary Transcripts, 1852-1862
4
The Houston Daily Telegraph
4
The Old Flag
3
[Cooke county records, 1857-1950]
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Letter to Appleton & Co., 9 November 1860
Letter from Mary Jones, widow of the last president of the Republic of Texas. The original letter is housed in the University of North Texas Archives.
Date:
November 9, 1860
Creator:
Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
County map of Texas.
Shows counties of 1858. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Inset: "Galveston Bay and vicinity. 30."
Date:
1860
Creator:
Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
J. H. Colton's map of Texas.
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington. "41, 42."
Date:
1866
Creator:
Colton, J.H.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado : showing also the sourthern portion of Dacotah / drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble.
Relief shown by hachures. From: Mitchell's new general atlas. Shows towns, counties, location of Indian tribes and trails in Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Dakota Territory. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." In lower right corner: 43. Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich.
Date:
1861
Creator:
Gamble, W. H.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The treachery in Texas, the secession of Texas, and the arrest of the United States officers and soldiers serving in Texas. Read before the New-York Historical Society, June 25, 1861. By Major J. T. Sprague, U. S. A.
The treachery in Texas, the secession of Texas, and the arrest of the United States officers and soldiers serving in Texas. Read before the New-York Historical Society, June 25, 1861. By Major J. T. Sprague, U. S. A.
Date:
1862
Creator:
Sprague, John Titcomb
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Land grant] : Austin, [Tex.], 1860 January 26.
Land Grant for 160 acres in Denton County, signed by Sam Houston.
Date:
January 26, 1860
Creator:
Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Land grant] : Austin, [Tex.], 1861 May 21.
Original Land Grant for 160 acres in Denton County.
Date:
May 21, 1861
Creator:
Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Land grant] : Austin, [Tex.], 1863 August 14.
Land Grant for 176 acres in Montague County.
Date:
August 14, 1863
Creator:
Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Land grant] : Austin, [Tex.], 1869 May 29.
Land Grant for 199 2/3 acres in Harrison county.
Date:
May 29, 1869
Creator:
Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Johnson's new map of the state of Texas]
Hand drawn color-shaded map showing counties, cities, rivers, creeks, railroads, roads, and topographical features of Texas in 1860s. Insets of Plan of the northern part of Texas, Plan of Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake.
Date:
1860~
Creator:
Johnson & Browning.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Johnson's new map of the state of Texas]
Hand drawn color-shaded map showing counties, cities, rivers, creeks, railroads, roads, and topographical features of Texas as of 1859. Insets of Plan of the northern part of Texas, Plan of Galveston Bay and Plan of Sabine Lake.
Date:
[1864..1865]
Creator:
Johnson and Ward
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Johnson's Texas]
Hand drawn color-shaded map showing counties, cities, rivers, creeks, railroads, roads, and topographical features of Texas as of 1866. Insets of Plan of the northern part of Texas, Plan of Galveston Bay.
Date:
1866
Creator:
Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett), 1827-1884
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Map of central Texas : from Sabine River to west of Waco on the Brazos, north as far as Linden-Daingerfield-Pittsburg in the east, and Fort Worth-Denton-Dallas in the west]
Hand drawn map showing central Texas from west of Waco to Sabine River as of 1860. North western section of Louisiana included. Cities, towns, rivers, creeks, roads, railroad lines and some topographical features are included. General land description is shown (example: Rolling Country timbered with Post Oak).
Date:
1860
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Johnson's Texas
Hand drawn color map of Texas showing counties, cities, roads, railroads, creeks and rivers circa 1866. Insets showing Plan of Galveston Bay and Vicinity, and Northern Part of Texas.
Date:
1866
Creator:
Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett), 1827-1884
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The American conflict: a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the Union. Volume 2.
Volume two of a two-volume set details political and military action in the Civil War. Chapter I (pp. 17-25) discusses activity in Texas and New Mexico in 1862. Analytical index begins on p. 765.
Date:
1866
Creator:
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The American conflict: a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the Union. Volume 1.
Volume one of a two-volume set gives a historical overview of slavery and the abolition movement in the U.S., records events leading to secession, and details political and military action early in the Civil War. Chapter XII (pp. 147-177) discusses the annexation of Texas to the United States. Analytical index begins on p. 633.
Date:
1864
Creator:
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[$500 Bond Issued June 28, 1866]
$500 mortgage bond presented to Henry G. Northon and Virgil Whitcomb by Antonio López de Santa Anna using property and palaces in Mexico as security.
Date:
June 28, 1866
Creator:
Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Colorado Territory, Compiled from Government Maps & actual Surveys made in 1861.
Map of Colorado Territory compiled from government maps and surveys. Includes place names, rivers and some geographical features, with relief shown by hachures.
Date:
November 1, 1861
Creator:
Case, Francis M.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Map of Public Surveys in Colorado Territory to accompany a report of the Surveyor Gen., 1863
Map of Colorado Territory in 1863 showing place names and geographical features (with relief shown by hachures). Scale 1:1,140,480
Date:
1863
Creator:
Pierce, John.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Map of United States Military Rail Roads : Showing the Rail Roads operated during the War from 1862-1866 as Military Lines
Map of U. S. railroads 1861-1865 used during Civil War by the military. Relief shown by hachures. Scale 1:1,267,200.
Date:
1866
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lloyd's Official Map of the State of Virginia
Hand-colored map of the state of Virginia in 1861, used by General Scott to plan campaigns during the Civil War. Counties are labeled and geographic features are noted, with relief shown by hachures. It includes advertisements, tables of population, steamboat routes, and altitudes, and notes on mapping and geology in text blocks around the outside of the map.
Date:
1861
Creator:
Lloyd, James T.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The UNT Digital Library
My diary North and South. By William Howard Russell.
Map showing the eastern part of the United States circa 1863 to accompany text of "My Diary North and South."
Date:
1863
Creator:
Russell, William Howard, Sir, 1820-1907.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[A. C. Lenert Memorandum Book]
Photocopy of a handwritten memorandum book written by A. C. Lenert documenting his experiences as a member of Waul’s Texas Legion at the battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Date:
1862/1865
Creator:
Lenert, A. C.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Maud C. Fentress to David Fentress, April 29, 1860]
Letter from Maud C. Fentress to her son David to her son describing the health of family members; the courtship of William and the widow Polk; her social life and the activities of her church; home repair and her need for a new well; Buster Belcher's denial in the sending an "impudent Valentine" and how rudely Kate has treated him. She requests information on his prospect for a good crop and "for making an easy living out there."
Date:
April 29, 1860
Creator:
Fentress, Maud C.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library