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I have just added two newspaper files to my homepage--
[Houston] Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 1860-June 1862--
[Houston] Tri-Weekly Telegraph, June 1862-December 1862--
These runs are incomplete. I am currently working on 1863-1865, but most of 1864 is missing. As usual, the focus is on the homefront and on information from the troops other than battle and casualty reports. However, I'll be sending a rather large file of letters and other information on Terry's Texas Rangers over to Troy Groves to add to his TTR webpage. Don't look for it soon--they had a couple of correspondents that could write column after column from the western theatre.
Highlights from these two files--burial caskets, entertainments, flags, Bastrop Military Institute, Christmas, women shop owners, Texas State Penitentiary fabrics, coffee substitutes, homemade castor oil, Ladies Aid Societies across Texas, minstrel shows, other concerts, appeals for medical supplies, Texas wine, a little on the Houston depot, Texan German Confederates, description of a trip from Houston to Alexandria LA, aid for the poor of Houston and Galveston, reports on the ladies of Nashville after the fall, paper shortage, producing saltpeter, an appeal for ladies to volunteer to make cartridges, making salt, bad behavior by Texas soldiers in Texas, resettling Galveston refugees inland, a trip from Houston to Niblett's Bluff, a trip from Houston to Richmond back to Alexandria LA, prices, Piedmont Springs resort (near Navasota), Bryan's Texas Hospital in MS, pigs banished (and return) to the streets of Houston, civilian passports in Texas (including form), auctions, catnip in candles, homespun, gathering clothing to send to the front, cornmeal recipes, Hempstead quarantined, gardening and seeds, a snuff dipping young lady (and a double-fatality associated with snuff) (and a defense for dipping), cotton cards, the bombardment of Lavaca.
The rest of the Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 1863-1865, will follow within the next few weeks, time permitting.
Vicki Betts
vbetts@gower.net
[Houston] Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 1860-June 1862--
[Houston] Tri-Weekly Telegraph, June 1862-December 1862--
These runs are incomplete. I am currently working on 1863-1865, but most of 1864 is missing. As usual, the focus is on the homefront and on information from the troops other than battle and casualty reports. However, I'll be sending a rather large file of letters and other information on Terry's Texas Rangers over to Troy Groves to add to his TTR webpage. Don't look for it soon--they had a couple of correspondents that could write column after column from the western theatre.
Highlights from these two files--burial caskets, entertainments, flags, Bastrop Military Institute, Christmas, women shop owners, Texas State Penitentiary fabrics, coffee substitutes, homemade castor oil, Ladies Aid Societies across Texas, minstrel shows, other concerts, appeals for medical supplies, Texas wine, a little on the Houston depot, Texan German Confederates, description of a trip from Houston to Alexandria LA, aid for the poor of Houston and Galveston, reports on the ladies of Nashville after the fall, paper shortage, producing saltpeter, an appeal for ladies to volunteer to make cartridges, making salt, bad behavior by Texas soldiers in Texas, resettling Galveston refugees inland, a trip from Houston to Niblett's Bluff, a trip from Houston to Richmond back to Alexandria LA, prices, Piedmont Springs resort (near Navasota), Bryan's Texas Hospital in MS, pigs banished (and return) to the streets of Houston, civilian passports in Texas (including form), auctions, catnip in candles, homespun, gathering clothing to send to the front, cornmeal recipes, Hempstead quarantined, gardening and seeds, a snuff dipping young lady (and a double-fatality associated with snuff) (and a defense for dipping), cotton cards, the bombardment of Lavaca.
The rest of the Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 1863-1865, will follow within the next few weeks, time permitting.
Vicki Betts
vbetts@gower.net