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I've just published files of articles from the
Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 1863
and
Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 1864
Information on flags, soldiers' homes, poppies, indigo, homespun, shoe factories, hat factories, textile production at the state penitentiary, jayhawkers, paper shortages, Indian raids, ladies banished from Vicksburg and New Orleans, trying to start a textile factory, Bibles for the troops, military libraries, making a blanket into a talma, fourteen year old boys making their way from Alabama to Texas through the blockade, medical purveyors, appeals for clothing, appeals for the poor, accounts of a long circular trip through Texas, a couple of accounts of fashions, lady soldiers, Unionists, cotton cards, Yankee prisoners, chubby women, haversacks, Texas school books, all sorts of fund raisers, Fort McKavett for sale, a Texas hoop factory, Clemson and the Bureau of Mines and Nitre, refugees, Sons of the South, and Mexican blankets.
Vicki Betts
vbetts@gower.net
Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 1863
and
Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 1864
Information on flags, soldiers' homes, poppies, indigo, homespun, shoe factories, hat factories, textile production at the state penitentiary, jayhawkers, paper shortages, Indian raids, ladies banished from Vicksburg and New Orleans, trying to start a textile factory, Bibles for the troops, military libraries, making a blanket into a talma, fourteen year old boys making their way from Alabama to Texas through the blockade, medical purveyors, appeals for clothing, appeals for the poor, accounts of a long circular trip through Texas, a couple of accounts of fashions, lady soldiers, Unionists, cotton cards, Yankee prisoners, chubby women, haversacks, Texas school books, all sorts of fund raisers, Fort McKavett for sale, a Texas hoop factory, Clemson and the Bureau of Mines and Nitre, refugees, Sons of the South, and Mexican blankets.
Vicki Betts
vbetts@gower.net