Articles about Tyler and Smith County from assorted newspapers, 1863-1865

Articles about Tyler and Smith County from assorted newspapers, 1863-1865

Escape from Camp Ford!

Accounts by federal prisoners of war who tried to escape from Camp Ford, Texas, 1863-1865

Henderson [TX] Times, 1863-1865

Selections from the Henderson Times, published in Henderson, Texas, from the years 1863-1865

Marshall Texas Republican, 1863-1865

Selected articles from the Texas Republican, published in Marshall, Texas, from the years 1863-1865

Gilliland letters, 1863, 1865

Copies of 11 letters from Confederate soldier William Brasier Gilliland (1825-1863) to his wife Martha “Marthy” Jane Webb Gilliland (1827-1913) between April and September 1863, a letter from William’s brother, H. Franklin Gilliland (b. 1838), in 1865, and a record of weather from 1863. The letters mention briefly William and Franklin’s service but are mostly concerned with how Martha’s family was coping and expressing a strong desire to return home. It appears that William, and possibly Franklin too, could not write and thus dictated their letters home. See Appendix 6 of the finding aid for transcriptions. William Gilliland, the son of John and Sara Brasier Gilliland, was a farmer from Bennettsville, St. Clair County, Alabama, who with his wife Martha had five children: Sarah Jane (1845-1942), Nancy E. (1847-1933), John M. (1850-1939), James M. (1859-1934) and Lewis Franklin. William served in Company E of the 22nd Alabama Infantry, which was organized in Montgomery, Alabama, in November 1861. The regiment was sent to Mobile and then fought in the Battle of Shiloh. It later fought at Perryville and Murfreesboro. On September 20, 1863, the regiment was part of an assault on General Rosecrans’ army at Chickamauga and lost almost two-thirds of its men. William Gilliland was one of those who died that day. William’s brother, H. Franklin Gilliland (born 1838), enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 and later was in the 58th Alabama Infantry, serving in Companies A and H. After serving in Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, he was discharged from the army in April 1865.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-civilwar1/1022/thumbnail.jp

California Mountaineer Infantry. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, asking Congress to place the first battalion mountaineers, California infantry volunteers, on the same footing with other volunteer soldiers

Resolution of the California Legis. [1350] Bounty land for volunteers in suppressing Indian hostilities during 1863-1865

0096: Nimrod Mason Papers, 1863-1865

Logan County, West Virginia, native. Includes a list of members of the Seventh West Virginia Cavalry, discharge papers, and commission papers signed by Arthur Boreman and Francis Pierpont, first governors of West Virginia. To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Nimrod Mason Papers, 1863-1865 here

L. Guy Woollard journal, 1863-1865

Journal of Captain Leander Guy Woollard (1834-1874) of the 42nd Mississippi Regiment. The journal covers the period of June 25, 1861, to June 8, 1865. Pages 17-18 (November 13-December 19, 1863) and pages 29-32 (September 29-December 31, 1864) are missing. Page 36 finishes on April 3, 1865. The final, and unnumbered, page has one entry headed Fort Delaware, June 8, 1865. Woollard was captured at Gettysburg and then imprisoned at Johnsons Island in Lake Erie.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-lgwoollard1/1011/thumbnail.jp

Felix Pierre Poche Papers

Diary of a young Confederate Army officer kept 1863-1865, including eyewitness account of two 1864 battles in North Louisiana; after the War, Poche an attorney from St. James Parish, Louisiana, was elected a state senator and later an associate judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court.https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/manuscript-finding-aids/1136/thumbnail.jp