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[Letter from Private H. C. Denny to Captain H. M. Bouldin, October 13, 1862]

Letter from Private H. C. Denny to Captain H. M. Bouldin. Denny wrote Bouldin about the movement of his group past the Arkansas line. He passed along a message from another soldier to be given to his wife and other small pieces of news, such as the price of corn back home.

Date: October 13, 1862

Creator: Denny, H. C.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Certificate of Voter Registration for John Patterson Osterhout]

Certificate of voter registration for John Patterson Osterhout in Austin county. Chief Justice of Austin county, C. B. Oney, testified that John fulfilled the oath of amnesty and John Campbell, county clerk, attested to the registration.

Date: October 31, 1865

Creator: Oney, C. B.

Item Type: Text

Partner: Austin College

[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 30, 1864]

Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout, discussing his time traveling with his oxen wagon. He and his companion, Jo, have had difficulties keeping the oxen in line and have been searching for the ones that have run off. On the route he has taken, he noticed a lot of cotton making its way to Mexico. He was asking around for the price of a bushel of wheat and because of the missing oxen, he was unable to purchase as much as he had planned. He closed his letter b… more

Date: October 30, 1864

Creator: Osterhout, John Patterson