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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas Adjutant General's Department:

An Inventory of Civil War Records at the Texas State Archives, 1855, 1860-1866, undated (bulk 1861-1865)


Overview

Creator: Texas. Adjutant General's Dept.
Title: Civil War records
Dates: 1855, 1860-1866, undated
Dates: (bulk 1861-1865)
Abstract: These records include correspondence, military orders, monthly returns, records of the sick and wounded, reports of guards, morning reports, pay vouchers, reports and payrolls of hired persons, tax-in-kind records, and quartermaster records (contracts, vouchers, statements, estimates of funds required, receipts of public funds, and various abstracts). They comprise the Civil War-era records of the Texas State Troops (including Frontier Regiment and Mounted Regiment records); certain records of the Confederate States Army; and certain records of Union forces in Texas. Dates covered are 1855, 1860-1866 (bulk 1861-1865).
Quantity: 16.94 cubic ft.
Language English.

Agency History

After the annexation of Texas into the United States, the 1st Legislature provided for an Adjutant General to be appointed by the Governor, in "an Act to organize the Militia of the State of Texas" (April 21, 1846). The duties which fell to the Adjutant General included the issuance of all military orders; the maintenance of records of appointments, promotions, resignations, deaths, commissions, etc.; the receipt of monthly and annual returns, and muster rolls from the various military units; the keeping of the records of general courts martial; and recruitment and enrollment of Rangers and militiamen. The position of Adjutant General was itself reestablished by the Militia Law of February 14, 1860, by which act he also assumed the duties of Quartermaster General and Ordnance Officer of the State.

On February 1, 1861, the delegates to the Texas Secession Convention adopted an ordinance of secession, which was approved by the voters of the state on February 23. In early March the convention reassembled, declared Texas out of the Union, and adopted a measure making Texas one of the states in the newly formed Confederate States of America.

With the Civil War came the reorganization of the office, an act of December 25, 1861 creating an Adjutant and Inspector General, who would also serve as Quartermaster and Commissary General, and Ordnance Officer. Oversight of the 33 Brigades of the Texas State Troops plus the Frontier Regiment fell to this office, just as later Adjutants General would split their time between the Militia and the Rangers (whatever the prevailing terminology). The manpower and supply demands of the Confederate States Army, often conflicting with the needs and desires of the State of Texas, would affect the entire period of the war.

Most of the major battles of the Civil War were fought east of the Mississippi River. Ironically, the last battle of the war was a victory by John S. Ford over Union forces at Palmito Ranch near Brownsville on May 13, 1865, slightly more than a month after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. General E. Kirby Smith formally surrendered the Trans-Mississippi Department on June 2, and Union forces under General Gordon Granger entered Galveston on June 19, 1865.

Scope and Contents of the Records

These records include correspondence, military orders, monthly returns, records of the sick and wounded, reports of guards, morning reports, pay vouchers, reports and payrolls of hired persons, tax-in-kind records, and quartermaster records (contracts, vouchers, statements, estimates of funds required, receipts of public funds, and various abstracts). They comprise the Civil War-era records of the Texas State Troops (including Frontier Regiment and Mounted Regiment records); certain records of the Confederate States Army; and certain records of Union forces in Texas. Dates covered are 1855, 1860-1866 (bulk 1861-1865).

 

Organization of the Records

These records are organized into three series:
Texas State Troops records, 1861-1865, undated, 11.75 cubic ft. (7 subseries)
Confederate records, 1861-1865, undated, 4.9 cubic ft. (14 subseries)
Union Troops records, 1855, 1860-1866 (bulk 1863-1864), 0.29 cubic ft. (8 subseries)

Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

None.

Restrictions on Use

None.

Index Terms

The terms listed here were used to catalog the records. The terms can be used to find similar or related records.
Corporate Names:
Texas. State Troops.
Confederate States of America. Army.
Texas. Militia.
United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Subjects:
Quartermasters--Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Recruiting and enlistment--Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Draft registration--Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Taxation--Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Places:
Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Confederate States of America.
Document Types:
Correspondence--Texas--Military records--1860-1866.
Orders (military records)--Texas--1860-1866.
Returns (military records)--Texas--1860-1866.
Payrolls--Texas--Military records--1860-1866.
Reports--Texas--Military records--1860-1866.
Financial records--Texas--Military records--1860-1866.
Rosters--Texas--Military records--1860-1866.
Functions:
Protecting state.

Related Material

The following materials are offered as possible sources of further information on the agencies and subjects covered by the records. The listing is not exhaustive.

Texas State Archives
Texas Office of the Governor, Records of Sam Houston, 1824-1862 (bulk 1859-1861), 2.35 cubic ft.
Texas Office of the Governor, Records of Edward Clark, 1861, 1.19 cubic ft.
Texas Office of the Governor, Records of Francis R. Lubbock, 1861-1881 (bulk 1861-1863), 2.12 cubic ft.
Texas Office of the Governor, Records of Pendleton Murrah, 1863-1865, 1.65 cubic ft.
Texas State Military Board, Records, 1861-1865, 1955, 6.48 cubic ft.
Strays Collection, Military Board strays, 1860-1864, 0.24 cubic ft.
Texas Comptroller's Office, Civil War claims, Audited military claims (Texas State Troops), 1861-1865, 46.06 cubic ft. [often erroneously referred to as "Confederate" military claims]
Texas State Treasury Department [?], Register of military vouchers and warrants (and civil warrants drawn on military appropriations), 1862-1865, 0.38 cubic ft. [There is no finding aid available for this unprocessed record. Call number is Volume 2-1/677.]
Texas Adjutant General's Department, Departmental correspondence, Correspondence, 1846-1943 (bulk 1861-1933), 107.63 cubic ft.; and Letter books and letterpress books, 1861-1863 and 1871-1905, 10.54 cubic ft.
Texas Adjutant General's Department, Military rolls, Civil War military rolls, 1861-1865, 52.76 cubic ft.; and Army of the United States military rolls, 1860-1861, 1864-1865, 1.3 cubic ft.
Texas Adjutant General's Department, Service records, Texas State Troops service records, 1861-1865, 2.82 cubic ft.; and Confederate States Army service records, 1861-1865, 0.94 cubic ft.
Texas Adjutant General's Department, Reconstruction records, 1865-1873, undated, 7.87 cubic ft.
Texas Adjutant General's Department, Ranger records, 1839-1975, undated (bulk 1854-1918), 40.94 cubic ft.
Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
Ashbel Smith, Papers, 1823-1926, 10 ft. 7 in.
Publications
The Confederate Quartermaster in the Transmississippi, by James L. Nichols, 1964

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

(Identify the item and cite the series), Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Accession Information

Accession numbers: 1931/003, 1933/001, 1933/005

The Texas Adjutant General's Department transferred the vast majority of these records to the Texas State Archives on February 21, 1934. In addition, the Secretary of State transferred two volumes on November 5, 1931, and another volume on February 27, 1934.

Processing Information

Tony Black, October 1986, May 1988

Detailed Description of the Records

 

Texas State Troops records, 1861-1865, undated,
11.75 cubic ft.

These records consist of Brigade correspondence of Texas State Troops; correspondence concerning conscription; general, special, and circular orders of military entities (of both the State of Texas and the Confederate States of America); Ranger records of the Frontier Regiment and the Mounted Regiment, Texas State Troops; records of the sick and wounded; and quartermaster records (including both State of Texas Quartermasters and Confederate Quartermasters). They date 1861-1865, and undated.
Organization
These records are organized into seven subseries:
Brigade correspondence, 1861-1865, 1.88 cubic ft.
General information on brigades, 1861-1863, undated, fractional
Correspondence concerning conscription, 1862-1864, undated, 0.3 cubic ft.
Military orders, 1861-1865, 0.2 cubic ft.
Ranger records, 1861-1865, undated, 0.94 cubic ft.
Records of other sick, wounded, and dead, 1861-1863, fractional
Quartermaster records, 1861-1865, undated, 8.46 cubic ft. (2 sub-subseries)
Geographical Chart of Texas State Troops, 1861-1865

COUNTY BRIGADE
Anderson 11th
Angelina 3rd
Archer 21st
Atascosa 31st
Austin 23rd
Bandera 31st
Bastrop 26th
Baylor 21st
Bee 29th
Bell 27th
Bexar 30th
Blanco 31st
Bosque 28th
Bowie 7th
Brazoria 16th
Brazos 18th
Brown 28th
Burleson 18th
Burnet 27th
Caldwell 25th
Calhoun 24th
Callahan 28th
Cameron 32nd
Chambers 2nd
Cherokee 10th
Clay 21st
Coleman 28th
Collin 15th
Colorado 22nd
Comal 31st
Comanche 28th
Concho 31st
Cooke 21st
Coryell 28th
Dallas 13th
Davis 7th
Dawson 31st
Denton 21st
DeWitt 24th
Dimmitt 29th
Duval 32nd
Eastland 28th
Edwards 31st
El Paso 33rd
Ellis 19th
Encinal 32nd
Erath 20th
Falls 28th
Fannin 14th
Fayette 22nd
Fort Bend 16th
Freestone 19th
Frio 31st
Galveston 1st
Gillespie 31st
Goliad 29th
Gonzales 25th
Grayson 15th
Grimes 17th
Guadalupe 25th
Hamilton 28th
Hardeman 21st
Hardin 2nd
Harris 16th
Harrison 6th
Haskel 21st
Hays 26th
Henderson 13th
Hidalgo 32nd
Hill 28th
Hopkins 9th
Houston 11th
Hunt 14th
Jack 21st
Jackson 24th
Jasper 2nd
Jefferson 2nd
Johnson 20th
Jones 21st
Karnes 29th
Kaufman 13th
Kerr 31st
Kimble 31st
Kinney 31st
Knox 21st
La Salle 29th
Lamar 9th
Lampasas 27th
Lavaca 24th
Leon 18th
Liberty 2nd
Limestone 19th
Live Oak 29th
Llano 31st
Madison 18th
Marion 7th
Mason 31st
Matagorda 22nd
Maverick 31st
McCulloch 31st
McLennan 28th
McMullen 29th
Medina 31st
Menard 31st
Milam 27th
Montague 21st
Montgomery 17th
Nacogdoches 3rd
Navarro 19th
Newton 2nd
Nueces 29th
Orange 2nd
Palo Pinto 20th
Panola 4th
Parker 20th
Polk 2nd
Presidio 33rd
Red River 8th
Refugio 29th
Robertson 18th
Runnels 28th
Rusk 5th
Sabine 4th
San Augustine 3rd
San Patricio 29th
San Saba 31st
Shackelford 21st
Shelby 4th
Smith 12th
Starr 32nd
Stephens 21st
Tarrant 20th
Taylor 28th
Titus 8th
Travis 26th
Throckmorton 21st
Trinity 11th
Tyler 2nd
Upshur 6th
Uvalde 31st
Van Zandt 12th
Victoria 24th
Walker 17th
Washington 23rd
Webb 32nd
Wharton 22nd
Wichita 21st
Wilbarger 21st
Williamson 27th
Wilson 30th
Wise 21st
Wood 12th
Young 21st
Zapata 32nd
Zavala 31st
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item and cite the subseries), Texas State Troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession Information
Accession numbers: 1933/001
The Texas Adjutant General's Department transferred the vast majority of these records to the Texas State Archives on February 21, 1934.
Restrictions on Access
None.
Restrictions on Use
None.
Processed by
Tony Black, October 1986, May 1988
Brigade correspondence, 1861-1865,
1.88 cubic ft.
These records consist of items received by the Adjutant General, mostly from the Brigadier Generals commanding the 33 brigades of Texas State Troops, dating 1861-1865; plus a register of letters received (mostly brigade correspondence), 1862-1863. The majority of the items are either letters, or else poll books and certifications of elections of officers, but there are also quarterly regimental returns, some orders issued from brigade headquarters, a few petitions for exemption from military service, some bonds for assistant quartermasters of brigades, four reports of hired persons, and a handful of morning reports. Some of the earliest letters are addressed to the Secretary of State, and forwarded to the Adjutant General. Most of the letters received are labeled on the outside, e.g.:
  • "Brig. Gen. F. B. Sublett"
  • "San Augustine, March 2, 1862"
  • "In reference to the departure of men to the seat of war from his brigade, etc."
  • "3rd Brig."
The register of letters received, dating January 1862-November 1863, contains the following information, in three columns: the name and rank of the writer, the number of the brigade (or other organizational unit, e.g., Frontier Regiment, Quartermaster General, etc.), an item number, the place and date written, and the "purport" of the letter. If applicable, a further notation is placed next to the item number as to the disposition of the letter (e.g. "transmitted to Comptroller, March 17, 1863," or "deposited with the Secretary of State for safekeeping"). The total number of items listed in this register exceeds 4,000.
The researcher should also be aware that the Departmental correspondence series of the Adjutant General's records includes approximately 2.35 cubic ft. of correspondence covering the years 1861-1865, plus two volumes--the second of which is indexed--that contain copies of letters sent out by J. Y. Dashiell, Adjutant and Inspector General of Texas, between 1861 and 1863. Recipients of these letters include brigade officers, Ranger officers, county officials, and private citizens.
Arrangement
The correspondence is arranged numerically by brigade, and therein roughly chronologically. Arrangement of entries in the register of letters received is roughly alphabetical by first letter of the last name of the writer, and then numerical/chronological in the order received. (The numbers start over with each letter of the alphabet, so that an item number would be A-1, A-2, B-1, B-2, etc.)
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Brigade correspondence, Texas State Troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Brigade correspondence
box folder
401-825 1-2. 1st Brigade, 1861-1864
3-4. 2nd Brigade, 1861-1864
5. 3rd Brigade, 1861-1863
6. 4th Brigade, 1861-1863
7. 5th Brigade, 1861-1865
8-10. 6th Brigade, 1861-1864
11. 7th Brigade, 1861-1863
12-13. 8th Brigade, 1861-1864
14. 9th Brigade, 1861-1863
15. 10th Brigade, 1861-1864
16-17. 11th Brigade, 1861-1863
18. 12th Brigade, 1861-1864
19. 13th Brigade, 1861-1864
20-21. 14th Brigade, 1861-1864
box folder
401-826 1. 15th Brigade, 1861-1863
2. 16th Brigade, 1862-1863
3-6. 17th Brigade, 1861-1864
7. 18th Brigade, 1861-1863
8-9. 19th Brigade, 1861-1864
10. 20th Brigade, 1861-1863
11-12. 21st Brigade, 1861-1864
13-23. 22nd Brigade, 1861-1864
box folder
401-827 1-5. 23rd Brigade, 1861-1863
6-9. 24th Brigade, 1861-1864
10-13. 25th Brigade, 1861-1864
14-15. 26th Brigade, 1861-1864
16-19. 27th Brigade, 1861-1865
20-21. 28th Brigade, 1861-1864
box folder
401-828 1-6. 29th Brigade, 1861-1864
7-10. 30th Brigade, 1861-1864
11-19. 31st Brigade, 1861-1865
20. 32nd Brigade, 1862-1863
21. 33rd Brigade, 1862
22. Unidentified
volume
401-705A Register of letters received, 1862-1863
General information on brigades, 1861-1863, undated,
fractional
These records consist of nineteen items providing general information on brigades of the Texas State Troops, 1861-1863 and undated. The first group, all oversized, includes the following: an "Organization of the Texas State Militia" to November 23, 1861, listing the numbers of officers and men for each brigade; an abstract of troops reported to the Adjutant General under an act of December 25, 1861; a list of companies reported under the Governor's proclamation [1861]; a list of captains in the Frontier Regiment, with company letter and station (April 21, 1862); a list entitled "Information in regard to different brigades collated from correspondence in the office of the Adjutant and Inspector General" (ca. March 1863), that lists brigades, counties, camps, number of men called for, Brigadier General, post office, Colonels, Adjutant and Inspector Generals, and remarks; a list of companies raised in the different brigades of State Troops, with the date of their transfer to the Confederate States service (1863); and appointments of ordnance officers, matched with their counties and brigades (undated).
The second group includes: an "Abstract of Adjutant General Report" [1861]; a list of counties corresponding to the brigades; a partial list of Brigadier Generals with dates of their commissions (ca. September 1862); a register of resignations of Texas officers in Confederate States service, with name, rank, corps, and date of acceptance (1862-1863); a typescript list of Brigadier Generals of the Texas State Troops, with name, number of brigade, and counties composing the brigade (1864); a tabular statement showing the strength of the Texas State Troops, by rank (undated); a roster of officers, organized by regiment, with name, rank, and state (post-March 28, 1863); a list of company commanders in Colonel William C. Young's Regiment (undated); a list of appointments to the staff of Brigadier General J. D. McAdoo (undated); a list of Generals and Colonels with corresponding brigade and legions of the Confederate States Army (undated); a list of Texas Troops in the Armies of the Southern Confederacy (undated); and two unidentified indexes listing 54 companies.
Finally, there is an unidentified index, apparently to officers of the Texas State Troops and the Confederate States Army in Texas, containing the following types of entries: e.g., "Alexander, W. J., Lieutenant, AAQMTA 105, AAQMCA 106" [Acting Assistant Quartermaster Texas (or Confederate) Army?], or "Edgar, H. T., Captain, Company F, TA 11, CA 12."
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), General information on brigades, Texas State Troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
oversize folder
401-968 11. General information on brigades (oversized)
box folder
401-828 23. General information on brigades
23A. Blank forms
box folder
401-1234 19. Index to officers of Texas Army and Confederate Army
Correspondence concerning conscription, 1862-1864, undated,
0.3 cubic ft.
These records consist mainly of petitions for exemption from state military service, as well as certificates of disability, certificates of substitution, surgeon's reports, protests of exemptions, requests for opinions on the conscript law, depositions of interrogations on conscription, a monthly return of citizens relieved from military duty, and a couple of lists of able-bodied men. Dates covered are 1862-1864, and undated.
Although some of the petitions are addressed to the appropriate brigadier general, the adjutant general, the chief justice of the county, or the county court, most are addressed to the Governor, who in turn may have forwarded them on to the Adjutant General's office. Notations occasionally say "Received from Governor [date]," or "Approved [date, name of General, Brigade], Texas State Troops." Other notations simply give dates received and answered, possibly by the Governor himself; these same types of notations appear on those petitions for exemption found in the records of Governors Lubbock and Murrah (which the researcher should also consult). It is unknown why some petitions are found in one record group, and some in another.
Arrangement
These items are arranged roughly chronologically, by month and year.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Correspondence concerning conscription, Texas State Troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Correspondence concerning conscription
box folder
401-829 1-4. 1862
5-10. 1863
11-14. 1864
15-16. undated
Military orders, 1861-1865,
0.2 cubic ft.
These records consist of General Orders, Special Orders, and Circulars issued by the various military authorities of the state of Texas, and by those of the Confederacy relating to military affairs within Texas (and presumably collected by the Texas Adjutant General). They date 1861-1865. These orders include both printed and holographic documents. The largest single group of orders, approximately one-fifth of the total, were generated by the Headquarters of the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The Adjutant and Inspector General of the Confederate War Department in Richmond, Virginia, issued approximately 40 orders; and an equal number emanated from the State of Texas' Adjutant and Inspector General. Among the wide variety of other headquarters issuing orders, sometimes only a handful each, were: the Trans-Mississippi District, the Rio Grande Military District, the Western Department, the Department of Texas, the Headquarters of Troops in Texas, the Eastern Sub-District of Texas, the District of the Indian Territory, the Chief of the Commissary/Subsistence Office, the Conscript Service of the District of Texas, the Commandant of Negro Labor, the Reserve Corps of the State of Texas, McCulloch's Division, Walker's Division, Ringgold Barracks, Camp Colorado, and perhaps a dozen others. Because of the possibility of misidentification due to variant terminology and overlapping of jurisdictions, no attempt has been made to arrange the orders by issuing office (except for the Frontier Regiment; see Ranger records, 1861-1865), or even to separate those produced by the state from those produced by the Confederacy. Instead, a roughly chronological order (by month and year) has been adhered to.
Furthermore, no separation into General Orders, Special Orders, and Circulars has been made, since overlapping functions would render such an artificial division misleading. Normally, Special Orders concern specific individuals (e.g., "Captain J. F. Winter will proceed to Artillery Camp...," or "Captain John King will receive and account for 10,000 pounds of flour....") General Orders as a rule deal with broader matters (e.g., "Division and Brigade Inspectors will bear in mind that it is their especial duty to report any disobedience of orders...," or "All exemptions from military impressment of negroes made by the Cotton Bureau prior to this date are hereby sanctioned...") Circulars are usually the most general of all (e.g., "The following decisions of the Secretary of War are published for the information of all concerned....").
Extra (i.e., multiple) copies of printed orders have been removed and are located separately. These date from 1862 and 1863, and were issued mostly by the Adjutant General of Texas or the Headquarters of the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The most extreme example of duplication is an order dated December 11, 1862, of which approximately 85 extra copies are on file.
Arrangement
These records are arranged roughly chronologically.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Military orders, Texas State Troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Military orders
box folder
401-829 17. 1861
18-20. 1862
21-24. 1863
25-27. 1864
28. 1865
Multiple copies of military orders
box folder
401-828 24. January-June 1862
25. December 1862
26. June-August 1863
Ranger records, 1861-1865, undated,
0.94 cubic ft.
These records consist of correspondence, regimental poll books, court martial proceedings, general and special orders, monthly returns, powers of attorney, payrolls and reports of extra-duty men and hired persons, returns of medical officers and hospital payrolls, lists of arrests, hospital morning reports, reports of the sick and wounded, and returns of deceased soldiers. They comprise the records of the Frontier Regiment, the Mounted Regiment of Texas State Troops that apparently superseded it, and the three Frontier Districts in Texas, dating 1861-1865, and undated.
The Ranger correspondence consists of letters received by and sent to various officers of the Frontier Regiment, the Mounted Regiment, and the three Frontier Districts. Also included are assorted items such as petitions to the Governor recommending officers for the Frontier Regiment (December 1861); officers' oaths of loyalty to Texas and to the Confederacy; certificates of discharge, of disability, and of furloughs; a bond for a Ranger Quartermaster; an agreement to serve at Camp Breckenridge, signed by 68 men (January 12, 1863); a list of 112 privates signing an oath of allegience, Company D of the Frontier Regiment (March 5, 1862); and so forth. Folder 1 contains copies of correspondence (in one continuous list) between Governor Sam Houston, his aide-de-camp Colonel W. C. Dalrymple, and the various Ranger captains (January-June 1861).
The Regimental poll "books" are lists of elections for field officers for the Frontier Regiment (also called Mounted State Troops), for December 1862 and January-March 1863.
The Court martial proceedings include charges, testimony, supporting documents, verdict, and sentence of two general courts martial of the Frontier Regiment: one at Camp San Saba (April 29-May 27, 1862) of Private John W. Anderson, Private E. W. Greenwood, Lieutenant W. F. Robison, Private Robert Caviniss, Private W. A. Smith, Private William Rainbolt, and Private Elija Modgling; and a later one (August 18-September 9, 1862) at Camp Collier, of Private Benjamin H. Knowles, Captain J. J. Cureton, Sergeant L. P. Strong, Sergeant J. H. Chrisman, plus Lieutenant Robinson and Privates Caviniss, Rainbolt, Smith, Modgling, and Greenwood once again.
There are Military orders for the Frontier Regiment, the Mounted Regiment (Texas State Troops), and the three Frontier Districts, between February 1862 and December 1864. The following orders are apparently missing: General Orders 7, 9, 10, 11, 20, 21, 26 (for 1862), 13, 14, 15, 17, and 20 (for 1863); and Special Orders 34, 35, 38, 42, 51, 52, 74-78, 110, 111, 116 (for 1862), 125, 130, 2, 14-18, 47-56, 66 (for 1863), 93, 94, 99, 100, and 101 (for 1864).
The Monthly returns consist of Frontier/Mounted Regiment monthly returns on the company level (March-October 1862, and February, May, and August 1863) as well as on the regimental level (April 1862-December 1863), and for the 1st Frontier District (June 1864). The returns are detailed tallies of the numbers of officers and men present, absent, in arrest, sick, on extra duty, with and without leave, on detached service, deserted, missing in action, transferred, reenlisted, promoted, resigned, died of diseases/wounds, and discharged (by civil authority, by order, by sentence of a general court martial, for disability, and for expiration of service). Also included on the return are lists of men absent and on extra duty, of commissioned officers, and of enlisted men whose status has changed since the last return.
There are Powers of attorney executed by various soldiers, mainly for the purpose of collecting from the State of Texas all moneys owed for services as Rangers. The first four folders each contain multiple powers of attorney for individuals, with David Stiff of Collin County holding the largest number--at least 30, mostly from soldiers in Colonel William C. Young's Regiment.
The Reports and payrolls of hired persons consist of reports of persons (and articles) hired by Ranger quartermasters (and some commissaries of subsistence), and pay rolls of extra duty men (non-commissioned officers and enlisted men hired to do additional work).
There are Contracts made by physicians who agreed to serve as medical officers in Camps Colorado, Breckenridge, Salmon, San Saba, and Belknap, Red River Station, and Fort Arbuckle in Indian Territory (1861-1863).
Returns were filed of medical officers of the Mounted Regiment, Texas State Troops, at Camp Brunson (April-September 1863) and at Red River Station (July-October 1863); only the company surgeon is listed in each of these monthly returns.
There are Hospital payrolls, including a mustering-out and payroll of steward, wardmaster, cooks, nurses, matrons, and detached soldiers sick in the hospital at Ringgold Barracks, Army of the State of Texas, Rio Grande Military District (March-September 1861); a muster roll of the Hospital Department at Camp Colorado (June-October 1863); and rolls of extra-duty men in the hospital at Camp Colorado (August-December 1863), Camp Cooper (August 1863), and Camp Davis (November 1863).
There is one oversized List of arrests reported by an unnamed Ranger organization, after July 1, 1984. The information on the report includes names of those arrested, organization, where taken, by whom, date, where sent, and to whom turned over.
Hospital morning reports were made by surgeons of the Frontier Regiment for Camp Belknap (Company G), Camp Brunson (Company C), Camp Davis (Company A), Camp Verde (Company B), and Red River Station (Company D), between April 1863 and February 1864. Each is a daily tally (accumulated monthly) of the number of men in hospital, in quarters, taken sick, returned to duty, discharged, sent to the general hospital, and died, plus remarks.
Monthly and quarterly Reports were made of the sick and wounded soldiers of the Frontier Regiment at Camps Breckenridge and Cooper, Camp Brunson, Camp Salmon, and Red River Station (second and third quarters of 1863). These reports tally the numbers of cases and deaths for each class of diseases, and for each specific disease. In addition, the sick and wounded soldiers at Camp Brunson (second quarter, 1863) are listed by name.
Finally, there are two quarterly Returns of deceased soldiers of Company G of the Texas Frontier Regiment, at Camps Pecan and Collier (third quarter, 1862), and at Camp Colorado (fourth quarter, 1862), and of the 4th Battalion of State Cavalry at Sabine Post (fourth quarter, 1863).
Arrangement
These records are arranged in various ways, depending on the type of document. Ranger correspondence is roughly chronological. Regimental poll books and court martial proceedings are chronological. Military orders are arranged first by type of order (General and Special), and therein numerically--which is to say chronologically. Monthly returns are arranged alphabetically by company, regimental returns chronologically. Reports of hired persons are arranged alphabetically by camp or fort.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Ranger records, Texas State Troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Ranger correspondence
box folder
401-830 1-3. 1861
4. 1862
5. 1863
6. 1864-1865, undated
Ranger regimental poll books
box folder
401-830 7. December 1862
8. January-March 1863
Court martial proceedings
box folder
401-830 9. Camp San Saba, 1862
10. vs. Pvt. Benjamin H. Knowles, 1862
11. vs. Capt. J. J. Cureton, 1862
12. vs. Pvt. Robert Caviniss, Pvt. William Rainbolt, Pvt. W. A. Smith, Pvt. E. Modgling, and Lt. W. F. Robinson, 1862
13. vs. Sgt. L. P. Strong, 1862
14. vs. Sgt. J. H. Chrisman and Pvt. E. W. Greenwood, 1862
General Orders
box folder
401-830 15. 1862
16. 1863-1864
17. March and December 1864
Special Orders
box folder
401-830 18. February-June 1862
19. July-September 1862
20. October-December 1862
21. Miscellaneous, 1862
22. January 1863
23. March-August 1863
24. September-December 1863
25. (miscellaneous), 1863
26. January-February 1864
27. Duplicate orders re courts martial, 1862
Monthly returns
box folder
401-831 1. Companies A and B, 1862-1863
2. Companies D, E, and F, 1862-1863
3. Companies G, H, and I, 1862-1863
4. 1st Frontier District, June 1864
Regimental returns
map-case folder
401-1320 1. April, June-October, December 1862
2. January, March-August, October-December 1863
Powers of attorney
box folder
401-831 5. David Stiff
6. J. J. Keith
7. John Salmon
8. James Paul
9. Others, 1861-1862
10. Others, 1863
Reports of hired persons
box folder
401-831 11. Austin: Ranger Quartermaster
12. Austin: Ranger Commissary of Subsistence
13. Brazos Santiago
14. Camp Bandera
15. Camp Colorado
16. Camp Dix
17. Camp Frio
18. Camp McCord
19. Camp San Saba
20. Camp Verde, 1861
21. Camp Verde, 1862
22. Camp Verde, January-March 1863
23. Camp Verde, September-December 1863
24. Camp Wood
25. Fort Chadbourne
26. Fort Clark
27. Fort Inge, 1861
28. Fort Inge, 1863-1864
29. Fort Lancaster
30. Fort Mason
31. Fort Stockton
32. Indianola
33. Red River Station, 1862-1863
34. Red River Station, 1863-1864
35. Rio Grande Military District: Lieutenant Paschal
36. Captain Reynolds
37. Others (Rusk, and in-the-field)
Other Ranger records
box folder
401-831 38. Contracts of medical officers, 1861-1863
39. Returns of medical officers, 1863
40. Hospital payrolls, 1861, 1863
41. Hospital morning reports, 1863-1864
42. Reports of sick and wounded, 1863
43. Returns of deceased soldiers, 1862-1863
Records of other sick, wounded, and dead, 1861-1863,
fractional
These consist of various records of sick, wounded, and dead soldiers (other than Rangers), 1861-1863.
One item is a copy of the Register of the Texas General Hospital at Quitman, Mississippi, for September through November 1862, with a duplicate for the month of September. This register lists 469 soldiers by name, rank, regiment, company, disease, when admitted, when returned to duty or died, county, and post office. In addition there is a supplemental list of 29 soldiers belonging to Texas commands deceased at the Texas General Hospital at Quitman, Mississippi (September 1, 1862-September 1, 1863); this list gives name, rank, company, regiment, date of death, disease, and amount of money left.
Also included are four lists of casualties. There are two oversized lists of deaths in the 1st and 5th Regiments Texas Infantry (1861-1862), listing date, name, rank, company, cause of death, place of death, and remarks. There is a list of soldiers killed, wounded, missing, and died of disease or privation from the 5th Texas at Gaines' Mill, Virginia (June 27, 1862). Finally, there is a photostat and transcript from the Ashbel Smith Papers at the University of Texas, of casualties in the 2nd Regiment, Texas Volunteer Infantry at Vicksburg.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Records of other sick, wounded, and dead, Texas State Troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
box folder
401-831 44. Register, Texas General Hospital, Quitman, Mississippi, 1862-1863
45. Lists of casualties, Gaines Mill, Virginia and Vicksburg, 1862-1863
oversize folder
401-968 11. Deaths, 1st and 5th Regiments, Texas Infantry, 1861-1862
Quartermaster records, 1861-1865, undated,
8.46 cubic ft.
These records consist of quartermaster returns, and other quartermaster records (requisitions, ordnance returns, and medical returns for the various State of Texas quartermasters, and also for the various Confederate quartermasters who operated in and for Texas; state vouchers, articles of agreement, statements, estimates of funds required, receipts of public funds, various abstracts, and reports and payrolls of hired persons, all strictly for the State of Texas). The records date 1861-1865, and undated.
Organization
These records are organized into two sub-subseries:
Quartermaster returns, 1861-1865, undated, 4.23 cubic ft.
Other state quartermaster records, 1861-1865, undated, 4.23 cubic ft.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item and cite the subseries), Quartermaster records, Texas State Troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Quartermaster returns, 1861-1865, undated,
4.23 cubic ft.
These records consist of monthly and quarterly returns of quartermaster's stores, subsistence stores, provisions, clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, plus the supporting documents that accompanied those returns: receipts and abstracts; inventories, lists, and invoices; certificates of loss and wastage; and so forth. They date 1861-1865, and undated. Returns of ordnance and ordnance stores, and of medicines and hospital stores, are described separately. And since the quartermaster returns account for all supplies "received, issued, and remaining on hand," requisitions are not included; nor are vouchers, both of which are described separately.
Because of confusion and overlapping of jurisdictions, no attempt has been made to separate Texas state quartermaster returns from those of the Confederacy. Many of the records, especially those pertaining to Austin, San Antonio, and the various depots, are probably Confederate tax-in-kind records; but unless specifically identified as such, they are not included in the tax-in-kind group of Confederate records. Of those returns that are not identified by location, a majority are probably either from in the field or from the various quartermasters' headquarters in Austin or San Antonio.
"Provisions" include mostly foodstuffs: bacon, fresh beef, flour, sugar, salt, soap, peas, corn meal, wheat, hard bread, beans, rice, coffee, vinegar, candles, etc. "Quartermaster stores" include: fuel, forage, straw, stationery, barrack/hospital/office furniture, public animals, harness, and other means of transportation, building materials, veterinary tools, blacksmith's tools, carpenter's tools, wheelwright's tools, mason's and bricklayer's tools, miscellaneous tools for fatigue and garrison purposes, and "stores for expenditure" such as iron, steel, horseshoes, rope, etc.
More than one-fourth of these records originated in the various headquarters in Austin, 1861-1865. About one-half originated in the frontier installations that stretched along three major lines: the Rio Grande Military District from Ft. McIntosh (near Laredo) to Ft. Brown (near Brownsville); the line of captured federal forts extending through West Texas from below the Big Bend to Ft. Bliss; and the posts--some of them captured federal posts, some of them established for the Frontier Regiment under James M. Norris--stretching through the center of the state from Red River Station to Ft. Duncan (near Eagle Pass on the Rio Grande). A significant number of these records reveal supplies surrendered to the state of Texas by the United States Army in the spring of 1861. A relatively small number of records, grouped after those of San Antonio, come from about three dozen other sites in the state; some of these sites were quartermaster depots and/or munitions factories, others were training camps or temporary headquarters for state and/or Confederate troops. Quite often, a location is represented by only one or two documents. Finally, a handful of documents come from sites outside Texas, in Arkansas, Arizona Territory, Indian Territory, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Missouri.
The following charts indicate the Texas locations that are represented by these and succeeding quartermaster records.
  • Frontier Posts (* indicates stations of the Frontier Regiment):
    • Camp Bandera (Bandera County)
    • *Camp Belknap (Young County, consolidated with Fort Belknap in March 1864)
    • *Camp Breckenridge (Stephens County, consolidated with Fort Belknap, March 1864)
    • Camp Brunson (see Red River Station)
    • *Camp Collier (Brown County)
    • Camp Colorado (Coleman County)
    • Camp Cooper (Throckmorton County)
    • *Camp Davis (Gillespie County)
    • *Camp Dix (Uvalde County, consolidated with Fort Belknap in March 1864)
    • Camp Frio (Rio Frio, Real County?)
    • Camp Hudson (Val Verde County)
    • *Camp McMillan (San Saba County)
    • *Camp Pecan (Callahan County)
    • *Camp Salmon (Eastland/Callahan Counties)
    • *Camp San Saba (McCulloch County)
    • *Camp Verde (Kerr County)
    • *Camp Wood (Real County)
    • Fort Belknap (Young County)
    • Fort Bliss (El Paso County)
    • Fort Chadbourne (Coke County)
    • Fort Clark (Kinney County)
    • Fort Davis (Jeff Davis County)
    • *Fort Duncan (Maverick County)
    • Fort Inge (Uvalde County)
    • Fort Lancaster (Crockett County)
    • Fort McKavett (Menard County)
    • Fort Mason (Mason County)
    • Forst Stockton (Pecos County)
    • Hubbard's Creek Station/Camp on Hubbard's Creek
    • Old Comanche Agency (near Camp Cooper)
    • Phantom Hill (Jones County)
    • *Red River Station (Montague County, near Camp Brunson)
  • Rio Grande Military District:
    • Brazos Santiago (Cameron County)
    • Brownsville (Cameron County)
    • Camp Carricitas (Cameron County)
    • Fort Brown (Cameron County)
    • Fort McIntosh (Webb County, near Laredo)
    • Laredo (Webb County)
    • Point Isabel (Cameron County)
    • Resaca de la Palma (Cameron County)
    • Resaca de la Veajo (?)
    • Ringgold Barracks (Starr County)
    • Roma (Starr County, in Brazos Santiago Subdistrict)
  • Other Sites:
    • (1) = 1st Military Sub-District (Galveston)
    • (2) = 2nd Military Sub-District (Eastern Texas)
    • (3) = 3rd Military Sub-District (Central Texas)
    • (4) = 4th Military Sub-District (Southern Texas)
    • (5) = 5th Military Sub-District (Northern Texas)
    • Austin (Travis County; Quartermaster Depot; Percussion Cap Factory) (4)
    • Bastrop (Bastrop County; Rifle Factory) (3)
    • Belton (Bell County) (4)
    • Bonham (Fannin County; Quartermaster Depot) (5)
    • Brenham (Washington County; Quartermaster Depot) (3)
    • Buchanan (Johnson County) (5)
    • Burnet (Burnet County) (4)
    • Caldwell (Burleson County) (3)
    • Caldwell County (3)
    • Cameron (Milam County) (3)
    • Camp Arkansas Springs, near Austin (Travis County) (4)
    • Camp Beauregard (Ellis County) (5)
    • Camp Bee (Guadalupe County) (3)
    • Camp Darnell (Dallas County) (5)
    • Camp Easley (Williamson County) (4)
    • Camp Flournoy (Wood County) (5)
    • Camp Gladson (Falls County) (3)
    • (Camp on) Green Lake (Calhoun County) (2)
    • Camp Hebert (Waller County) (2)
    • Camp Kirby (Galveston County) (1)
    • Camp Lockridge, near Austin (Travis County) (4)
    • Camp Lubbock (Harris County) (2)
    • Camp McCulloch (McLennan County) (4)
    • Camp McCulloch, near San Antonio (Bexar County) (4)
    • Camp near Plano (Collin County) (5)
    • Camp on Caney (Matagorda County?) (2)
    • Camp Randle (Washington County) (3)
    • Camp Reeves (Grayson County) (5)
    • Camp Sidney Johnson (Chambers County) (2)
    • Camp Tarrant (Ellis County) (5)
    • Camp Terry (Travis County) (4)
    • Camp Van Dorn (either Bexar County, or Harris County) (4)
    • Camp Walton (Collin County) (5)
    • Castroville (Medina County) (4)
    • Chambers Creek (Ellis County) (5)
    • Chappell Hill (Washington County) (3)
    • Clarksville (Red River County) (5)
    • Columbus (Colorado County; Quartermaster Depot) (3)
    • Corsicana (Navarro County; Quartermaster Depot) (5)
    • Dallas (Dallas County; Quartermaster Depot) (5)
    • Decatur (Wise County; HQ for 1st Frontier District) (5)
    • Edinburg (Hidalgo County) (4)
    • Farmington (Grayson County) (5)
    • Fort Hebert (Galveston County) (1)
    • Fredericksburg (Gillespie County; Percussion Cap Factory; HQ for 2nd and 3rd Frontier Districts) (4)
    • Georgetown (Williamson County) (4)
    • Gilmer (Upshur County) (5)
    • Hallettsville (Lavaca County) (3)
    • Harrisburg (Harris County) (2)
    • Helena (Karnes County) (4)
    • Hempstead (Waller County; Quartermaster Depot) (2)
    • Home Creek (Coleman County) (4)
    • Hondo (Medina County) (4)
    • Houston (Harris County; Quartermaster Depot; Percussion Cap Factory) (2)
    • Huntsville (Walker County) (2)
    • Indianola (Calhoun County; Quartermaster Depot) (4)
    • Jack County (5)
    • Kentucky Town (Grayson County) (5)
    • LaGrange (Fayette County) (3)
    • Lampasas (Lampasas County) (4)
    • Lockhart (Caldwell County) (3)
    • Meridian (Bosque County) (5)
    • Milford (Ellis County) (5)
    • Millican (Brazos County; Quartermaster Depot) (2)
    • Mosley's Ferry (Burleson County) (3)
    • Palo Pinto County (5)
    • Paris (Lamar County) (5)
    • Plano (Collin County) (5)
    • Port Sullivan (Milam County) (3)
    • Porters Bluff = Taos (Navarro County) (5)
    • Refugio (Refugio County) (4)
    • Richmond (Fort Bend County) (2)
    • Round Rock (Williamson County) (4)
    • Round Top (Fayette County) (3)
    • Rutersville (Fayette County) (3)
    • San Antonio (Bexar County; Quartermaster Depot; Percussion Cap Factory) (4)
    • San Marcos (Hays County) (4)
    • Seguin (Guadalupe County) (3)
    • Sherman (Grayson County; Quartermaster Depot) (5)
    • Stephenville (Erath County) (5)
    • Taos = Porters Bluff (Navarro County) (5)
    • Tonkaway Agency (Young County)
    • Union Hill (Washington County) (3)
    • Victoria (Victoria County; Quartermaster Depot) (3)
    • Waco (McLennan County; Quartermaster Depot) (4)
    • Waxahachie (Ellis County; Powder Mill) (5)
    • Weston (Collin County) (5)
    • Wharton County (3)
  • Location Uncertain:
    • Camp Ada (?)
    • Camp Barry (?)
    • Camp Big Spring (?)
    • Camp Bogden (?)
    • Camp Clark (Fort Bend or Guadalupe County?)
    • Camp Concha (?)
    • Camp Dashiell, near Austin (?)
    • Camp Feldens (?)
    • Camp Hardeman (Central Texas)
    • Camp Jackson (possibly Jim Wells, Montgomery, Kleberg, Montague, or Washington Counties)
    • Camp Locke (?)
    • Camp McCord (see Camp Verde)
    • Camp San Pedro (?)
    • Camp Stonewall Jackson (?)
    • Camp near Webur Falls (?)
    • Elm Creek Station (?) (near Fort Belknap?)
    • King's Plantation (?)
    • Leonville (?)
    • Mathers Mill (?)
Arrangement
These records are arranged alphabetically by camp/fort/depot/station, and chronological therein.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Quartermaster returns, Quartermaster records, Texas State Troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Quartermaster returns: major sites in Texas
box folder
401-832 1. Austin, 1861
2-6. Austin, 1862
7-13. Austin, January-June 1863
14-21. Austin, July-December 1863
box folder
401-833 1-5. Austin, January-March 1864
6-10. Austin, April-June 1864
11-18. Austin, July-September 1864
19-21. Austin, October-December 1864
box folder
401-834 1-6. Austin, January-May 1865
7-11. Brazos Santiago, 1861
12. Brownsville, 1863
13. Camp Ada, 1861
13. Camp Bandera, 1862
13. Camp Barry, 1863
14. Camp Beauregard, 1861
14. Camp Bee, 1862
15. Camp Belknap, 1863-1864
16. Camp Breckenridge, 1863
17. Camp Brunson, 1863-1864
18-24. Camp Colorado, 1861
25. Camp Colorado, 1862
26-28. Camp Colorado, January-June 1863
box folder
401-835 1-3. Camp Colorado, July-December 1863
4-5. Camp Colorado, 1864
6. Camp Concha, 1861
7-10. Camp Cooper, 1861
11. Camp Cooper, 1862-1863
12. Camp Darnell, 1863
13. Camp Dashiell, 1863
14. Camp Davis, 1862-1863
15-16. Camp Dix, 1862-1864 (bulk 1863)
17. Camp Flournoy, 1861
18. Camp Frio, 1862-1863 (bulk 1862)
19. Camp on Green Lake, 1861
20. Camp near Georgetown, 1861
20. Camp Hardeman, 1864
21-24. Camp Hudson, 1861
25. Camp Jackson, 1861
26. Camp Hebert, 1861
26. Camp Kerbey, 1861
26. Camp on the Leona, 1863
26. Camp Locke, 1861
26. Camp Lubbock, 1863
27. Camp Lockridge, 1862-1863
28. Camp McCord, 1862, 1864
28. Camp McMillan, 1863
29. Camp McCulloch, 1863
30. Camp Randle, 1863
31. Camp Reeves, 1861
box folder
401-836 1. Camp San Saba, 1862-1864 (bulk 1864)
2. Camp Terry, 1862
3. Camp Tarrant, 1861
3. Camp Van Dorn, 1861
4-5. Camp Verde, March-June 1861
6-8. Camp Verde, April-December 1862
9. Camp Verde, January-May 1863
10-11. Camp Verde, September-December 1863
12. Camp Verde, 1864
13-14. Camp Wood, 1861
15. Decatur, 1864
16-17. Decatur, 1865
18. Elm Creek Station, 1861
19. Fort Belknap, 1861-1862, 1864
20. Fort Bliss, 1861
21-23. Fort Brown, 1861
24-25. Fort Chadbourne, 1861-1862 (bulk 1861)
box folder
401-837 1-2. Fort Clark, March-May 1861
3. Fort Clark, June 1861, December 1862
4-5. Fort Davis, 1861
6. Fort Duncan, 1861
7. Fort Hebert, 1862
8-9. Fort Inge, March-August 1861
10-11. Fort Inge, October-December 1863
12-13. Fort Inge, 1864
14-15. Fort Lancaster, 1861
16-19. Fort McIntosh, 1861
20. Fort McIntosh, 1862
21. Fort McKavitt, 1861
22-25. Fort Mason, 1861
box folder
401-838 1-3. Fort Mason, 1862
4-6. Fort Stockton, 1861
7. Fredericksburg, 1861-1865 (bulk 1864-1865)
8-9. Hubbard's Creek Station, 1861
10-12. Indianola, 1861
13. Laredo, 1861-1862
14. Phantom Hill, 1861
15-17. Red River Station, 1862
18-19. Red River Station, 1863
20. Red River Station, 1864
21. Ringgold Barracks, 1861
22-24. Rio Grande Military District, March-June 1861
25. Rio Grande Military District, January-March 1862
26. Roma, 1861, 1863 (bulk 1861)
26. Rio Grande City, 1863, 1865
box folder
401-839 1. San Antonio, February 1861
2. San Antonio, March 1861
3-4. San Antonio, April 1861
5-6. San Antonio, May 1861
7. San Antonio, June-September 1861
8. San Antonio, August-November 1862
9. San Antonio, 1863
10. San Antonio, 1864-1865 (bulk 1864)
10A. Tonkaway Agency, 1864-1865
Quartermaster returns: other sites in Texas
box folder
401-839 11. Belknap, 1863
11. Belton, 1864
12. Bonham, 1863
12. Brenham, 1864
12. Buchanan, 1863
13. Cameron, 1864
14. Caldwell, 1864
14. Chappell Hill, 1864
15. Clarksville, 1862
15. Corpus Christi, 1863
16. Columbus, 1863-1864
17. Dallas, 1861, 1863
18. Gilmer, 1863
19. Galveston, 1863
19. Harrisburg, 1861, 1863-1864
20. Hempstead, 1861-1864
21. Helena, 1864
21. Home Creek, 1861
21. Houston, 1865
21. Huntsville, 1863-1864
22. King's Plantation, 1864
22. Lampasas, 1861-1862, 1864
23. McKinney, 1863
23. Marshall, 1863
23. Mathers Mill, 1861
23. Millican, 1864
24. Paris, 1863-1864
25. Plano, 1861
25. Richmond, 1863
25. Round Rock, 1864
26. Rusk, 1863
26. Seguin, 1864
26. Stephenville, 1861, 1864
27. Sherman, 1861
28. Taos/Porters Bluff, 1861
29. Waco, 1863-1864
30. Waxahachie, 1861
31. Counties: Burleson, 1864
31. Caldwell, 1864
31. Fort Bend, 1863
31. Jack, 1861
31. Wharton, 1864
31. Williamson, undated
Quartermaster returns: sites outside Texas
box folder
401-839 32. Arkansas: Camp Nelson, 1862
33. Arkansas: Fort Smith, 1862
34. Arkansas: Other sites, 1862
35. Arizona Territory: Fort Filmore, 1861
35. Indian Territory: Cantonment Davis, 1862
35. Indian Territory: Council Ground, 1865
35. Indian Territory: Fort Cobb, 1861
36. Louisiana: New Orleans, 1861
37. Louisiana: Monroe, 1863
37. Louisiana: Shreveport, 1864-1865
38. Mississippi: Jackson, 1862
38. Mississippi: Vicksburg, 1862
38. Mississippi: other sites, 1862
39. Alabama: Montgomery, 1863, undated
39. Tennessee: Nashville, 1861
39. Tennessee: Trenton, 1862
40. Missouri, 1861
Quartermaster returns: location uncertain
box folder
401-839 41. 1861-1862, 1864
Quartermaster returns: location not given
box folder
401-840 1. January-February 1861
2-4. March 1861
5. April 1861
6. May 1861
7-8. June 1861
9. July-September 1861
10-11. October-December 1861
12. January-June 1862
13. July-December 1862
14. January-March 1863
15. April-June 1863
16. July-December 1863
17. January-March 1864
18. April-June 1864
19. July-September 1864
20. October-December 1864
21. January-March 1865
22-23. undated
Other state quartermaster records, 1861-1865, undated,
4.23 cubic ft.
These records consist of requisitions, ordnance returns, medical returns, state vouchers, articles of agreement, state of Texas statements, estimates of state funds required, receipts of state public funds, various state abstracts, pay vouchers, and reports and payrolls of hired men. They comprise the other quartermaster records (exclusive of quartermaster returns) of the State of Texas, dating 1861-1865, and undated.
The Requisitions are mainly forage requisitions, but also requisitions for fuel, stationery, subsistence stores, clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and special requisitions, for both state and Confederate military organizations. Requisitions for ordnance and medical stores are found with their respective returns.
There are Returns of ordnance and ordnance stores, plus all the supporting documents that accompanied those returns: receipts, abstracts, and vouchers; inventories, lists, and invoices; plus requisitions and accounts pertaining to ordnance. The researcher should note that returns for Austin, Decatur, and Fredericksburg all contain many receipts of ordnance for the various counties' ordnance officers.
The Medical returns consist of returns (mainly quarterly) of medicines, instruments, hospital stores, and hospital furniture received, issued, and remaining on hand at various military camps in the state, plus supporting documents; also, requisitions for medicines and hospital stores. In addition are a large number of documents, almost entirely vouchers, for the Texas [General] Hospital, located first at Quitman, Mississippi (Vouchers 395-485, October 1863-March 1864), and then at Auburn, Alabama (Vouchers 486-514 [528?], March-June [July?], 1864).
State of Texas Vouchers were authorizations for payment to individuals and firms for goods and services expended on account of state military needs. Most of the vouchers are also marked with a later annotation of receipt.
Because of the standardized nature of these and subsequent quartermaster records, it was possible to separate those pertaining to the State from those pertaining to the Confederacy.
Contracts or Articles of agreement were signed by private citizens and/or businesses to provide goods (mainly subsistence stores) and services (e.g., delivering mail, cutting out cloth for clothing, working as a blacksmith) to Texas state military organizations, mainly the Frontier Regiment.
There are financial Statements of State of Texas military posts and organizations, taking two forms: (a) monthly summary statements of funds received and disbursed, and (b) "accounts current," which are usually quarterly statements, in somewhat more detail, of all moneys received and expended by that organization or at that post. Both forms are balance sheets, where the debits equal the credits.
There are Estimates of funds required from the State of Texas by the quartermasters of various military posts, followed by estimates from the Frontier Regiment (1862-1864), the three Frontier Districts (1864), and various brigades of Texas State Troops.
There are also Receipts of State of Texas public funds, for subsistence and for contingencies. The amounts of money received are usually rather large.
Among the various State of Texas abstracts are abstracts of expenditures, of disbursements, of claims taken up and paid off, of indebtedness, of public funds transferred, of advances made to officers, of arrears due troops, etc.
Pay vouchers consist of state vouchers for pay and certain other expenses of 25 officers of all ranks, who served as commanders of frontier districts, quartermasters, commissaries of subsistence, ordnance officers, assistant adjutant generals, inspector generals, paymasters, aide-de-camps, surgeons, and agents/receivers for the State of Texas. Most of the officers were on the staff of the 6th Brigade, 3rd Frontier District, Texas State Troops. Information on these vouchers includes amount (and time period) of pay and subsistence for the officer; of pay, clothing, and subsistence for all private servants who are not soldiers; and forage for horses. Also included is a description of all servants, with names, complexion, height, color of eyes and hair. There are multiple copies of quite a few of the vouchers.
The officers represented are: Brigadier Generals J. D. McAdoo and John S. Griffiths; Colonels Horace Cone, Sackful Machin, and H. E. McCulloch; Lieutenant Colonel P. N. Luckett; Majors William Quayle, George B. Erath, James M. Hunter, Oscar A. Norwood, Russell De Armond, and J. D. Newsome; Captains B. E. Tarver, John R. Franklin, W. A. Montgomery, W. H. Hamman, John P. Hill, Albert S. Roberts, and H. W. Cook; 1st Lieutenants G. H. Wooten, Sam C. Upshaw, and A. K. Leigh; and Agent/Receiver James Duff.
Finally, the Reports and payrolls of hired men include the following records: reports and receipt rolls (payrolls) of men hired by the Quartermaster General of the State of Texas in San Antonio (March-September 1861); a descriptive list of persons (actually, one teamster) hired in the Quartermaster's Department (August 1862); a descriptive roll and clothing account of Private Isaac M. Wright, San Antonio Barracks (September 1862); reports of persons hired at San Antonio by James Duff, receiver for the State of Texas (February-April 1861); monthly receipt rolls for armorers and guards employed by the Ordnance Department in Austin, 1863-1864; a payroll of the State Percussion Cap Manufactory (April 1864); a monthly report of persons hired by Ben Henricks, the Assistant Quartermaster General (April 1864); a list of employees of George W. White, Commissary Agent (July 1863); a list of purchasing commissary agents (with their respective counties, undated); and three receipt rolls for soldiers commanded by Captain George R. Freeman, assigned to guard the State Treasury until the arrival of federal troops (June-July 1865).
Arrangement
These records are arranged by type of document. Therein arrangement varies. Requisitions, ordnance returns, and medical returns are arranged in four lists: major sites in Texas, other sites in Texas, sites outside Texas (each further arranged alphabetically by camp/fort/depot/station, and therein chronologically), and those with no location (arranged chronologically). Vouchers, statements, estimates of state funds required, receipts of state public funds, and abstracts are arranged alphabetically by camp/fort/depot/station, and chronologically therein. Articles of agreement are arranged chronologically. Pay vouchers are arranged alphabetically by the name of the officer.
Related Material
The following materials are offered as possible sources of further information on the agencies and subjects covered by the records. The listing is not exhaustive.
Texas State Archives
Texas State Treasury Department [?], Register of military vouchers and warrants (and civil warrants drawn on military appropriations), 1862-1865, 0.38 cubic ft. [There is no finding aid available for this unprocessed record. Call number is Volume 2-1/677.]
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Other state quartermaster records, Quartermaster records, Texas State Troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Requisitions: major sites in Texas
box folder
401-841 1. Austin, 1862
2-7. Austin, 1863
8-11. Austin, 1864
12. Austin, 1865
13-14. Brazos Santiago, 1861
15. Camp Arkansas Springs, 1863
15. Camp Bandera, 1862
15. Camp Big Spring, 1861
16. Camp Beauregard, 1861
17-18. Camp Colorado, 1863
19. Camp Colorado, 1864
20. Camp Cooper, 1861
21. Camp Dashiel, 1864
21. Camp Davis, 1862-1863
22. Camp Dix, 1863
23. Camp Easley, 1864
24. Camp Flournoy, 1861
25. Camp Gladson, 1865
25. Camp at Green Lake, 1861
26. Camp Hebert, 1861
27. Camp Hudson, 1861
28. Camp Lockridge, 1862-1863
29. Camp McCord, 1862
29. Camp McCulloch, near San Antonio, 1861
29. Camp near Plano, 1861
30-31. Camp Reeves, 1861
32. Camp San Pedro, 1861
32. Camp Tarrant, 1861
33. Camp Terry, 1862
34. Camp Verde, 1861
35. Camp Verde, 1862
36. Camp Verde, January-February, September-October 1863
37. Camp Verde, November 1863-April 1864
38. Camp near Webur Falls [?], 1862
38. Camp Wood, 1861
39. Elm Creek Station, 1861
box folder
401-842 1. Fort Belknap, 1861
1. Fort Bliss, 1861
2. Fort Brown, 1861
3. Fort Chadbourne, 1861
3. Fort Clark, 1861
4. Fort Inge, 1861, 1863-1864
5. Fort Lancaster, 1861
6. Fort McIntosh, 1861
7. Fort Mason, 1861
8. Fort Stockton, 1861
9. Hubbard's Creek Station, 1861
9. Indianola, 1861
10. Old Comanche Agency, 1861
11. Red River Station, 1862-1864
12. Resaca de la Palma, 1861
12. Resaca de la Veajo, 1861
12. Ringgold Barracks, 1861
12. Rio Grande Military District, 1861
13-14. San Antonio, 1861
Requisitions: other sites in Texas
box folder
401-842 15. Bastrop, 1864
16. Belton, 1864
17. Brenham, 1864
18. Burnet, 1864
19. Caldwell, 1864
20. Cameron, 1864
21. Castroville, 1863
21. Farmington, 1863
22. Fredericksburg, 1865
23. Georgetown, 1864
24. Hallettsville, 1864
25. LaGrange, 1864
26. Lampasas, 1864
27. Lavaca, 1864
28. Lockhart, 1864
29. Mather's Mill, 1861
30. Mosley's Ferry, 1864
31. Round Rock, 1864
32. Round Top, 1864
33. Rutersville, 1864
34. Seguin, 1863
34. Union Hill, 1864
35. Victoria, 1864
Requisitions: sites outside Texas
box folder
401-842 36. Arkansas, 1861-1862
37. Indian Territory, 1861
Requisitions: no location
box folder
401-842 38. 1861
39. 1863-1865
40. undated
Ordnance returns: major sites in Texas
box folder
401-842 41. Austin, 1861-1862
42. Austin, January-April 1863
43. Austin, May 1863
44. Austin, June-November 1863
45. Austin, January-June 1864
46. Austin, July-September 1864
47. Austin, October-December 1864
48. Austin, January-June 1865
box folder
401-843 1. Camp Belknap, 1863
2. Camp Brunson, 1863
2. Camp on Caney, 1864
3. Camp Clark, 1862
4. Camp Colorado, 1861, 1863-1864
5. Camp Cooper, 1861, 1863 (bulk 1861)
6. Camp Davis, 1862
6. Camp Feldens, 1864
6. Camp at Green Lake, 1861
7. Camp Jackson, 1861
7. Camp Stonewall Jackson, 1863
8. Camp Lubbock, 1863
8. Camp McMillin, 1863
9. Camp on Rio Grande, 1861
9. Camp Salmon, 1863
9. Camp San Saba, 1863
9. Camp Sidney Johnson, 1864
10. Camp Verde, 1861-1864
11. Camp Walton, 1861
12. Camp Wood, 1861
13. Decatur, 1864
14-15. Decatur, 1865
16. Elm Creek Station, 1861
17. Fort Bliss, 1861
18. Fort Brown, 1861-1862 (bulk 1861)
19. Fort Chadbourne, 1861
20. Fort Clark, 1861
21. Fort Davis, 1861
22. Fort Duncan, 1861
23. Fort Inge, 1861, 1864 (bulk 1861)
24. Fort McIntosh (Laredo), 1861-1862
25. Fort Mason, 1861
26. Fort Stockton, 1861
27-28. Fredericksburg, 1864
29. Fredericksburg, 1865
30. Hubbard's Creek Station, 1861
31. Indianola, 1861
32. Red River Station, 1863
33. Ringgold Barracks, 1861, 1863
34. Rio Grande Military District, 1861-1862 (bulk 1861)
35. Roma, 1862
36. San Antonio, 1861
37. San Antonio, 1862-1864
Ordnance returns: other sites in Texas
box folder
401-843 38. Atascosa County, 1862
38. Bastrop, 1861-1862
38. Burleson County, undated
38. Burnet County, 1861
38. Chapell Hill, 1861
38. Corpus Christi, 1863
38. Goliad, 1862
38. Harrison County, 1862
38. Edinburg (Hidalgo County), 1862
38. Hill County, undated
38. Houston, 1862-1863
38. Lampasas County, 1863
38. Mason County, 1863
39. Palo Pinto County, 1864
39. Panola County, 1862
39. Paris (Lamar County), 1862
39. Refugio County, 1862
39. San Augustine County, 1862
39. Stephens County, 1864
39. Travis County, 1861
39. Upshur County, 1861
39. Victoria County, 1862
39. Williamson County (Georgetown), 1862
Ordnance returns: sites outside Texas
box folder
401-843 39. Little Rock, Arkansas, 1862
39. Monterey, Mexico, 1862
Ordnance returns: no location
box folder
401-843 40. 1861
41. 1862
42. 1863
43. 1864
44. 1865
45. undated
Medical returns: major sites
box folder
401-844 1. Austin, 1863-1865
2. Camp Barry, 1864
2. Camp Beauregard, 1861
3. Camp Belknap, 1863
4. Camp Bogden, 1861
5. Camps Breckenridge and Cooper, 1863
6. Camp Brunson, 1863
7. Camp Colorado, 1861, 1863-1864
8. Camps Cooper and Chadbourne, 1861, 1863
9. Camp Darnell, 1863
9. Camp Davis, 1863
9. Camp Dix, 1863
10. Camp Hudson, 1861
11. Camp Kerbey, 1861
11. Camp near Plano, 1861
12. Camp Reeves, 1861
13. Camp Salmon, 1863
14. Camp San Saba, 1863
15. Camp Terry, 1862
16. Camp Verde, 1863-1864
17. Camp Wood, 1861
18. Fort Bliss, 1861
19. Fort Brown, 1861
20. Fort Clark, 1861
21. Fort Davis, 1861
22. Fort Inge, 1861, 1863
23. Fort McIntosh (Laredo), 1861-1862
24. Fort Mason, 1861-1862
25. Red River Station, 1863
26. Ringgold Barracks, 1861
Medical returns: other sites
box folder
401-844 27. Brownsville, 1861
27. Corsicana, 1861
27. Dallas, 1861
27. Fredericksburg, 1862
27. Gilmer, 1861
28. Hempstead, 1861
28. Port Sullivan, 1864
28. San Antonio, 1861
28. Sherman, 1861
29. Waco, 1863
Medical returns outside Texas: Texas Hospital
box folder
401-844 30. Quitman, Mississippi, October-December 1863
31. Quitman, Mississippi, January-March 1864
32. Auburn, Alabama, March-June 1864
33. Auburn, Alabama, June-July 1864
Medical returns: no location
box folder
401-844 34. 1861
34. 1861
35. 1862-1863, undated
Vouchers
box folder
401-844 36. Austin, 1861
37. Austin, March-May 1862
38. Austin, June-July 1862
39-40. Austin, August 1862
41-45. Austin, September 1862
box folder
401-845 1-11. Austin, October 1862
12-24. Austin, November 1862
25. Austin, December 1862
26. Austin, January-April 1863
27. Austin, May 1863
28. Austin, June 1863
29. Austin, July-September 1863
30. Austin, October-December 1863
31. Austin, January-March 1864
32. Austin, April 1864
33. Austin, May 1864
34. Austin, June 1864
box folder
401-846 1. Austin, July 1864
2. Austin, August 1864
3. Austin, September 1864
4. Austin, November-December 1864
5. Austin, 1865
6. Bandera, 1862-1863
6. Burnet, 1862
7. Brazos Santiago, February 1861
8. Brazos Santiago, March 1861
9. Brazos Santiago, April 1861
10. Brownsville, February-March, September 1861
11. Brownsville, September 1861
12. Brownsville, October 1861
13. Brownsville, November-December 1861
14. Brownsville, 1862-1864
15. Camp Bandera, 1862
15. Camp Belknap, 1861, 1864
15. Camp Bogden, 1861
16. Camp Beauregard, 1861
16. Camp Carricitas, 1861
17. Camp Colorado, 1861-June 1863
18. Camp Colorado, September-December 1863
19. Camp Colorado, January-February 1864
20. Camp Cooper, 1861
21. Camp Darnell, 1863
22. Camp Davis, 1861-1862
23. Camp Dix, 1863
24. Camp Hebert, 1861
24. Camp Hudson, 1861
24. Camp Kerbey, 1861
25. Camp McCord, 1863-1864
26. Camp Randle, 1863
26. Camp Reeves, 1861
27. Camp Salmon, 1863
28. Camp Tarrant, 1863
29. Camp Verde, January-June 1862
30. Camp Verde, July 1862-March 1863
31. Camp Verde, September-October 1863
32. Camp Verde, November-December 1863
33. Camp Verde, 1864
34. Castroville, 1862-1863
35. Chambers Creek, 1861
36. Chappell Hill, 1863
36. Comfort, 1863
37. Corpus Christi, 1861-1862
38. Dallas, 1861-1865 (bulk 1863)
39. Decatur, 1864
40. Decatur, 1865
41. D'Hanis, 1863
41. Edinburg, 1861
box folder
401-847 1. Fort Belknap, 1862, 1864
2. Fort Brown, 1861
3. Fort Clark, 1861
4. Fort Chadbourne, 1861
4. Fort Davis, 1861
5. Fort Inge, 1863
6. Fort Inge, 1864
7. Fort Mason, 1861
7. Fort Stockton, 1861
8. Fredericksburg, 1862
9. Fredericksburg, 1863-1864
10. Fredericksburg, 1865
11. Galveston, 1861
12. Galveston, 1863
13. Gatesville, 1862-1864
14. Georgetown, 1862
14. Harrisburg, 1861
14. Hempstead, 1861
14. Hondo, 1863
15. Houston, 1861, 1863-1864
16. Hubbard's Creek, 1861
16. Kentucky Town, 1861
17. Indianola, 1861
18. Laredo, 1861-1862
19. Lampasas, 1862-1864
19. Leonville, 1863-1864
20. Meridian, 1863-1864
21. McKinney, 1861
21. Medina County, 1863
22. Milford, 1861
22. New Braunfels, 1863
23. Old Comanche Agency, 1861
23. Paris, 1863
23. Point Isabel, 1861
24. Porters Bluff, 1861
24. Refugio, 1862
25. Red River Station, March-June 1862
26. Red River Station, July-August 1862
27. Red River Station, September 1862
28. Red River Station, October 1862
29. Red River Station, November 1862
30. Red River Station, December 1862
31. Red River Station, January-February 1863
32. Red River Station, April-June 1863
33. Red River Station, October-December 1863
34. Red River Station, 1864
35. Rio Grande Military District, 1861
36. San Antonio, February 1861
37. San Antonio, March 1861
38. San Antonio, April 1861
39. San Antonio, May-October 1861
40. San Antonio, 1862-1864
box folder
401-848 1. San Marcos, 1862, 1864
1. Stephenville, 1862
1. Sulphur Springs, 1863
401-848 Sherman, 1861
2A. Tonkaway Agency, 1864-1865
3. Uvalde, 1863
4. Waco, 1861, 1863-1864
5. Waxahachie, 1861
5. Weatherford, 1865
5. Weston, 1861
6. Counties (Erath, Kerr, Mason, Montague, Palo Pinto, Young), 1862
7. Out of state, 1861-1862
Vouchers: no location
box folder
401-848 8. January-March 1861
9. April-August 1861
10. September 1-15, 1861
11. September 16-30, 1861
12. October 1-8, 1861
13. October 9-15, 1861
14. October 16-22, 1861
15. October 23-31, 1861
16. November-December 1861
17. 1862
18. 1863
19. 1864
20. 1865
21. undated
Articles of agreement
box folder
401-848 22. 1861-1862
23. 1863
Statements
box folder
401-848 24. Austin, Adjutant General, 1863-1864
25. Austin, Mounted Regiment, 1863-1864
26. Brazos Santiago, 1861
27. Camp Bandera, 1862
27. Camp Belknap, 1863
27. Camp Darnell, 1863
27. Camp Davis, 1863
27. Camp Firo, 1862
28. Camp Colorado, 1863-1864
29. Camp Dix, 1863
30. Camp McCord, 1864
30. Camps Pecan and Collier, 1862
31. Camp Verde, 1862-1863
32. Decatur, 1863-1865
33. Fort Chadbourne, 1861
33. Fort Davis, 1861
34. Fort Inge, 1863-1864
35. Fort Mason, 1861
35. Fort Stockton, 1861
box folder
401-849 1. Fredericksburg, 1864-1865
2. Indianola, 1861
2. Laredo, 1861
3. Red River Station, 1862-1864
4. Rio Grande Military District, 1861-1862
5. San Antonio, 1861-1862
5. Tonkaway Agency (Young County), 1865
6. No location: Texas Frontier Regiment, 1862-1864
7. No location: Mounted Regiment, 1863-1864
8. Other, 1861-1865
Estimates of funds required
box folder
401-849 9. Camp Belknap, 1863
9. Camp Brunson, 1863
9. Camp Colorado, 1864
10. Camp Randle, 1863
10. Camp Verde, 1862-1863
10. Camp near Victoria, 1863
11. Fort Brown, 1861
11. Fredericksburg, 1864-1865
12. Frontier Regiment, (1862)-1864
13. Frontier Districts, 1864
14. Texas State Troops, 1862-1865
Receipts of public funds
box folder
401-849 15. Austin, Mounted Regiment, 1863-1864
16. Austin, other, 1863-1865
17. Brazos Santiago, 1861
18. Fort Brown, 1861
18. Fort Inge, 1863-1864
19. Other sites (Camp Brunson, Decatur, Gatesville, McKinney, San Antonio, Weatherford), 1861-1865
Various abstracts
box folder
401-849 20. Austin, 1863-1865
21. Brazos Santiago, 1861
21. Brownsville, 1863
21. Corpus Christi, 1862
22. Camp Belknap, 1862
22. Camp Colorado, 1862-1863
22. Camp Cooper, 1861
23. Camp Darnell, 1863
23. Camp Davis, 1862
23. Camp Dix, 1863
24. Camp on Hubbard's Creek, 1861
24. Camp McCord, 1864
24. Camp McMillin and San Saba, 1862-1863
25. Camp Verde, 1862-1864
26. Decatur, 1864-1865
27. Fort Brown, 1861
27. Fort Davis, undated
27. Fort Inge, 1863-1864
27. Fort Mason, 1861
28. Fredericksburg, 1864
28. Galveston, 1863
28. Indianola, 1861
28. Laredo, 1861-1862
29. Red River Station, 1862-1864
30. Rio Grande Military District, 1861-1862
31. San Antonio, 1861
31. Sherman, 1861
32. No location: Frontier Regiment, 1862-1864
33. No location: Mounted Regiment, 1863
34. Others, 1861-1865
Pay vouchers
box folder
401-849 35. C thru E
36. F thru H
37. L thru Mc
38. M thru N
39. Q thru T
40. U thru W
Payrolls of hired men
box folder
401-849 41. Quartermaster General, San Antonio, 1861
Reports of hired men
box folder
401-849 42. Quartermaster General, San Antonio, 1861-1862
43. James Duff, San Antonio, 1861
Payrolls
box folder
401-849 44. Ordnance Department, 1863
45. Ordnance Department, 1864
46. Percussion cap factory, 1864
folder
46. Report of hired men, Quartermaster, Austin, 1864
box folder
401-849 47. List of Commissary agents and employees, 1863
48. Payrolls, Treasury guards, 1865


 

Confederate records, 1861-1865, undated,
4.9 cubic ft.

These records consist of Confederate Quartermaster correspondence, contracts, vouchers, statements, estimates of funds required, receipts of public funds, various abstracts, reports and payrolls of hired persons, tax-in-kind records, reports of guards, morning reports, and miscellaneous volumes, relating almost entirely to Texas, dating 1861-1865, and undated. The researcher should note that additional Confederate records can be found among the previously described Texas State Troops Military orders, Quartermaster returns, and Quartermaster requisitions.
Organization
These records are organized into fourteen subseries:
Quartermaster correspondence, 1861-1865, undated, 0.77 cubic ft.
Articles of agreement, 1861-1864, fractional
Confederate vouchers, 1861-1865, 0.57 cubic ft.
Confederate quartermaster statements, 1861-1864, 0.15 cubic ft.
Estimates of Confederate funds required, 1861-1862, fractional
Receipts of Confederate public funds, 1861-1865, 0.1 cubic ft.
Various Confederate abstracts, 1861-1865, 0.15 cubic ft.
Confederate reports and payrolls of hired persons, 1861-1865, 0.2 cubic ft.
Tax-in-kind records, 1863-1865 (bulk 1864), 1.95 cubic ft.
Estimates of tithes due, 1863-1864, fractional
Reports of hired persons (tax-in-kind), 1863-1865, 0.24 cubic ft.
Reports of slave impressment, 1863, 1865, fractional
Reports of guards and morning reports, 1862-1865, undated, 0.51 cubic ft.
Various volumes, 1862-1869 (bulk 1862-1865), 0.15 cubic ft.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item and cite the subseries), Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession Information
Accession numbers: 1933/001
The Texas Adjutant General's Department transferred the vast majority of these records to the Texas State Archives on February 21, 1934.
Restrictions on Access
None.
Restrictions on Use
None.
Processed by
Tony Black, October 1986, May 1988
Quartermaster correspondence, 1861-1865, undated,
0.77 cubic ft.
These records consist of letters to (and to a lesser extent from) the various offices of the Confederate Quartermaster, involving Texas, dating 1861-1865, and undated. The majority of the items are addressed to (and from) the following individuals:
  • (a) Captain James P. McKinney (Assistant Quartermaster and Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, Confederate States Army, stationed in Austin, Camp Terry, and Camp Lockridge);
  • (b) Captain George C. Rives (Post Quartermaster of the 2nd Congressional District, Austin, in charge of the tax-in-kind); and
  • (c) Major N. B. Pearce (Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Department of the West, Fort Smith, Arkansas).
Arrangement
These records are arranged roughly chronologically, to the month.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Quartermaster correspondence, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Quartermaster correspondence
box folder
401-850 1. June-July, December 1861
1. January-February 1862
2. March-April 1862
3. May 1862
4. June 1862
5. July-September 1862
6. October-December 1862
7. January-June 1863
8. July 1863
9. August 1863
10. September 1863
11-12. October 1863
13-14. November 1863
15-16. December 1863
17. January 1864
18-19. February 1864
20-21. March 1864
22-23. April 1864
box folder
401-851 1-2. May 1864
3-4. June 1864
5-6. July 1864
7. August 1864
8. September 1864
9. October 1864
10. November 1864
11. December 1864
12. January 1865
13. February 1865
14. March 1865
15. April 1865
16. May 1865
17. undated
Articles of agreement, 1861-1864,
fractional
These records consist of contracts made between private individuals and firms and Confederate military officials to provide certain goods and services, e.g., to slaughter cattle, to pack beef, to provide bacon, rice, sugar, molasses, candles, wood, tin, canteens, wool hats, shoes, etc. They date 1861-1864.
Arrangement
These records are arranged chronologically.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Articles of agreement, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Articles of agreement
box folder
401-851 18. 1861
19. 1862
20. 1863
21. 1864
Confederate vouchers, 1861-1865,
0.57 cubic ft.
These records consist of Confederate vouchers authorizing payment to individuals and firms for goods and services expended on account of Confederate military needs, dating 1861-1865. Most are also marked with a later annotation of receipt.
Arrangement
These records are arranged by sites in Texas, sites outside of Texas, and no location. Within each of these groups, the records are arranged alphabetically by camp/fort/station, and chronologically therein.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Confederate vouchers, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Confederate vouchers: sites in Texas
box folder
401-851 22-23. Austin, 1861-1862
24. Austin, January-February 1863
25. Austin, March-April 1863
26. Austin, May-June 1863
box folder
401-852 1. Austin, July-September 1863
2. Austin, October 1863
3. Austin, November 1863
4. Austin, December 1863
5. Austin, January-February 1864
6. Austin, March 1864
7. Austin, April 1864
8. Austin, May-June 1864
9. Austin, July-December 1864
10. Austin, 1865
11. Belton, 1862, 1864
11. Belville, 1864
12. Brenham, 1863-1864
13. Camp Colorado, 1861
13. Camp Cooper, 1861
13. Camp Terry, 1862
14. Caldwell, 1864
14. Cameron, 1864
14. Columbus, 1864
15. Dallas, 1863
16. Fort Brown, 1861
17. Fort Mason, 1861-1862
18. Fort Worth, 1863
18. Georgetown, 1864
18. Houston, 1863
19. Huntsville, 1862-1864
20. Plano, 1863
20. Port Sullivan, 1864
20. Richmond, 1864
20. Waco, 1862
21. Rio Grande Military District, 1861
21. Roma, 1863
22. San Antonio, 1862-(1863)
Confederate vouchers: sites outside Texas
box folder
401-852 23. Arkansas: Camp Nelson, 1862
24-25. Arkansas: Fort Smith, 1861
26-28. Arkansas: Fort Smith, 1862
29-32. Arkansas: Osage Mills, 1861-1862
33. Arkansas: other sites, 1861-1862
34-35. Mississippi: Jackson, 1862
36. Alabama: Mobile, 1863
36. Mississippi: Vicksburg, 1862
36. Tennessee: Memphis, 1862
Confederate vouchers: no location
box folder
401-852 37. No location, 1861-1863
38-39. No location, 1864-1865
40. Confederate pay vouchers, 1861, 1864
Confederate quartermaster statements, 1861-1864,
0.15 cubic ft.
These records consist of financial statements of Confederate military posts and organizations, including monthly summary statements of funds received and disbursed, and "accounts current," which are usually quarterly statements, in somewhat more detail, of all moneys received and expended. They date 1861-1864.
Arrangement
These records are arranged by sites in Texas, sites outside of Texas, and no location. Within each of these groups, the records are arranged alphabetically by camp/fort/station, and chronologically therein.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Confederate quartermaster statements, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Confederate quartermaster statements: sites in Texas
box folder
401-853 1. Austin, 1862
2. Austin, 1863
3-4. Austin, 1864-1865
5. Camp Colorado, 1861
5. Camp McCulloch, 1863
6. Fort Brown, 1861
6. Fort Mason, 1861-1862
7. Paris, 1863
7. Rusk, 1863
8. San Antonio, 1863
Confederate quartermaster statements: sites outside Texas
box folder
401-853 9. Arkansas: Osage Mills, 1861
9. Arkansas: Fort Smith, 1862
9. Arkansas: Camp Nelson, 1862
Confederate quartermaster statements: no location
box folder
401-853 10. No location, 1861
11. No location, 1862
12. No location, 1863
Estimates of Confederate funds required, 1861-1862,
fractional
These records consist of estimates of funds required from the Confederate States government by the quartermasters of various military posts and organizations, 1861-1862. Most if not all of the camps and stations are outside of Texas.
Arrangement
These records are arranged by camp or station, and chronologically therein.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Estimates of Confederate funds required, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Estimates of funds required
box folder
401-853 13. Arkansas, 1862
14. Cherokee Nation, 1861-1862
15. No location, 1862
Receipts of Confederate public funds, 1861-1865,
0.1 cubic ft.
These records consist of receipts of Confederate quartermaster funds, for subsistence and for contingencies, dating 1861-1865.
Arrangement
These records are arranged by sites in Texas, sites outside of Texas, and no location. Within each of these groups, the records are arranged alphabetically by camp/fort/station, and chronologically therein.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Receipts of Confederate public funds, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Receipts of public funds: sites in Texas
box folder
401-853 16. Austin, 1862-1865
17. Dallas, 1863
17. Fort Brown, 1861
17. Waco, 1863
18. Harrisburg, 1863
18. Houston, 1863
19. Nacogdoches, 1863
19. Paris, 1863-1864
20. San Antonio, 1862-1864
Receipts of public funds: sites outside Texas
box folder
401-853 21. Arkansas: Camp Nelson, 1862
22. Arkansas: other, 1861-1862
23. Louisiana, 1863
23. Cherokee Nation, 1862-1863
Receipts of public funds: no location
box folder
401-853 24. No location, 1863
Various Confederate abstracts, 1861-1865,
0.15 cubic ft.
These records consist of abstracts of advances and allowances made to officers, of disbursements on account of contingencies, of expenditures, of transfers of public funds, and briefs of errors on commissary and quartermaster papers. They date 1861-1865. The Confederate officials responsible were: Major N. B. Pearce (Commissary of Subsistence), Captain James P. McKinney (Assistant Quartermaster), Captain G. H. Leigh (Assistant Commissary of Subsistence), Captain George C. Rives (Post Quartermaster, 2nd Congressional District), and Captain John R. King (Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, 1st Regiment, Texas Mounted Riflemen, Provisional Confederate States Army).
Arrangement
These records are arranged by the Confederate official responsible, and therein chronologically.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Various Confederate abstracts, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Confederate abstracts
box folder
401-853 25-26. Major Pearce, 1861-1862
27. Major Pearce, 1863-1864
28. Captain McKinney, 1862-1863
29. Captain McKinney, 1864-1865
30. Captain Leigh, 1863-1865
31. Captain Rives, 1864-1865
32. Captain King, 1861-1862
Confederate reports and payrolls of hired persons, 1861-1865,
0.2 cubic ft.
These records consist of reports and receipt rolls (payrolls) for hired persons and extra duty men (non-commissioned officers and privates employed on extra duty as mechanics and laborers), dating 1861-1865, for the following Confederate officers:
  • Major N. B. Pearce (Commissary of Subsistence, Austin);
  • Captain James P. McKinney (Assistant Quartermaster, Austin);
  • Captain John R. King (Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, 1st Regiment, Texas Mounted Riflemen, Provisional Confederate States Army);
  • G. H. Leigh (Acting Commissary of Subsistence);
  • Captain W. W. Reynolds (Quartermaster, Fort Brown);
  • 1st Lieutenant Joseph Hopkins (Acting Quartermaster, Confederate States Army, Fort Brown);
  • Lieutenant A. F. Flowers (Assistant Acting Quartermaster, Confederate States Army, Fort Brown);
  • Lieutenant T. L. Buckner (Assistant Acting Quartermaster, Confederate States Army, Camp Lockridge);
  • Major Thomas Lanigan (Commissary of Subsistence, Confederate States Army, Norwestern Sub-District of Texas); and
  • Lieutenant J. C. Leach (Acting Assistant Quartermaster, Confederate States Army, Roma, Texas).
Arrangement
These records are arranged by the Confederate official responsible, and therein chronologically.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Confederate reports and payrolls of hired persons, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Reports of hired persons
box folder
401-853 33. Major Pearce, 1861-1862 (bulk 1862)
34-35. Major Pearce, 1863
36-37. Major Pearce, 1864-1865
38. Captain McKinney, 1862
38A. Captain McKinney (bounty pay), 1862
39. Captain McKinney, 1863
40. Captain King, 1862
box folder
401-854 1. Captain Leigh, 1862
2-3. Captain Leigh, 1863
4-6. Captain Leigh, 1864
7. Captain Leigh, 1865
8. Quartermasters at Fort Brown, 1861
9. Lieutenant Buckner, 1863
9. Major Lanigan, 1863
9. Lieutenant Leach, 1863
Tax-in-kind records, 1863-1865 (bulk 1864),
1.95 cubic ft.
Because of the scarcity of sound currency during the Civil War, the Confederate States government created a method in April 1863 whereby troops could be provisioned without placing an overwhelming burden upon farmers. This tax-in-kind, often called the tithe or tenth, included the following commodities: grain (corn, wheat, oats, rye, buckwheat, rice); forage (hay and fodder); potatoes (Irish and sweet); peas and beans; wool; cotton; sugar and molasses; tobacco; and bacon. The tax-in-kind was delivered to a regional depot; the depot agents would in turn see that the tithe was properly distributed to the troops. Nearly all of the tax-in-kind records found in the Texas State Archives pertain to the 2nd Congressional District, which was divided into 18 depots, representing the following counties: Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Brazoria, Burleson, Burnet and Lampasas, Caldwell, Colorado, Fayette, Ft. Bend, Jackson, Lavaca, Matagorda, Milam, Travis, Washington, Wharton, and Williamson. The Post Quartermaster in charge of these tax-in-kind transactions was Captain George C. Rives, who was headquartered in Austin. See pages 43-52 of James L. Nichols' The Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi (1964).
These records consist of receipts and reports of articles received as tax-in-kind, lists of delinquent taxpayers who owe tax-in-kind (including one oversized list of 602 taxpayers from Fayette County, June 28, 1864), plus requisitions and other quartermaster documents that directly involve the disposition of articles received as tax-in-kind. They date 1863-1865 (bulk 1864).
There is also a volume that contains an assortment of tax-in-kind records from George C. Rives' office, including abstracts, reports of persons and articles employed and hired, tax-in-kind reports, and monthly summary statements. A note on page 164 of the volume states: "From this page on to the end of the volume defaced by carpet bag soldiers who had this records in their possession."
Arrangement
These records are arranged alphabetically by county (see the chart below), and therein chronologically.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Tax-in-kind records, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Tax-in-Kind Depots

DEPOT NUMBER COUNTY PRINCIPAL TOWNS DEPOT AGENT
1 Burnet and Burnet T. C. Jackson
Lampasas Lampasas T. C. Jackson
2 Bell Belton John S. Blair
3 Williamson Georgetown, Round Rock Richard C. Hart
4 Milam Cameron John A. Buckholts
5 Burleson Caldwell W. N. Heslip
6 Travis Austin John L. Wallace/Irvine H. Bradfute/David Eppright
7 Caldwell Lockhart C. W. Whitis/William Lester
8 Bastrop Bastrop J. H. Gillespie
9 Fayette Lagrange, Round Top W. W. Little
10 Washington Brenham, Chappell Hill, Navasota, Courtney, Evergreen A. H. Rippetoe
11 Austin Bellville William M. Bennatt
12 Colorado Columbus John N. Arnold
13 Lavaca Halletsville T. A. Hester
14 Jackson Texana Samuel Harris
15 Wharton Wharton John T. Walker/E. George
16 Ft. Bend Richmond H. M. Daughtry/M. M. Michau
17 Brazoria -- S. L. S. Ballowe
18 Matagorda Matagorda R. A. Rutherford
Tax-in-kind records
Austin County:
box folder
401-854 10. November 1863-May 1864
11. June 1864-April 1865
Bastrop County:
box folder
401-854 12. September-December 1863
13. January 1864
14. February 1864
15. March 1864
16. April 1864
17. May-June 1864
18. July-August 1864
19. September-October 1864
20. November 1864-April 1865
Bell County:
box folder
401-854 21. January-June 1864
22. July 1864-April 1865
Brazoria County:
box folder
401-854 23. August-December 1863
24. January-June 1864
25. July-November 1864
26. December 1864-January 1865
Brazos County:
box folder
401-854 27. January 1864
Burleson County:
box folder
401-854 28. December 1863-June 1864
29. July-December 1864
Burnet and Lampasas Counties:
box folder
401-855 1. December 1863-June 1864
2. July 1864-January 1865
Caldwell County:
box folder
401-855 3. October-December 1863
4. January 1864
5. February 1864
6. March-April 1864
7. May-June 1864
8. July-December 1864
Calhoun County:
box folder
401-855 9. September 1863
Colorado County:
box folder
401-855 10-11. March, May, November 1863; February-March 1864
12. April-June 1864
13. July 1864
14. August 1864
15. September 1864-January 1865
Coryell County:
box folder
401-855 16. 1864
Fayette County:
box folder
401-855 17. February 1864
18-20. March 1864
21. April-June 1864
22. July-December 1864
Ft. Bend County:
box folder
401-856 1. October-December 1863
2. January-June 1864
3. July-December 1864
Grimes County:
box folder
401-856 4. January 1864
Harrison County:
box folder
401-856 4. January 1864
Harris County:
box folder
401-856 5. September 1863-July 1864
Jackson County:
box folder
401-856 6. August-December 1863
7. January-November 1864
Lavaca County:
box folder
401-856 8. December 1863-April 1864
9. May-September 1864
10. October 1864-February 1865
Matagorda County:
box folder
401-856 11. October 1863-June 1864
12. July 1864-March 1865
Milam County:
box folder
401-856 13. January-May 1864
14. June 1864
15. July 1864-March 1865
San Antonio:
box folder
401-856 16. December 1863-September 1864
Walker County:
box folder
401-856 16. January 1864
Travis County:
box folder
401-856 17. September-December 1863
18. January-February 1864
19. March-April 1864
20. May-June 1864
21. July-August 1864
22-23. September 1864
24. October 1864
25. November-December 1864
26. January-March 1865
Waller County (Hempstead):
box folder
401-856 27. November 1863-November 1864
Washington County:
box folder
401-857 1. September-November 1863
2. December 1863
3. January 1864
4. February 1864
5. March 1864
6. April 1864
7-8. May 1864
9-11. June 1864
12. July-December 1864
Wharton County:
box folder
401-857 13. October 1863-November 1864
Williamson County:
box folder
401-857 14. Williamson County, November 1863-February 1864
15. March 1864
16. April-June 1864
17. July-September 1864
18. October 1864-April 1865
Multiple counties:
box folder
401-857 19. September 1863-June 1864
20. July-December 1864
No location:
box folder
401-857 21. October 63-June 1864
22. July 1864-April 1865
map-case folder
401-1322 2. List of delinquent taxpayers, Fayette County, 1864
volume
401-977 Tax-in-kind volume, 1863-1868 (bulk 1863-1864)
Estimates of tithes due, 1863-1864,
fractional
These records consist of two kinds of tax-in-kind documents, dating 1863-1864: estimates of cotton, sugar, molasses, tobacco, and bacon tithes, for March-May 1864 (the majority of them in April); and estimates of grain, forage, potato, and wool tithes, for December 1863-June 1864. Only two counties are represented, Lavaca and Williamson. Each of these narrow strips of paper is signed by both the individual taxpayer and the county appraiser/assessor (Washington Anderson for Williamson County, H. K. Judd for Lavaca County). Those from Williamson County are endorsed on the back by the agent of Depot Number 3; those from Lavaca County are endorsed only "Paid in Full."
Arrangement
These records are arranged by county, and therein chronologically.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Estimates of tithes due, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Estimates of tithes due
box folder
401-857 23. Lavaca County, grain, etc., 1863-1864
24. Lavaca County, cotton, etc., 1864
25. Williamson County, 1863-1864
Reports of hired persons (tax-in-kind), 1863-1865,
0.24 cubic ft.
These records consist of reports of persons employed by the various agents for collection of the tax-in-kind in the 2nd Congressional District, plus some payrolls and rolls of extra-duty men in those depots. They date 1863-1865. Also included (in the first folder) are the following: a list of agents and subagents employed in collection of the tax-in-kind in the 2nd Congressional District; a report of agents on duty for Captain G. H. Leigh; a reports of persons transferred to Captain William Cook (Assistant Quartermaster) by Captain George C. Rives (October 1864); and a descriptive list of persons employed in the Quartermaster Department and transferred by Captain Rives to Captain E. Sampson (Assistant Quartermaster) in January 1865.
Arrangement
These records are arranged alphabetically by county, and chronologically therein.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Reports of hired persons (tax-in-kind), Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Reports of hired persons
box folder
401-858 1. 2nd Congressional District, 1864-1865
2. Austin County, 1864
3. Bastrop County, 1863-1864
4. Bell County, 1864
5. Brazoria County, 1864
6. Burleson County, 1864
7. Caldwell County, 1863-1864
8. Colorado County, 1864
9. Fayette County, 1864
10. Fort Bend County, 1863-1864
11. Lampasas and Burnet Counties, 1864
12. Lavaca County, 1864
13. Matagorda County, 1864
14. Milam County, 1864
15. Travis County, 1863
16. Travis County, 1864
17. Washington County, 1864
18. Williamson County, 1864
Reports of slave impressment, 1863, 1865,
fractional
These records consist of two oversized rolls or reports of slave labor impressed during the Civil War, dating 1863 and 1865. The first is a roll of slaves hired for the Quartermaster Department, Confederate States Army at Seguin, Texas, for July and August 1863. It gives the following information: number, name of slave, names of owners, number of slaves owned by each, residence (including both Guadalupe and Caldwell Counties), date of hire, age, and remarks. The second is a report of the assessment of Negroes in Wilson County, Texas, dated May 16, 1865. Information on this roll includes: name of owner or employer, number in possession, number in service, number due the service (and number to be retained in the service) and for what length of time. See the following in Texas State Troops records, Military orders: General Order 1 (January 1, 1865) for Headquarters, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, giving the rules and regulations for the Bureau of Negro Labor; and Special Order 1 (April 20, 1865) for Headquarters, Labor Bureau, Western Sub-District, San Antonio, regarding Wilson County.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Reports of slave impressment, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
oversize folder
401-824 13. Reports of slave impressment, 1863, 1865
Reports of guards and morning reports, 1862-1865, undated,
0.51 cubic ft.
These records consist of six volumes (including one strictly of photostatic copies), all relating to Colonel O. M. Roberts' 11th Texas Regiment of Infantry, Confederate States Army, dating 1862-1865. Two volumes (those marked "I" and "III") contain reports of guards mounted at various camps (Camp Lubbock in Volume I, and a number of camps in Arkansas in Volume III). Five volumes (all except Volume III) contain morning reports of various camps, mostly in Arkansas, 1862-1865. Additional material in some of the volumes includes, for example, a "description book of officers" with names, rank, date of appointment, transfers, leaves of absence, time absent, where born, and remarks; and some copies of correspondence.
In addition are a handful of loose morning reports and returns: three for Captain Edward A. Stevens' company of Texas Cavalry in Colonel P. C. Woods' regiment (1862-1864); one for Captain William L. Foster's company of Texas Cavalry in Colonel Woods' regiment (1862); and one for Colonel J. B. Robertson's 5th Texas Regiment, Texas Brigade, near Richmond, Virginia (undated).
Arrangement
These records are arranged chronologically.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Reports of guards and morning reports, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
11th Texas Regiment, Infantry, CSA
volume
401-978 Volume I: Reports of guards, April-May 1862
Volume I: Morning reports, January-April 1865
volume
401-979 Volume II: Officers roster, October-November 1862
Volume II: Morning reports, June 1862-March 1863
volume
401-980 Volume III: Reports of guards, July 1862-March 1863
volume
401-981 Volume IV: Morning reports, August 1862-October 1863
volume
401-982 Volume V: Description book of officers
Volume V: Morning reports, November 1863-December 1864
Volume V: Correspondence
volume
401-983 [Volume VI]: Company I morning reports (photostats), June 1862-May 1865
box folder
401-858 19. Morning reports and returns
Various volumes, 1862-1869 (bulk 1862-1865),
0.15 cubic ft.
These records consist of two volumes, dating 1862-1869 (bulk 1862-1865). One is primarily a cash book of balance sheets, June 1862-February 1865, of accounts of such persons as Captain James P. McKinney, Major N. B. Pearce, and William H. King. It also contains odd items such as a copy of a Special Order dated 1866, and a copy of a court martial order dated 1869. The second volume is marked on the cover "U.S.A. Hospital Department, Medical Case Book;" but while it does contain some medical case notes from March 1863, most of the volume is dedicated to individual Confederate officers' accounts for provisions, 1863-1864.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Various volumes, Confederate records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
volume
401-995 Cash book, 1862-1869 (bulk 1862-1865)
volume
401-996 Miscellaneous volume, 1863-1864


 

Union troops records, 1855, 1860-1866 (bulk 1863-1864),
0.29 cubic ft.

These records consist of Union correspondence (both loose and in a bound volume), military orders, monthly returns, pay vouchers, a morning report, reports of guards, a hospital payroll, and a miscellaneous volume. They comprise records of Union troops in Texas, 1855, 1860-1866 (bulk 1863-1864).
Organization
These records are organized into eight subseries:
Union correspondence, 1863-1864, fractional
Military orders, 1863-1864, 0.1 cubic ft.
Monthly returns, 1855, 1865-1866, fractional
Pay vouchers, 1860-1861, fractional
Morning report, 1862, fractional
Reports of guards, 1864-1865, fractional
Hospital payroll, 1860-1861, fractional
Miscellaneous volume, 1863-1865, fractional
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item and cite the subseries), Union troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession Information
Accession numbers: 1931/003, 1933/001, 1933/005
Two volumes were "discovered... in an obscure corner of the basement of the State Department," and transferred to the Texas State Archives by Texas Secretary of State Jane Y. McCallum on November 5, 1931. Another volume, labeled somewhat misleadingly "Letters received, 1864," was transferred to the Texas State Archives by the Texas Secretary of State on February 27, 1934. The Texas Adjutant General's Department probably transferred the other Union troops records to the Texas State Archives on February 21, 1934.
Restrictions on Access
None.
Restrictions on Use
None.
Processed by
Tony Black, October 1986
Union correspondence, 1863-1864,
fractional
These records consist of Union correspondence in two forms, loose and in a bound volume, dating 1863-1864.
The loose correspondence contains approximately 68 letters between and among the various organizations of Union troops in Texas during 1863 and 1864. This includes: approximately 17 letters (mostly commissions) from the Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, to the commanding officer of the 2nd Texas Cavalry; approximately 13 letters (mostly in the nature of orders) from Colonel E. J. Davis (Headquarters, Texas Cavalry Forces) to the various commanding officers of the 2nd Texas Cavalry; about 18 items from those commanding officers back to Colonel Davis; about 4 letters from Headquarters, United States Forces on the Rio Grande to Colonel Davis; and approximately 16 letters to the commander of the 2nd Texas Cavalry from a variety of offices: the Ordnance Office in Washington, D.C., the Post Hospital in Brownsville, the War Department in Washington, D.C., the 2nd Division of the 13th Crops, the Office of the Provost Marshal in Brownsville, Headquarters of Cavalry Forces of the 19th Army Corps, and the United States General Marine Hospital.
The bound volume, labeled somewhat misleadingly "Letters received, 1864," contains copies of letters to and from various Union military organizations, including the headquarters and the various commanding and staff officers of the 1st Texas Cavalry Volunteers, the U.S. Forces on the Rio Grande, the War Department in Washington, D.C., etc. There is no index included.
Arrangement
These records are arranged chronologically.
Accession Information
Accession number: 1933/005
The bound volume, labeled somewhat misleadingly "Letters received, 1864," was transferred to the Texas State Archives by the Texas Secretary of State on February 27, 1934.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Union correspondence, Union troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Union correspondence
box folder
401-859 1. December 1863-March 1864
2. April-June 1864
3. July-September 1864
volume
401-997 January-November 1864
Military orders, 1863-1864,
0.1 cubic ft.
These records consist of approximately 61 General Orders, 43 Special Orders, and 30 Circulars emanating from the various headquarters of Union forces in or near Texas, 1863-1864. Those organizations include: United States Forces on the Rio Grande at Brownsville; Texas Cavalry Brigade near Brownsville; Cavalry Forces of the 19th Army Corps at Morganzia, Louisiana; the 2nd Division, 13th Army Corps at Brownsville; the Department of the Gulf at New Orleans and at Alexandria, Louisiana; the Military Division of the Western Mississippi at New Orleans; and the War Department, Adjutant General, in Washington, D.C. These orders are mostly holographic, rarely printed.
Arrangement
These records are arranged by type of order (General, Special, or Circular), and therein chronologically.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Military orders, Union troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Military orders
box folder
401-859 4. General Orders, December 1863-February 1864
5. General Orders, March-October 1864
6. Special Orders, December 1863-April 1864
7. Special Orders, May-August 1864
8. Circulars, December 1863-September 1864
Monthly returns, 1855, 1865-1866,
fractional
These records consist of monthly returns for the 1st Regiment of Infantry, United States Army, stationed in or near Texas before, during, and after the Civil War, 1855 and 1865-1866. The one pre-Civil War return is for August 1855, for Colonel Joseph Plympton's command, with headquarters at Ft. McKavett, Texas. The other 14 returns date January through December 1865, and May and July 1866; these are Colonel Robert C. Buchanan's regiment, headquartered at New Orleans.
Information contained on these returns includes: stations of companies and names of company captains; numbers of officers and enlisted men present and absent, both by status (e.g., "sick") and by rank; alterations (gain/loss) since the last monthly return; numbers of horses and pieces of artillery; enlisted men on extra duty, accounted for by name; absent enlisted men accounted for by name; commissioned officers present and absent (names, ranks, and stations); and alterations among enlisted men since the last return (name, rank, company, date, place, and remarks).
Arrangement
These records are arranged chronologically.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Monthly returns, Union troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Monthly returns
oversize folder
401-968 12. August 1855
13. January-June 1865
14. July-December 1865
12. May, July 1866
Pay vouchers, 1860-1861,
fractional
These records consist of eight pay vouchers plus one abstract of payments made to United States troops by Lieutenant Colonel P. N. Luckett, Quartermaster and Acting Commissioner of the State of Texas, between November 1860 and March 1861. The officers paid include a captain and a 2nd lieutenant of the U.S. 2nd Cavalry, a 1st and a 2nd lieutenant of the U.S. 1st Infantry, and assistant surgeons of the U.S. Army; also, one corporal and one musician.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Pay vouchers, Union troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
box folder
401-859 9. Pay vouchers, 1860-1861
Morning report, 1862,
fractional
These records consist of one daily consolidated morning report of the 42nd Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, stationed at Long Island, New York (November-December 1862). A notation on the reverse reads: "To Colonel J. Y. Dashiell, Adjutant and Inspector General, Austin, from Brigadier General Thomas B. Howard."
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Morning report, Union troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
box folder
401-859 10. Morning report, 1862
Reports of guards, 1864-1865,
fractional
These records consist of a volume--without boards--containing reports of guards of the 1st Regiment, Texas Cavalry, United States Army, mounted at Brownsville and later at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, between April 6, 1864 and May 4, 1865. Information on the reports includes: numbers of officers and men of each rank; lists of articles in charge; lists of the guard of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd relief (with times of day indicated), by name, company, regiment, where posted, and remarks; the names of the sergeant, corporal, orderly for the commanding officer, and best shot; and a list of prisoners, by name, company, regiment, when and by whom confined, charges, sentence, and remarks.
Accession Information
Accession number: 1931/003
This record, along with the one immediately following, were "discovered... in an obscure corner of the basement of the State Department," and transferred to the Texas State Archives by Texas Secretary of State Jane Y. McCallum on November 5, 1931.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Reports of guards, Union troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
box folder
401-859 11. Reports of guards, 1864-1865
Hospital payroll, 1860-1861,
fractional
These records consist of one muster roll/pay roll for steward, wardmaster, cooks, nurses, matrons, and detached soldiers sick in the hospital for Fort Mason, December 31, 1860-February 28, 1861.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Hospital payroll, Union troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
map-case folder
401-1322 2. Hospital payroll, 1860-1861
Miscellaneous volume, 1863-1865,
fractional
These records consist of a volume that contains a variety of Union troop records, dated 1863-1865:
  • a roster of commissioned officers of the 2nd Regiment, Texas Cavalry Volunteers, stationed at Brownsville;
  • a descriptive list of Company A (and a fragmentary list for Company B), of the 2nd Regiment, Texas Cavalry Volunteers, including such information as name, rank, age, eyes, hair, complexion, height, birthplace, occupation, when, where, and by whom enrolled and mustered;
  • some copies of correspondence, 1863-1864;
  • receipts for ordnance stores, camp and garrison equipage, and quartermaster stores, March 1865; and
  • lists of issues to individual men.
A notation on the inside of the back cover of this volume reads: "G. H. Radetski, Captain Company M, 1st Texas Volunteer Cavalry, Morganzia, Louisiana, September 15, 1864."
Accession Information
Accession numbers: 1931/003
This volume was transferred to the Texas State Archives by the Texas Secretary of State on November 5, 1931.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Miscellaneous volume, Union troops records, Civil War records, Texas Adjutant General's Department. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
volume
401-998 Miscellaneous volume, 1863-1865