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Overview

Agency History

Scope and Contents of the Records

Organization of the Records

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Description of Series

Texas State Troops records, 1861-1865, undated,

Confederate records, 1861-1865, undated,

Union troops records, 1855, 1860-1866 (bulk 1863-1864),

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.
LanguageEnglish.

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.

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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).

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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)

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

None.

Restrictions on Use

None.

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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.

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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

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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

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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
boxfolder
401-8251-2. 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
boxfolder
401-8261.15th 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
boxfolder
401-8271-5.23rd 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
boxfolder
401-8281-6.29th 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.
oversizefolder
401-96811.General information on brigades (oversized)
boxfolder
401-82823.General information on brigades
23A.Blank forms
boxfolder
401-123419.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
boxfolder
401-8291-4. 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
boxfolder
401-82917. 1861
18-20. 1862
21-24. 1863
25-27. 1864
28. 1865
Multiple copies of military orders
boxfolder
401-82824. 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
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401-8301-3. 1861
4. 1862
5. 1863
6. 1864-1865, undated
Ranger regimental poll books
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401-8307. December 1862
8. January-March 1863
Court martial proceedings
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401-8309.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
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401-83015. 1862
16. 1863-1864
17. March and December 1864
Special Orders
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401-83018. 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
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401-8311.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
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401-13201. April, June-October, December 1862
2. January, March-August, October-December 1863
Powers of attorney
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401-8315.David Stiff
6.J. J. Keith
7.John Salmon
8.James Paul
9. Others, 1861-1862
10. Others, 1863
Reports of hired persons
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401-83111.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
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401-83138.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.
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401-83144.Register, Texas General Hospital, Quitman, Mississippi, 1862-1863
45.Lists of casualties, Gaines Mill, Virginia and Vicksburg, 1862-1863
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401-96811.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
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401-8321. Austin, 1861
2-6. Austin, 1862
7-13. Austin, January-June 1863
14-21. Austin, July-December 1863
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401-8331-5.Austin, January-March 1864
6-10.Austin, April-June 1864
11-18. Austin, July-September 1864
19-21. Austin, October-December 1864
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401-8341-6. 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
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401-8351-3.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
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401-8361. 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)
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401-8371-2.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
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401-8381-3.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
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401-8391. 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
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401-83911.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
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401-83932.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
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401-83941. 1861-1862, 1864
Quartermaster returns: location not given
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401-8401. 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