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(Identify the item and cite the series), Berta Boardman Maxcy Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Though the Berta Boardman Maxcy Collection provides information on a number of individuals, the principal subject of the collection is Doctor George Thomasson Boardman. Boardman was born in London, England, April 14, 1827, and emigrated to the United States in 1841. He became a dentist, receiving his professional education at Cincinnati Dental College. In 1850, Dr. Boardman moved to Austin, Texas, where he married Frances E. Goodrich on November 10, 1859. Four children, Mary Goodrich, John Sterling, Anna Thourton, and Berta Kate, were born of this union.
On March 15, 1862, Dr. Boardman enlisted in the Confederate Army. He served in the 16th Texas Infantry and participated in the Trans-Mississippi campaign. Dr. Boardman returned to Austin in May 1865 and resumed his dental practice there. He died in Austin January 18, 1884 and is buried at Oakwood Cemetery.
The Berta Boardman Maxcy Collection contains materials concerning members of the Boardman and Maxcy families, both residing in Austin, produced between 1841 and 1926, with some undated material. The most important part of the collection is George T. Boardman's five-part diary which chronicles his three years of service in the Army of the Confederate States of America (March 1862 - May 1865). The collection also contains photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings which document the history of the Boardman and Maxcy families with particularly strong coverage for the period 1890 - 1900. These are the family papers held by Miss Maxcy at the time of her death in 1978.
The core of the collection is the soldier's diary kept by Berta's grandfather, Dr. George T. Boardman, between March, 1862 and May, 1865. The diary, in five parts, recounts Dr. Boardman's experiences as a private soldier and as brigade dentist in the Trans-Mississippi Campaign. As a soldier Boardman served in Company G of the 16th Texas Infantry, George Fournoy's Regiment, William Read Scurry's Brigade, William Walker's Division. With his regiment, Boardman marched through East Texas (Houston, Navasota, Tyler, Palestine) and into Arkansas (Arkadelphia, Little Rock, Pine Bluff) in the spring of 1862. In April, 1863 the 16th Texas entered northern Louisiana and passed the duration of the war there (Shreveport, Alexandria, Grand Ecore, Delhi, Monticello, Minden, and Mansfield). Personal references in the diary center on Boardman's comrades-in-arms, his captain, Fred Moore, and private soldiers M. L. McFarland, Ed Christian, Wilcox Powell, Zac Walker, Jack Smith, Ben Goodrich, T. J. Campbell, and I. F. Hutchins, all of Austin and Travis County. The majority of the entries are Boardman's comments on camp life, on the countryside, and on his sentiments about the war. The back pages of each part contain accounts of Boardman's expenses.
The collection also contains family correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings generated by or dealing with the Boardman and Maxcy families in Texas, Tennessee, California, and Illinois. The correspondence is dispersed with five items spanning the period 1841 to 1926. Three pre-Civil War items give a view of activities of the Boardman family before it settled in Texas. The photographs are of Berta Boardman Maxcy's relatives in the period 1870 - 1890. Newspaper clippings contain family obituaries and accounts of Anna Maxcy's career as an actress in Austin's local theater in 1891 and 1892.
The collection is organized into four series:
David Block, April 1981
Accession numbers: 1979/031, 1981/149
The collection was donated to the Texas State Archives on November 2, 1978 and April 29, 1981 by Mamie B. Ward, a friend of Berta Boardman Maxcy.
This series consists of five diaries of George T. Boardman, dating from March 1862 to May 1865, regarding his experiences and perceptions during the Civil War while serving in the Trans-Mississippi campaigns of the 16th Texas Infantry. Boardman makes observations on camp life, on the countryside of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, on military engagements in which he took part, and on his impressions of distant events of the war such as the fall of Vicksburg, Lee's surrender, and Lincoln's assassination.
The diaries are arranged chronologically.
(Identify the item), Civil War diaries of George T. Boardman, Berta Boardman Maxcy Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession number: 1979/031
The collection was donated to the Texas State Archives on November 2, 1978 by Mamie B. Ward, a friend of Berta Boardman Maxcy.
Papers are correspondence, lists of births, marriages, and deaths from a family Bible, a memorandum, obituaries, resolutions, and artifacts, dating from 1841 to 1926, with some undated material, relating to the Boardman family. Correspondence includes pre-Civil War letters of Boardman family in Tennessee and a letter from Thurlow B. Weed with a sketch of the Boardman family plot in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin (Tex.). Resolutions were adopted by Milam Lodge 200 of the Odd Fellows on the death of G.T. Boardman. The memorandum chronicles the English branch of the family. Dates from the family Bible and memorandum cover 1758 to 1891. Also included is a Civil War-era buckle and sash which likely belonged to George T. Boardman.
Arranged by type of material.
(Identify the item), Boardman family materials, Berta Boardman Maxcy Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession numbers: 1979/031, 1981/149
The collection was donated to the Texas State Archives on November 2, 1978 and April 29, 1981 by Mamie B. Ward, a friend of Berta Boardman Maxcy.
Papers are newspaper clippings, a literary production, and a legal document, dating from 1864-1923. Materials touch on the history of the Maxcy family of Austin, Texas and are clippings from Austin newspapers detailing Anna Maxcy's career in local theater, newspaper obituaries of Maxcy family members, a poem dedicated to Berta Boardman Maxcy, and James Maxcy Collier's will.
Arranged by type of material.
(Identify the item), Maxcy family materials, Berta Boardman Maxcy Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession number: 1979/031
The collection was donated to the Texas State Archives on November 2, 1978 by Mamie B. Ward, a friend of Berta Boardman Maxcy.
executed, 1923
These are photographs (including portraits and snapshots) and a painting of Boardman and Maxcy family members dating from 1870 to 1884 and undated. Subjects include Anna Boardman, George T. Boardman, Ida May Boardman, John Boardman, John Herbert Boardman, Eliza Boardman Burns, Carl Boardman Drake, Berta Boardman Maxcy, and other unidentified persons. The painting of George T. Boardman has been missing for a number of years.
Unidentified photographs are listed following the identified photos. The painting is listed at the end, although its location is not known.
(Identify the item), Images of Boardman and Maxcy family members, Berta Boardman Maxcy Collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession numbers: 1979/031, 1981/149
The collection was donated to the Texas State Archives on November 2, 1978 and April 29, 1981 by Mamie B. Ward, a friend of Berta Boardman Maxcy.
Researchers are required to wear gloves provided by the Archives when reviewing photographic materials.
[Missing, July 2001]