urn:taro:ttu.sw.00120 Confederate States of America, Army, Military Commission: An Inventory of the Collection, 1862, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Texas Tech University MS 41041 Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806) 742-3749 Fax: (806) 742-0496 Webpage: http://swco.ttu.edu Contact Person: Reference Archivist
August 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, October 2000. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:22:41 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00120 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Confederate States of America, Army, Military Commission Collection, 1862 Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, August 2000 Descriptive Summary Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America, Army, Military Commission Collection, 1862 The papers consist of photocopies of hand written proceedings of the Confederate Military Commission from July 2 - October 10, 1862. S 196.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 wallet (0.2 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

This was a military commission appointed in 1862 by General P. O. Hebert to hear cases in San Antonio, Texas, of persons arrested because of Union sympathies, chiefly among German Texans, during the Civil War. Texas served the Confederate States of America during the war between the states.

 Scope and Contents

The collection contains photocopies of hand written proceedings of the Confederate Military Commission (July 2 - October 10, 1862) concerning Union sympathizers in Texas at the beginning of the Civil War. The original papers are held in the Texas State Archive in Austin, Texas.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Organizations) Confederate States of America. Army Places Confederate States of America United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--German Americans Subjects German Americans--Texas Military courts--Texas--San Antonio Acquisition

Gift, 1970s

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, August 2000

 Preferred Citation

Confederate States of America, Army, Military Commission Collection, 1862, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas