Descriptive Summary
Holmsley, James
Monroe
James Monroe Holmsley
Papers
1861-1898
3 inches.
Center for
American History, The University of Texas at
Austin
English
Biographical InformationJames Monroe Holmsley was
commanding officer of Company G, 1st Regiment, Texas Mounted Rifleman and
commander of Camp Colorado (1861-1862) in Coleman County, Texas.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, military orders, legal and financial reports, literary
production and photographs relate to James Monroe Holmsley as a Confederate
officer and post-war merchant and cattleman in Comanche, Texas.
Cite as:
James Monroe Holmsley Papers, 1861-1898, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,
The University of Texas at Austin.
Index Terms
Persons:
Holmsley, James
Monroe--Archives
Subjects:
Confederate States of America
Army--Officers--Archives
Confederate States of America
Army Texas Mounted Riflemen Regiment, 1st Company G.
Coleman County
(Tex.)--History--Sources.
Confederate States of
America--History--Sources
Comanche
(Tex.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.
Cattle
breeders--Texas.
Inventory
2E248
Correspondence,
October 1861 - May 6, 1898, undated
2E248
Legal documents,
July 21, 1862 - February 19, 1881
2E248
Financial reports
2E248
Receipts,
September 20, 1873-August 8, 1882
2E248
Wichita Savings Bank account record,
September 14 - November 21, 1874
2E248
Promissory notes,
September 4, 1871 - October 11, 1872
2E248
Personal check,
July 12, 1898
2E248
Literary efforts:
2E248
Essay on Texas Indians,
undated
2E248
Essay on Juan Nepomuceno Almonte,
undated
2E248
Transcript of essay on Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, undated
2E248
Printed material,
undated
2E248
Company G, 1st Regiment, Texas Mounted Riflemen, Army,
Confederate States of America:
2E248
Muster rolls,
April [?], December 24, 1864
2.325/V7
Monthly returns,
August, December, 1861, August, 1862
2.325/V7
Commissioned officers present and absent,
January 31, 1861, June 1862
2E248
Abstract of articles transferred and officers present,
1862
2E248
General and Special Orders,
May 11, 1861 - May 3, 1864
2E248
Quartermaster's records:
2E248
Reports:
2.325/V7
February 29, 1862
2E248
November 4, 1861 - July 1864, undated
2.325/V7
March 31, 1864
2.325/V7
Receipts:
2.325/V7
January 3, 1862
2.325/V7
June 1, 1862- January 1, 1864, and undated
2.325/V7
Monthly statements of funds received and disbursed at
Fort Clark, Texas,
February 1863
2E248
Soldiers certificated of disability,
September 24, 1862 - February 11, 1864
2E248
Inventory of the personal effects of Norman Grisham,
deceased,
January 2, 186[?]
3T84
Photographs:
3T84
James Monroe Holmsley house, Comanche, Texas [two
views]
3T84
James Monroe Holmsley (1838-1881), Thomas Jefferson
Holmsley (1834-1903), and Mr. [?] Kingsberry