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Board of Veterans Journal
The Board of Veterans Records include 2 items. The Board of Veterans Journal is a summary of the review and approval or rejection of applicants by the board created by the Acts of 1879 and 1881. The Abstract of Claims is a loose collection of spreadsheet pages with one column for the "name of applicant" and a second for "action of Board."Categories
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Camp Fannin Cultural Resources Collection
Located outside of Winona, Texas, near Tyler, Texas in Smith County, Camp Fannin Army Training Camp was in operation from 1943-1946. The Camp Fannin Cultural Resources Collection contains artifacts, subject files, and a draft Cultural Resources Report.Categories
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Court of Claims Records
The Texas Court of Claims was an administrative body created to perform a thorough audit of certificates that had already been issued, as well as to review claims and issue original, duplicate, and unlocated balance certificates to those who provided substantial evidence. The Court of Claims Records contain reports and correspondence in 5 series: Court of Claims Files (1856-1861) , Court of Claims Reports (1856-1861), Unlocated Balance Certificates (January 1856 - July 1859), Commissioners of Claims Letters (1856-1861), Supporting Documents (1856-1861).Categories
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Dudley H. Ward Civil War Letters
Dudley H. Ward (1845-1864) Confederate soldier and prisoner of war, was born in 1845 in Austin, Texas. The Dudley Ward Papers, 1863-1864, contains correspondence and one parole certificate documenting Ward's experience as a Confederate soldier at the Seige of Vicksburg, in camps in Mississippi and Texas, and in Galveston during the yellow fever epidemic.Categories
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Ken Towery Papers
Ken Towery (1923- ), Pultizer Prize-winning Texas reporter and former POW, was born in 1923 in Monroe County, Mississippi. His papers contain newspapers, clippings, magazines, and moving images documenting his investigation of the Veterans Land Board Scandal in 1954-1955.Categories
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Land Office Commonplace Book
This commonplace book centers on a theme of veterans and land grant information. The book contains sections organized by military unit or battle. There are transcriptions of legislation relating to land, the legislative history of Texas counties and a section listing the fees of the General Land Office. It may have been used by Texas Ranger Captain James E. Lucy to investigate land-title fraud in Texas during the 1870s.Categories
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Neel Family Civil War Papers
T.C. Neel (1825-1863), signer of the Texas Articles of Secession and member of the Texas House and Senate, was born in Sparta, Georgia in 1825. The Neel Family Civil War Papers, 1833-1900, contain family correspondence, a document, a photograph and two published pamphlets.Categories
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Rufus Brooks Mann Civil War Letters
Rufus Brooks Mann (1832-1902), educator, Texas Ranger, and Confederate soldier, was born in North Carolina in 1832. His papers contain correspondence between Mann and his wife and personal documents.Categories
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Texas General Land Office Vertical Files
The Vertical Files are an artificial collection of newspaper articles, research articles, historical articles, ephemera, etc., documenting the functions and the records of the General Land Office throughout Texas history organized alphabetically by subject.Categories
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- Admininstrative Papers
- Maps and Sketches
- VLB
- Titles/Deeds/Patents
- City Lots
- School
- Reports/Index
- Ledgers
- Land Grant Programs
- Surveyor Related
- County Related
- Spanish Collection
- Veterans
- Confederate Collections
- Railroad
- Defunct Agencies
- Manuscript Collections
- German-related
- Mineral Related
- Legal Documents
- Scrap
- Colony Records
- Contracts
- Correspondence