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Map of the Butterfield Trail, Through Taylor County, Texas

Description: Map of the Butterfield Trail mail route in Taylor County, Texas, in service between September 1858 and 1861, from St. Louis, Missouri, to San Fransisco, California. Map includes water bodies, blocks of land, and other geologic features, with relief shown in hachures. Scale ca. 1:82,368
Date: November 1924
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Confederate_Veteran_Ledger_Large

Description: A ledger assembled between 1892-1895 containing a list of Confederate Veterans in the Abilene-Taylor County area of West Texas. The first pages list name, rank, current age at time of membership, company regiment, service date, brigade, army, whether wounded and whether a prisoner or not, place of birth, and name of the state where the individual enlisted. Notes of service include such information as "Was captured on British Steamer" or "Paroled at Vicksburg." The minutes in this ledger are dat… more
Date: 1892/1895
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[Letter from Lyle Thoburn to T. N. Carswell - November 25, 1964]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Lyle Thoburn, President, The Bowman Products Company, Cleveland, Ohio 44101, dated November 25, 1964. Thoburn advises of his agreement with Carswell that it was regretful Bob Taft was not elected instead of Johnson. He adds that it is of interest that Carswell's father and uncle and Thoburn's grandfather were all wounded in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
Date: November 25, 1964
Creator: Thoburn, Lyle
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