Reading Wood Black Papers 1847-1892, 1934

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Reading Wood Black Papers 1847-1892, 1934

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01073/01073-P.html

Papers of Black include correspondence, diaries, business papers, legal papers, obituaries, and photographs of Black and his family, as well as correspondence between Mary Wills and Jane Black after Black’s murder.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Black, Reading W. (Reading Wood), 1830-1867

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Reading Wood Black (1830-1867) of Uvalde, Texas, was alandowner and merchant at the head of the Leon River, a commissioner to the Comanche and Kickapoo Indians, and a member of the Texas Legislature (1866). His opposition to treatment of German settlers by Confederate soldiers caused him to flee as a refugee to Mexico during the Civil War. Tom Wall killed Black, who had aroused local resentment by his Unionism and attempts to found a Loyal Union League in Uvalde. From the guide to th...