Hiram and Thomas Thomson Taylor papers, 1836.

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Hiram and Thomas Thomson Taylor papers, 1836.

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Papers of Hiram and Thomas Thomson Taylor consist of a photocopy of a letter written by Hiram Taylor to his wife, Mary Thomson Taylor of Freehold, N.J., and three drafts of a typewritten copy of the letter. Written from Texas during Hiram Taylor's participation in the revolution of 1836, the letter expresses Taylor's ardent unhappiness at being separated from his wife and describes his tumultuous journey to Texas by ship. Later portions of the letter tell of visits to the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, still strewn with decaying corpses, and to a prison at Galveston Bay where Mexican prisoners captured in the battle were kept. Taylor goes on to describe in detail the landscape and climate of Texas. The papers also include a document on microfilm that contains a biographical sketch of Thomas Thomson Taylor and a genealogy of the Taylor family.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Taylor family.

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Taylor, Thomas Thomson, 1836-1908

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An Ohio native, Thomas Thomson Taylor enlisted in the Company I of the 12th Ohio Infantry Regiment at Georgetown, Oh., at the beginning of the Civil War and later raised a company that was mustered into the 47th Regiment as Company F. Rising to the rank of colonel, Taylor participated in the the siege and capture of Vicksburg, Miss., and fought at Missionary Ridge, Tenn., and Larkin's Landing, Alabama. Taylor subsequently joined in the Atlanta Campaign and participated in Sherman's March to the ...

Taylor, Hiram, 1800-1845

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Born in New Jersey in 1800, Hiram Taylor was a member of a group of American volunteers who assisted Texans in the revolution of 1836. He died in Texas in 1845. His son, Thomas Thomson Taylor, served as a colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War, participating in the siege and capture of Vicksburg, Miss., and in Sherman's March to the Sea. Following the war, Taylor relocated to Lake Charles, La., where he worked as a lawyer and newspaper editor. From the description of Hir...

Taylor, Mary Thomson.

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