R. H. Porter Civil War collection, 1860-1975 (bulk, 1860-1866).

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R. H. Porter Civil War collection, 1860-1975 (bulk, 1860-1866).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61206013

The R. H. Porter Civil War Collection, 1860-1975 (bulk 1860-1866), consists of ephemera, photographs (mostly reproductions), manuscripts, government documents, original copies and photocopies of rare books, and pamphlets. Of note is the correspondence of Jefferson Davis; government documents printed by the Confederate States of America and the State of Texas; an original broadside copy of "An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of Texas and The Other States..." (1861); and a Camp Ford diary kept by a Union prisoner (1862-1864). The books from this collection are available in the Special Collections room and are searchable in the UTSA Library catalog.

16 linear inches (3 boxes and oversized items)

University of Texas at San Antonio, John Peace Library (JPL)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7793881

University of Texas at San Antonio, John Peace Library (JPL)

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Porter, R. H. (Rupert Howard)

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R. H. Porter, former president of the Steck Company, Austin, Texas and Texas Confederate history enthusiast, gathered a collection of approximately one thousand Texas Confederate and Civil War items during his lifetime. From the description of R. H. Porter Civil War collection, 1860-1975 (bulk, 1860-1866). (University of Texas at San Antonio). WorldCat record id: 61206013 ...