Correspondence : with Edgar Fahs Smith, 1904-1920.

ArchivalResource

Correspondence : with Edgar Fahs Smith, 1904-1920.

President, General Alumni Society.

62 items (74 leaves)

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Houston, Samuel H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b27vz5 (person)

Samuel Houston, Jr. (1843-1894) was the eldest of eight children of Sam and Margaret Moffette (Lea) Houston. Born at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, he attended Bastrop Military Institute (later the Texas Military Institute, Austin) but joined the Confederate Army in 1861 before he could finish. He fought at the Battle of Shiloh (1862). After his capture during the battle, he was incarcerated for several months at Camp Douglas. Upon the end of the Civil War, Houston stu...