This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Cotton Seed Oil News and War Memoir Reflections
A mixed report covers steamship cargoes including 9086 sacks of cotton seed meal. Fires destroy mills in Mississippi and North Carolina. market reports and exchanges plan broader coverage. It includes a Texas soldier’s wartime reminiscences of Houston and Galveston campaigns, distillery raids, Christmas eggnog with officers, and local business notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Frederick
New Orleans
Hamburg
Sherman
Texas
Memphis Cotton Exchange
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Walmsly
Houston
Mecca
Mexico
Velasco
Bates
Old Caney
Matagorda Bay
Gulf
Sabine Pass
Dick Dowling
Cedar Lake
Brazos River
Aspel Smith
Colonel Smith
Col. Smith
Eggnogg
Mud Island
Galveston