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San Antonio Ledger 1851 copy finds a memory aid
A 1851 San Antonio Ledger issue found among Captain Ed Braden’s effects resurfaces a city paper devoted to Agriculture Literature Miscellany and State interests. It shows enslaved people for sale, chattel auctions, and notices of ships, bridges, merchants, and frontier life with Matamoros siege and Texas politics.
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San
Vanderlip and Hewitt
Ledger
Matamoros
Mexico
Laredo
United States
Harney
Republic
M. H. Campbell
Bob
Captain Wheeler
Victoria
Arthur 8
McIntyre
James Newcomb
H. Arnold
Harriet
John Vance
San Antonio
Richard Patrick and Company
Europe
J. M. Devine
New Orleans
A. A. Lockwood
C. J. Cook and Company
Main Plaza
Commerce Street
Indianola
Port Lavaca
Gulf Line
Texas
Pope Street
A. J. Leslie and Company
Owens and Sutton
E. V. Howard
Congress
Washington, D. C
Dashiell
Fort Mason
Johnson
Jose Maria J. Carvajal
Army of
Avalos
Carvajal
J. W. Phels