(CIVIL WAR TEXAS) Duty roster of Company B 1st Texas Cavalr

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(CIVIL WAR--TEXAS.) Duty roster of Company B, 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment, U.S.A. [24] manuscript pages of Civil War records from 1864 plus [16] pages of later memoranda dated 1880-82. 12mo, contemporary wrappers, moderate wear; minor dampstaining. Vp, 1864-82

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The 1st Texas Cavalry was formed in November 1862 from Texan Union sympathizers, many of them of German, Irish, or Mexican descent. The largest of the Union Texan regiments, they were stationed in Louisiana through the conclusion of the war. The first section of this notebook is a 13-page duty roster listing the soldiers assigned to guard, picket, scout, and fatigue duty each day for most of August 1864. In the back is an 11-page register of supplies issued to each soldier from January through October (presumably also 1864), including haversacks, shelter tents, ponchos, and canteens.
The book was used by a girl named Lucy A. Slaughter as a commonplace book from 1880 to 1882. She was daughter of Captain Augustine Slaughter of Company B. She wrote out a list of students at Pleasant Hill, TX near Austin, as well as several original poems and two pencil drawings.
Provenance: presumably (see lot 99) by descent from Captain Augustine Benjamin Slaughter (1830-1866) to daughter Lucy Slaughter (1866-1883), her sister Cora Slaughter Barton McCulloch (1856-1943), and her grandson Barton Watson (1922-1991) of Buda, TX; thence sold to Gerald Fox in March 1958.