Victoria Regional History Center

Major Manuscript Collections

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• Captain Leander Poor Papers
  Union Army quartermaster (1st division, 4th Army Corps) stations at Port Lavaca / Indianola from January 1865-1866.
  Papers include:
  --Poor Daily Journal (facsimile copy), January 1-June 21, 1866
  Correspondence (facsimile copies), 1865-1866
• Charles August Leuschner Papers
  Charles August Leuschner (1845-1912, served in the Civil War under Company B, Sixth Texas Infantry
  Papers include:
  --Civil War Diary, 1864-1865
• George Tyng Papers
  George Tyng (1839-1906), cattle rancher, U.S. marshal, managing director of the Tehuantepec Inter-Ocean Railroad, miner, called "father" of the Panhandle.
  --Correspondence and business papers primarily concerning his mining and railroad interests, 1879-1903; Photographs