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Box 1

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Civil War correspondence from Power (2 items), 1861-1865

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains agricultural, mathematical, and personal notes; religious meditations; correspondence; and a few legal and business papers. There are also some papers of one of Power's sons, Holloway Bunyan Power, born in 1834 in Alabama. He also was a farmer, and upon his father's death on November 6, 1866, he succeeded him as a preacher for Bethany Baptist Church. Some of the records of the church are included with this collection.

Dates: 1861-1865

Letter from Holloway Lee Power in Nacogdoches Co. to Hummel Charms (?) re: secession (includes draft of letter with religious notes), c.1861

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains agricultural, mathematical, and personal notes; religious meditations; correspondence; and a few legal and business papers. There are also some papers of one of Power's sons, Holloway Bunyan Power, born in 1834 in Alabama. He also was a farmer, and upon his father's death on November 6, 1866, he succeeded him as a preacher for Bethany Baptist Church. Some of the records of the church are included with this collection.

Dates: c.1861

Letter from Holloway Lee Power in Nacogdoches Co. to his son Holloway Bunyan Power "while in the army" re: baptism, 1865

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains agricultural, mathematical, and personal notes; religious meditations; correspondence; and a few legal and business papers. There are also some papers of one of Power's sons, Holloway Bunyan Power, born in 1834 in Alabama. He also was a farmer, and upon his father's death on November 6, 1866, he succeeded him as a preacher for Bethany Baptist Church. Some of the records of the church are included with this collection.

Dates: 1865