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University of Texas at Tyler Scholar Works at UT Tyler By Title Civil War Newspapers 2016 Galveston Weekly News, 1863 Vicki Betts University of Texas at Tyler, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/cw_newstitles Recommended Citation Betts, ickV i, "Galveston Weekly News, 1863" (2016). By Title. Paper 62. http://hdl.handle.net/10950/694 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Civil War Newspapers at Scholar Works at UT Tyler. It has been accepted for inclusion in By Title by an authorized administrator of Scholar Works at UT Tyler. For more information, please contact [email protected]. GALVESTON WEEKLY NEWS 1863 GALVESTON WEEKLY NEWS, January 7, 1863, p. 1, c. 1 We learn that a public meeting of the citizens of Fort Bend county, was held on the 22d inst., at which delegates were appointed to the currency convention to be held in this city in January next. At the same meeting, we learn it was resolved to make up four companies for local defence [sic], of members over 50 and under 18 years of age. A resolution was also passed fixing the number of negroes to be sent by the planters from that county, in response to Gen. Magruder's late proclamation, at one fourth of the able bodied men on each plantation, which it was supposed, would give the number required from that county. GALVESTON WEEKLY NEWS, January 7, 1863, p. 1, c. 1 Gunpowder.—We have been shown a sample of gunpowder manufactured by our friend A. Szabo at his mills in the vicinity of this city, that will compare favorably with the best rifle powder. Mr. Szabo is a Hungarian by birth, being one of the patriots who fought under Kossuth in Hungary's struggle for liberty, and became an exile in consequence. For a year or two after his arrival in the United States he was employed in a powder mill in the North where he became acquainted with the modus operandi of manufacturing powder. Mr. Szabo came to Texas in 1853 with the writer of this notice. Upon the establishment of the blockade of our ports wishing to turn his knowledge of powder making to some account to his adopted State as well as his own pecuniary interest, he made an effort to enlist capitalists of this city in the enterprise of establishing a powder mill in the vicinity of Houston, and he was compelled to embark alone to the extent of his limited means or abandon the enterprise altogether, and his enterprise prompted the former alternative, and after over a years perseverance his efforts have been crowned with success, and he is now prepared to turn out 100 or more pounds of superior powder daily. We trust the citizens of Texas, and Houston especially will appreciate and liberally reward such enterprise in the bestowal of their patronage. GALVESTON WEEKLY NEWS, January 7, 1863, p. 1, c. 5-6. List of Federal Prisoners of the 42d Mass. Regiment. Isaac S Burrell, Colonel; Lt Stowell, Co E; Rev A G Sanger, Chaplin. Co. "D"—Capt George Sherive, 1st Lieut Wm H Cowdin, 2d Lieut Darius F. Eddy, Sergts S A Waterman, Chas D Haye [?], Chas R. Todd, Wm E Humphrey, John W Davis, Corporals Chas C Richards, B Noyes, H W McIntosh, Chas J Oldham, Wm H Tilleston, B F Bean, L M Calhoun, Drummer Lewis Eddy, Privates A I Allen, W H Brown, W H Brown, W H Bullard, Wm H Batson, Chas Brown, C W Bailey, John Barnes, E Boardman, Wm Burke, Major Bacon, M Buckmaster, John Burns, C H Cushman, G T Clinton, D Dailey, J Drury, P Durham, T Ensle, G M Fiske, H Riske, J Fay, F Gour[illegible], C J Grinnell, A B Hoard, Thomas H Houghton, D. Howe, W A Josselyn, E F Joselyn, J Kopp, F La[illegible], F McConlon, R P Mosely, J T McElroy, F L Merrill, Jas Moore, A Nicholson, James O'Shaughnessy, B Pratt, G. Powers, L Preami, Gust Raymond, C Ryan, J S Russell, J Quinn, J H Stowell, H C Selein, S L Stoddard, D J Sullivan, Josiah Thomson, L Thayter, J Thomaston, D H Vining, C G Weymouth, G S Walls, G H Wight, J G Wight, A P Wright, Nat White, T Lannergan, F Howe, Wm B Lawnbee, W Rigby. Total, 79 and a runaway negro of Parry's machine shop. Co. "G."—Capt A N Proctor, 2d Lieut T H Newcomb, Sergeants L W Govdrech, P P Hackett, Corporals J W Buttrick, Seth E Cox, J E Birnup, Geo W Greggs, M Lincoln Jr, R G Thompson, G G Morrison, Drummers H W Chandles, D A Ireson, Privates S C Judkins, C F Allen, J Brownlow, C A Railey, J Brown, W H Rickus, C L Rarrot, C Rarrott, Chas Roardman, J M Bernard jr, T. O'Bryant, William M Bird, G Blairdell, J H Carz, J Carvey, J Cook, L S Copeland, F Carson, F Clark, F Coill, Wm Carter, G Crocker, G H Davis, J E Davis, J L Davis, G R Darz, wounded, E R Danble, wounded, D Dinngar, J G Emmerson, J Eaton, R Ellis, T Field, Benjamin Gould, J W Gordon, G S Hyde, A A Haydell, John Harmond, H T Horne, A A Holt, L Higgins, Chas Hilzer, A D Ireson, E P Johnson, F Knight, G W Hibby, A Kelly, C B Lynd, A W Lynd, Wm Logan, S Marshall, J Mullen, J H McAllister, C Paine, J W D Parker, D D Penney, J F Parrott, R R Pierce, D Roseline, M W Roberts, C W H Sanborn, A J Smart, T T Switzer, H G Studley, Wm Stilles, C H Upham, E A Venton, L Vincent, J W Vinal, J Vance, A F White, H J Withers, Wm B York, J R York. Total, 83. Co. "I"—Capt Cyrus Savage, 1st Lieut S F White, 2d Lieut B F Bartlett, Sergeants W H Hunt, J F Hewins, C B Sawyer, E Merrill, jr, C G Kenny, Corporals F M Adams, N H Bird, S H Bridgham, D Sloan, D H Walker, Privates M. Averill, E F Bryant, E J Baker, J Baker, E K Baker, J H Clements, Samuel Crowell, J W Chencey, P Cuddy, D Chapin, T Cantillon, J C Colson, T Dolan, T Delianty, C H Dodge, W C Elder, H W Eaten, J Elliot, G S Farnum, W S Farrington, J Floyd, G T Fernald, E S Gray, T Gidason, Chas Gleason, Geo Glover, jr, W [ililegible] Gardner, E. Helnets, L. Helnets, C Hennis, J A Hodgkins, F Huggins, A Hobbs, T F Igo, A A Knight, D Lannergan, C Littlefield, W B Lambert, F B Laury, J Mulgan, C Littlefield, W B Lambert, F. B Laury, J Mulry, T Morris, W Morgan, D Mahoney, Jas McGee, J W McLaughlin, T Noyes, N McCreary, L Mannix, S Nordinger, P Plummer, A Plummer, G L Pitman, G Proctor, J R Pratt, Chas Poole, Papit, E Ransom, A Robbins, G Richardson, E Smith, J Scaff, C Sumner, A Schrieder, G W Sloan, J Stanley, W Spargo, J Taylor, Jos Teeling, W H H Weeman, G W Wescott, O Willis, S Wood. Total, 88. List of Men Belonging to U.S. Steamer Harriet Lane. Wm Ray, A Conner, G W Dorse, J Dewit, A Steel, T Hammond, C Gibson, J Horrocks, E O'Brien, C Williams, J Clemmons, H F Paul, J Doudd, R Short, R Hahn, W Marlin, R Buckshan, F P Burk, J Hart, G Simmons, W Mesy, F Munson, A Walton, A O Cohn, W S Jacobus, Wm Smith, H Gordon, Robert Clifford, R N Conway, P Tarson, J Marshall, J Booshby, J Budd, W F Kinsill, H Schaffer, Wm Abbott, T McCaully, J Steel, J Kern, E Derryman, J Tolland, A Sternes, P McDonough, R Lewis, J Hutton, F Blanry, J Holton, W M Patterson, J Carlin, J Johnson, J Delargy, H Burnes, J Tailon, Wm Glonese, N Wheeler, colored, Thos Donovan, P Donovan, C Leonard, J Allison, J Salone, H Burrell, colored, G Brown, colored, T Penn, colored, R Jackson, Frank Jones, colored, M Connor, J Onry, T Gerry, Mich Dorgan, E Vanvelser, J Foley, Horace Lucas. Total, 71 and 6 negroes. GALVESTON WEEKLY NEWS, January 7, 1863, p. 1, c. 7 The Call for 2000 Negroes. We notice that Gen. Magruder has issued an order requesting planters to furnish 2000 negroes, with spades, shovels, &c., to assist in constructing defences [sic] for Galveston, so that it may not again fall into the hands of the enemy. $30 per month, with rations medicines, &c., will be given, together with transportation free both ways. The call is made upon Washington, Austin, Montgomery, Burleson, Travis, Fayette, Bastrop, Colorado, Polk, Liberty, Chambers, Orange, Fort Bend, Milam, Brazoria, Wharton, Matagorda and Robinson counties. Handbills are sent to all these counties. The committee organized for aiding in the coast defence [sic] endorse this call. A compliance with it without delay is absolutely necessary for the defence [sic] of the country, which cannot be defended so effectually in any other way as preventing the enemy from occupying our seaports. It is true this is the season when our planters should be preparing for their corps, but we presume the large force called for, if sent, will be able to expedite the work in a few days and return home. But our planters should bear in mind that the defence [sic] of Galveston is their own most effectual defence [sic], and that it is better for them to spare their hands a short time than to be driven from their homes by an invading enemy, as has been the lot of so many of the planters of Louisiana, who are now seeking homes in Texas.—Had their own seaport been properly defended, their plantations would have been saved from devastation and they would now have been quietly in possession of their own homes.