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Chapter Links
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission website: telegram to Governor Sayers from citizens of Galveston regarding the calamity that had just struck their city. See “Texas Rising” link for short bios of various governors, including Joseph D. Sayers, and Handbook of Texas online article.
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Two eyewitness accounts of the “nights of horrors:” letter written by John D. Blagden to his family in Duluth, Minnesota, while serving a temporary assignment at the Galveston Weather Bureau office (aside from Isaac Cline's personal report, Blagden's letter is the only other account at the Rosenberg Library of someone stationed at the Weather Bureau office).
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A letter to S. W. T. Lanham, Governor of Texas, from County Judge of Cameron County, regarding an “unprovoked, wanton, and malicious attack upon our people and our homes” that occurred in 1906, allegedly by twelve African American enlisted men and became a national incident after President Theodore Roosevelt gave dishonorable discharges to all 167 African American enlisted men.
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