Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of six wartime letters exchanged between Wilhelm Jacob Steubing, a private in Company B, 26th Texas Cavalry and his wife Nancy J. Steubing at the family home in Hopkinsville, Texas, during the American Civil War. Wilhelm Steubing's first letter, written from Sabine Pass (Jefferson County), Texas, on April 29, 1863, notes that the "Yankeys" have taken Alexandria and expresses doubt that the Confederates can stop Union forces from taking Austin, while...