May 28, 1863, The Ranchero (Corpus Christi, Texas)
We learn from the True Issue that the Chief Justice of Fayette county has invested nine thousand dollars of the State bounty for the relief of soldier’s families, into cotton and shipped it to the Rio Grande, there to be converted into necessary supplies and returned to Fayette. This example is worthy of imitation. If the Chief Justices of all the counties would take the amount placed in their hands by the State for the relief of soldier’s families, and do likewise, there would be a relief, indeed, to the family of the soldier.