April 29, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas)
Yesterday the sale of the negroes belonging to Gen. H. P. Bee, took place at the auction rooms of Col. J. S. Sydnor, and the prices ranged beyond those paid a week or two since. The number sold yesterday was 31, and the amount of the sale was between eighty-five and eighty-six thousand dollars. Women from 18 to 20 years of age, sold for $4000 and $4500. One woman with two small children sold for $5,700. Ordinary negro men brought over $4000. The lot was not an extraordinarily good one, though very fair, but the prices were unusually high.