Part 7, Note 27

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Colorado County Police [Commissioners] Court Minutes, Book 1862-1876, pp. 92, 93, 94, 105; Colorado County Bond and Mortgage Records, Book F, pp. 150, 188; Galveston Daily News, February 9, 1867, February 15, 1867, May 4, 1867, November 15, 1867; George M. McCormick to Willis B. McCormick, May 15, 1867, Draper/McCormick Papers (Ms. 6), Archives of the Nesbitt Memorial Library. The cannon used to greet the train was undoubtedly that built by Andrew Jackson Nave during the Civil War. It was certainly used for other similar events in later years.