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Clellan, the commander of the Federal Army of the Potomac. The es-
says suggest that the Confederates lacked the numbers and morale to
risk a battle north of the Potomac and that, in Krick's words, Lee's de-
termination to fight "must be adjudged one of his worst decisions of the
war" (p. 52). Only McClellan's failure to press his advantage and defi-
ciencies as a tactician saved the Rebels from destruction, which might
have ended the war. Still, the Union victory gave President Abraham
Lincoln the opportunity he had been seeking to issue the preliminary
Emancipation Proclamation on September 22.
Accessions
The Archives Division of the Texas State Library recently acquired
and has made available for research two major resources for ethnic
studies: records of the Texas Indian Commission and the Good Neigh-
bor Commission. Created in 1965, the Commission for Indian Affairs
took over all state and federal responsibilities for the Alabama-Coushatta
Reservation. The commission later took on responsibility for the Tigua
Indians of El Paso, recognized as a Texas Indian tribe in 1967, and, in
1977, the Traditional Kikapoo Indians of Texas (Eagle Pass area). The
Texas Indian Commission (the name was changed in 1975) was to de-
velop human and economic resources of the Alabama-Coushatta and
Tigua Reservations and assist the Tribal Councils in making the reser-
vations self-sufficient. It also assisted these Indians and state-chartered
intertribal Indian organizations with applications for and management
of private grants, federal funds, and programs. The federal govern-
ment reassumed responsibility for Texas Indians with a law passed Au-
gust 18, 1987. Legislation to prolong the commission failed to pass, and
the agency was abolished as of September i, 1989. Records transferred
to the State Archives cover the years 1959-1989 and include materials
concerning the Alabama-Coushatta and Tigua Reservations, the Texas
Intertribal Housing Agency, Governors' Interstate Indian Council re-
ports, Commission minutes, and Sunset Advisory Commission hearings.
Texas adopted a Good Neighbor Policy in 1943, calling for equal
treatment of Latin Americans residing in or visiting the state. The pol-
icy was formalized over the next few years with the establishment of the
Good Neighbor Commission, first as a temporary and then as a per-
manent state agency. Mandated to promote inter-American relations
and improve the conditions of persons of Latin American ancestry in
the state, the Commission spent much of its early years dealing with
discrimination and related problems. The commission secured schol-
arships for Texas and Latin American students, established the Pan125
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