Hood's Minstrels were an amateur Texas-based blackface Confederate military band, of the Texas Brigade, during the American Civil War,McMurry, pg. 31 who began performing in a log cabin theater that they built themselves in 1862; they performed in it alongside a choir and a brass band. They were the most popular group of their kind during the War.Abel, pg. 167 Members included Mollie and Gus Bailey.Texas Escapes
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