Civil War In Texas And The Southwest
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Civil War In Texas And The Southwest
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Author : Col USA Roy Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2007-07-02
Civil War In Texas And The Southwest written by Col USA Roy Sullivan and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-02 with History categories.
How Did Texas Survive The Civil War? More specifically, how did Texas manage to repulse invading Union armies? And why were there no major battles like Antietam, Shiloh or Gettysburg fought in Texas? Answers include that Texas was too far, too large and that Texans (over 80,000 fought in that terrible struggle) were too feisty. The Civil War in Texas and the Southwest answers the above while shedding new light on Texan audacity, bravery and just plain luck. Part one of the book provides a chronology of the tragically unsuccessful 1861-1862 invading expedition of Confederate General Sibleys Texas volunteers into New Mexico and Arizona. Sibley grandiously called his brigade the Confederate Army of New Mexico. Of the 3,700 Texans who left San Antonio on this campaign, only 2,000 stumbled back the next year. Part two contains little-known stories about failed Union efforts to conquer southern and eastern Texas between 1863-1865. For example, Galveston was occupied by Union forces in 1862, then recaptured during a six hour battle on New Years Day 1863. Further up the Texas coast at Sabine Pass, a Union flotilla of four warships, twenty-two troop transports loaded with 5,000 invasion troops was defeated by a young red-headed Irish Texan lieutenant and his 40 immigrant cannoneers from Eire. And who knows that 300 Texans repulsed 500 better-armed and provisioned Union troops at Palmito ranch in the southern tip of Texas? Palmito was the last battle of the war and was actually fought after Lees surrender. Author Sullivans previous, acclaimed book, Scattered Graves: The Civil War Campaigns of Confederate General and Cherokee Chief Stand Waitie, depicts Waties leadership and hit-and-run tactics. He was the only Indian to be promoted to general on either side and was also the last Confederate general to surrender. Both books are available through Authorhouse.
The Texas Navies
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Author : Roy Sullivan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-01-01
The Texas Navies written by Roy Sullivan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Mexico, Gulf of categories.
Civil War In The Southwest
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Author : Jerry D. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2001
Civil War In The Southwest written by Jerry D. Thompson and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Written "to set the record straight," these veterans' stories provide colorful accounts of the bloody battles of Valverde, Glorieta, and Peralta, as well as details fo the soldier's tragic and painful retreat back to Texas in the summer of 1862.
Crisis In The Southwest
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Author : Richard Bruce Winders
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2002
Crisis In The Southwest written by Richard Bruce Winders and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
The war between the United States and Mexico was decades in the making. Although Texas was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845, Texans retained an affiliation with the United States that virtually assured annexation at some point. Mexico's reluctance to give up Texas put it on a collision course with the United States. The Mexican War receives scant treatment in books. Most historians approach the conflict as if it were a mere prelude to the Civil War. The Mexican cession of 1848, however, rivaled the Louisiana Purchase in importance for the sheer amount of territory acquired by the United States. The dispute over slavery-which had been rendered largely academic by the Missouri Compromise-burst forth anew as Americans now faced the realization that they must make a decision over the institution's future. The political battle over the status of slavery in these new territories was the direct cause of the Crisis of 1850 and ignited sectional differences in the decade that followed. In Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas, Richard Bruce Winders provides a concise, accessible overview of the Mexican War and argues that the Mexican War led directly to the Civil War by creating a political and societal crisis that drove a wedge between the North and the South. While on the surface the enemy was Mexico, in reality Americans were at odds with one another over the future of the nation, as the issue of annexation threatened to upset the balance between free and slave states. Winders also explains the military connections between the Mexican War and Civil War, since virtually every important commander in the Civil War-including Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Grant, McClellan, and Longstreet-gained his introduction to combat in Mexico. These connections are enormously significant to the way in which these generals waged war, since it was in the Mexican War that they learned their trade. Crisis in the Southwest provides readers with a clear understandin
When The Texans Came
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Author : John Philip Wilson
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2001
When The Texans Came written by John Philip Wilson and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Newly-available records from the Civil War in the Southwest, drawn from both Union and Confederate sources, give a much-improved understanding of that period through the words of those who shaped and participated in events at that time.
Texas Mexico The Civil War The Southwest C
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Author : Brick Row Book Shop (Austin, Tex.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Texas Mexico The Civil War The Southwest C written by Brick Row Book Shop (Austin, Tex.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Booksellers and bookselling categories.
The Seventh Star Of The Confederacy
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Author : Kenneth Wayne Howell
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2009
The Seventh Star Of The Confederacy written by Kenneth Wayne Howell and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
On February 1, 1861, delegates at the Texas Secession Convention elected to leave the Union. The people of Texas supported the actions of the convention in a statewide referendum, paving the way for the state to secede and to officially become the seventh state in the Confederacy. Soon the Texans found themselves engaged in a bloody and prolonged civil war against their northern brethren. During the curse of this war, the lives of thousands of Texans, both young and old, were changed forever. This new anthology, edited by Kenneth W. Howell, incorporates the latest scholarly research on how Texans experienced the war. Eighteen contributors take us from the battlefront to the home front, ranging from inside the walls of a Confederate prison to inside the homes of women and children left to fend for themselves while their husbands and fathers were away on distant battlefields, and from the halls of the governor’s mansion to the halls of the county commissioner’s court in Colorado County. Also explored are well-known battles that took place in or near Texas, such as the Battle of Galveston, the Battle of Nueces, the Battle of Sabine Pass, and the Red River Campaign. Finally, the social and cultural aspects of the war receive new analysis, including the experiences of women, African Americans, Union prisoners of war, and noncombatants.
Blood Treasure
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Author : Donald Shaw Frazier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Blood Treasure written by Donald Shaw Frazier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Tells the story of the Confederacy's ambitious attempt to conquer the Southwestern territories of New Mexico and Arizona, with Texas troops led by Lieutenant Colonel (and later Arizona governor) John R. Baylor, and General H.H. Sibley.
Spartan Band
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Author : Thomas Reid
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2005
Spartan Band written by Thomas Reid and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Annotation A comprehensive study of the East Texas unit that served as a part of Walker's Texas division in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Brush Men And Vigilantes
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Author : David Pickering
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2000
Brush Men And Vigilantes written by David Pickering and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatized, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger across the South. In scattered pockets from the Carolinas to the frontier in Texas, some men clung to a belief in the Union or an unwillingness to preserve the slaveholding Confederacy, and they died at the hands of their own neighbors. Brush Men and Vigilantes tells the story of how dissent, fear, and economics developed into mob violence in a corner of Texas--the Sulphur Forks river valley northeast of Dallas. Authors David Pickering and Judy Falls have combed through court records, newspapers, letters, and other primary sources and collected extended-family lore to relate the details of how vigilantes captured and killed more than a dozen men. The authors' story begins before the Civil War, as they describe the particular social and economic conditions that gave rise to tension and violence during the war. Unlike most other parts of Texas, the Sulphur Forks river valley had a significant population of Upper Southerners, some of whom spoke out against secession, objected to enlisting in the Confederate army, or associated with "Union men." For some of them, safety meant disappearing into the tangled brush thickets of the region. Routed from the thicket or gone to ground there, dissenters faced death. Betrayed by links to a well-known Union guerrilla from the Sulphur Forks area, more men of the area were captured, tried in mock courts, and hanged. Other men met their death by sniper fire or private execution, as in the case of brush man Frank Chamblee, who for years eluded his enemies by clever tricks but was finally gunned down after the war, reportedly by one of the area's most prominent men. Anyone with an interest in the new history of the Civil War or Texas should find much to digest in this compelling book, whose authors Richard B. McCaslin congratulates for taking their place "in the ranks of Texas' literary reconstructionists."