Fallen Guidon The Forgotten Saga Of General Jo Shelby S Confederate Command

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Confederate Generals In The Trans Mississippi Vol 1

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Author : Lawrence L. Hewitt
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2013-04-30

Confederate Generals In The Trans Mississippi Vol 1 written by Lawrence L. Hewitt and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with History categories.

Until relatively recently, conventional wisdom held that the Trans-Mississippi Theater was a backwater of the American Civil War. Scholarship in recent decades has corrected this oversight, and a growing number of historians agree that the events west of the Mississippi River proved integral to the outcome of the war. Nevertheless, generals in the Trans-Mississippi have received little attention compared to their eastern counterparts, and many remain mere footnotes to Civil War history. This welcome volume features cutting-edge analyses of eight Southern generals in this most neglected theater—Thomas Hindman, Theophilus Holmes, Edmund Kirby Smith, Mosby Monroe Parsons, John Marmaduke, Thomas James Churchill, Thomas Green, and Joseph Orville Shelby—providing an enlightening new perspective on the Confederate high command. Although the Trans-Mississippi has long been considered a dumping ground for failed generals from other regions, the essays presented here demolish that myth, showing instead that, with a few notable exceptions, Confederate commanders west of the Mississippi were homegrown, not imported, and compared well with their more celebrated peers elsewhere. With its virtually nonexistent infrastructure, wildly unpredictable weather, and few opportunities for scavenging, the Trans-Mississippi proved a challenge for commanders on both sides of the conflict. As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, only the most creative minds could operate successfully in such an unforgiving environment. While some of these generals have been the subjects of larger studies, others, including Generals Holmes, Parsons, and Churchill, receive their first serious scholarly attention in these pages. Clearly demonstrating the independence of the Trans-Mississippi and the nuances of the military struggle there, while placing both the generals and the theater in the wider scope of the war, these eight essays offer valuable new insight into Confederate military leadership and the ever-vexing questions of how and why the South lost this most defining of American conflicts.

Illusions Of Empire

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Author : William S. Kiser
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2021-12-07

Illusions Of Empire written by William S. Kiser and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with History categories.

Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Southwest in the context of diplomacy, politics, economics, and military operations during the Civil War era. William S. Kiser examines a fascinating series of events in which a disparate group of historical actors vied for power and control along the U.S.-Mexico border: from Union and Confederate generals and presidents, to Indigenous groups, diplomatic officials, bandits, and revolutionaries, to a Mexican president, a Mexican monarch, and a French king. Their unconventional approaches to foreign relations demonstrate the complex ways that individuals influence the course of global affairs and reveal that borderlands simultaneously enable and stifle the growth of empires. This is the first study to treat antebellum U.S. foreign policy, Civil War campaigning, the French Intervention in Mexico, Southwestern Indian Wars, South Texas Bandit Wars, and U.S. Reconstruction in a single volume, balancing U.S. and Mexican source materials to tell an important story of borderlands conflict with ramifications that are still felt in the region today.

Fallen Guidon

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Author : Edwin Adams Davis
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1995

Fallen Guidon written by Edwin Adams Davis 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 1995 with History categories.

Although Robert E. Lee, surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April, 1865, some Confederates refused to abandon their cause. Fallen Guidon, originally published in 1962 by Jack Rittenhouse's Stagecoach Press, described the adventures of a Confederate brigade that, rather than surrender, decided to transplant its vision of Southern Empire in the troubled soils of Mexico. General Jo Shelby had led the Missouri Cavalry Division through numerous battles in the Trans-Mississippi theater. "We will stand together, we will keep our organization, our arms, our discipline, our hatred of oppression." He planned to march his brigade to Mexico and fight alongside the guerrillas against Emperor Maximilian's French army of occupation. They would come to Mexico's aid and, at the same time, save their honor and perhaps gain riches in a new land. Shelby and his men marched through Texas, burying their Confederated battle flag in the murky waters of the Rio Grande. But the men did not want to fight Maximilian's French soldiers. Identifying themselves as "imperialists," they instead fought the opposition Juaristas, spilling blood from Piedras Negras to Mexico City. This popularly written history, based on archival sources and the reminiscences of Shelby's adjunct, brings vividly to life a little-remembered episode of the Civil War period and of American incursions in Mexico -- Back cover.

General Jo Shelby S March

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Author : Anthony Arthur
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-08-17

General Jo Shelby S March written by Anthony Arthur and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-17 with History categories.

Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confederate general forged a defiant new life out of crushing defeat, and how he finally achieved forgiveness and respect in his own reunited land. General Jo Shelby had been a daring and ruthless cavalry commander, renowned and notorious for his slashing forays behind Union lines. After Appomattox, Shelby, declaring that he would never surrender, headed for Mexico. With three hundred men, some from his fighting “Iron Brigade” regiment, others adventurers, fortune hunters, and deserters, the man Arthur refers to as “the last holdout of the Confederacy” made the treacherous twelve-hundred-mile trip. In thrilling and vivid detail, General Jo Shelby’s March describes the dusty and dangerous trek through a lawless Texas swarming with desperadoes, into a Mexico teeming with Juárez’s rebels and marauding Apaches. After near fratricide among his fraying band of brothers, Shelby arrived to present a quixotic proposal to Emperor Maximilian: He and his fellow Americans would take over the Mexican army and, after being reinforced by forty thousand more Confederate soldiers, the government itself. Though a dramatic, doomed, and brave endeavor, Shelby’s actions changed both himself and American history forever. Anthony Arthur then reveals the astonishing end of Shelby’s career: his return to America and his renouncing of slavery, his nomination by President Grover Cleveland to become U.S. marshal for western Missouri, his eventual fame as a model of nineteenth-century progressivism. General Jo Shelby’s March is a riveting book about a uniquely American man, both brave and brutal, a hero and a hothead, whose life’s startling last chapter is a microcosm of the aftermath of our most divisive war.

Santiago Vidaurri And The Southern Confederacy

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Author : Ronnie C. Tyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

Santiago Vidaurri And The Southern Confederacy written by Ronnie C. Tyler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with History categories.

Civil War History

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963

Civil War History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Electronic journals categories.

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Southwest, New categories.

General Jo Shelby Undefeated Rebel

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Author : Daniel O'Flaherty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954

General Jo Shelby Undefeated Rebel written by Daniel O'Flaherty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

This vivid work, first published by UNC Press in 1954, reveals General Joseph Orville Shelby as one of the best Confederate cavalry leaders--and certainly the most colorful. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, but drawn by the promise of the growing West, Shelby became one of the richest men in Missouri. Siding with the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized his Iron Brigade of cavalry--whose ranks included Frank and Jesse James--taught his men a slashing frontier style of fighting, and led them on incredible raids against Federal forces in Missouri. When the Confederacy fell, Shelby refused to surrender and instead took his command to Mexico, where they fought in support of the emperor Maximilian. Upon his return to Missouri, Shelby became an immensely popular figure in the state, eventually attaining the status of folk hero, a living symbol of the Civil War in the West. "O'Flaherty has written a first-rate book . . . combining careful scholarship with the ability to tell a story in an engaging manner.--Saturday Review "An interesting and readable life story of a long neglected Confederate general.--Military Affairs

The Journal Of Southern History

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Author : Wendell Holmes Stephenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963

The Journal Of Southern History written by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Electronic journals categories.

Includes section "Book reviews."

Civil War Books

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Author : Tom Broadfoot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983

Civil War Books written by Tom Broadfoot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Books categories.