Thirteen Months In Dixie Or The Adventures Of A Federal Prisoner In Texas
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Thirteen Months In Dixie Or The Adventures Of A Federal Prisoner In Texas
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Author : W. F. Oscar Federhen
language : en
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Release Date : 2022-08-15
Thirteen Months In Dixie Or The Adventures Of A Federal Prisoner In Texas written by W. F. Oscar Federhen and has been published by Savas Beatie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Thirteen Months in Dixie tells a rollicking tale of adventure, captivity, hardship, and heroism during the last year of the Civil War—in the protagonist’s own words. After being hidden away for decades as a family heirloom, the incredible manuscript is finally available, annotated and illustrated, for the first time. Oscar Federhen was a new recruit to the 13th Independent Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery, when he shipped out to Louisiana in the spring of 1864 to participate in the Red River Campaign. Not long after his arrival at the front, a combination of ill-luck and bad timing led to his capture. Federhen was marched overland to Tyler, Texas, where he was held as a prisoner of war in Camp Ford, the largest POW camp west of the Mississippi River. Thirteen Months in Dixie recounts Federhen’s always thrilling and occasionally horrifying ordeals as a starving prisoner. The captured artillerist tried his hand at escaping several times and faced sadistic guards and vicious hounds before finally succeeding. But his ordeal was just beginning. The young soldier faced a series of challenges as he made his way cross-country through northeast Texas to reach Union lines. Federhen had to dodge regular Confederates, brigands, and even Comanches in his effort to get home. He rode for a time with Rebel irregular cavalry, during which he witnessed robberies and even cold-blooded murder. When he was recaptured and thought to be a potential deserter, he escaped yet again and continued his bid for freedom. Federhen wrote his recollections in lively engaging style not long after the war, but they sat unpublished until Jeaninne Surette Honstein and Steven Knowlton carefully transcribed and annotated his incredible manuscript. Numerous illustrations grace the pages, including two from Federhen’s own pen. Thirteen Months in Dixie is not only a gripping true story that would have otherwise been lost to history, but a valuable primary source about the lives of Civil War prisoners and everyday Texans during the conflict.
Outwitting Forrest
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Author : Edwin C. Bearss
language : en
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Release Date : 2023-08-31
Outwitting Forrest written by Edwin C. Bearss and has been published by Savas Beatie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-31 with History categories.
Few students of the Civil War know that legendary historian Edwin C. Bearss produced a classic study on the little-known but significant Tupelo Campaign. The fighting in Mississippi was overshadowed by Nathan Bedford Forrest’s more spectacular victory at Brice’s Crossroads a month earlier. Bearss performed the research and writing for the Department of the Interior in 1969, and only a handful of softcover copies were circulated. It is published here for the first time, with the assistance of award-winning author David A. Powell, as Outwitting Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22–July 23, 1864. The engagement came about when Maj. Gen. A. J. Smith marched a Federal expeditionary force (his XVI Army Corps) into northern Mississippi in early July 1864. The thrust forced a response, the largest of which was delivered by the combined Confederate cavalry of Stephen D. Lee (who was in general command) and Forrest. The tactical result was a Union defensive success. The larger Confederate strategic play, however—one that might have impacted the course of the war in the Western Theater—would have been to unleash Forrest on a raid into Middle Tennessee to destroy the single line of railroad track feeding and supplying the Union armies of William T. Sherman in his ongoing operations around Atlanta. Instead, his troopers were contained within the Magnolia State, where his combat effectiveness was severely curtailed. Editor Powell has left Bearss’s prose and notes intact, while adding additional sources and commentary of his own. The result is an exceptional study that has finally been made available to the general reading public as part of the Savas Beatie Battles & Leaders Series.
The Confederate Military Forces In The Trans Mississippi West 1861 1865
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Author : William Royston Geise
language : en
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Release Date : 2022-08-30
The Confederate Military Forces In The Trans Mississippi West 1861 1865 written by William Royston Geise and has been published by Savas Beatie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-30 with History categories.
William Royston Geise was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1970s when he researched and wrote The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861- 1865: A Study in Command in 1974. Although it remained unpublished, it was not wholly unknown. Deep-diving researchers were aware of Dr. Geise’s work and lamented the fact that it was not widely available to the general public. In many respects, studies of the Trans-Mississippi Theater are only now catching up with Geise. This intriguing book traces the evolution of Confederate command and how it affected the shifting strategic situation and general course of the war. Dr. Geise accomplishes his task by coming at the question in a unique fashion. Military field operations are discussed as needed, but his emphasis is on the functioning of headquarters and staff—the central nervous system of any military command. This was especially so for the Trans-Mississippi. After July 1863, the only viable Confederate agency west of the great river was the headquarters at Shreveport. That hub of activity became the sole location to which all isolated players, civilians and military alike, could look for immediate overall leadership and a sense of Confederate solidarity. By filling these needs, the Trans-Mississippi Department assumed a unique and vital role among Confederate military departments and provided a focus for continued Confederate resistance west of the Mississippi River. The author’s work mining primary archival sources and published firsthand accounts, coupled with a smooth and clear writing style, helps explain why this remote department (referred to as “Kirby Smithdom” after Gen. Kirby Smith) failed to function efficiently, and how and why the war unfolded there as it did. Trans-Mississippi Theater historian and Ph.D. candidate Michael J. Forsyth (Col., U.S. Army, Ret.) has resurrected Dr. Geise’s smoothly written and deeply researched manuscript from its undeserved obscurity. This edition, with its original annotations and Forsyth’s updated citations and observations, is bolstered with original maps, photographs, and images. Students of the war in general, and the Trans-Mississippi Theater in particular, will delight in its long overdue publication.
The Adventures Of A Prisoner Of War 1863 1864
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Author : Decimus et Ultimus Barziza
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-11-07
The Adventures Of A Prisoner Of War 1863 1864 written by Decimus et Ultimus Barziza and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-07 with History categories.
Original t. p. reads: The adventures of a prisoner of war, and life and scenes in Federal prisons: Johnson's Island, Fort Delaware, and Point Lookout / by an escaped prisoner of Hood's Texas Brigade. Houston, Texas: Richardson & Owen's Printing Establishment, 1865.
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War
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Author : G. W. Cable
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-02-28
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War written by G. W. Cable and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with History categories.
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Dictionary Catalog Of The Research Libraries Of The New York Public Library 1911 1971
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Dictionary Catalog Of The Research Libraries Of The New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Library catalogs categories.
Andersonville Illustrated
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Author : John McElroy
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-11-13
Andersonville Illustrated written by John McElroy and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-13 with History categories.
"Andersonville" is one of the best accounts about the Civil War. McElroy, the author, vividly tells his story about the time he spent as a prisoner of Andersonville and a few other Confederate prisons he was kept at. The book is full of interesting stories and amazing facts about the Confederate prison system and the way prisoners were treated in the South!
Life In Dixie During The War
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Author : Mary Ann Harris Gay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Life In Dixie During The War written by Mary Ann Harris Gay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with United States categories.
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1876 1949
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Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1876 1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with United States categories.
Travels In The Confederate States
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Travels In The Confederate States written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Southern States categories.