Download or read book Chambers County Texas in the War Between the States written by Kevin Ladd and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in memory of Lurenda Smith Hankamer by Patricia L. Cleere.
Download or read book Double Bayou Chambers County Texas Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers a Report of the Examination of Double Bayou Chambers County Texas December 26 1890 Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of a Prisoner of War 1863 1864 written by Decimus et Ultimus Barziza and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal is the exciting personal narrative of a Texan who was a prisoner of the Union Army during the Civil War, escaped to Canada, and finally made his way back into the Confederacy through the blockade. It was written while the war was still in progress. The journal was issued anonymously in Houston early in 1865. Its author, Decimus et Ultimus Barziza, was a colorful, competent, truly remarkable Texan—well educated, well traveled, and sophisticated as an observer. Barziza came to Texas from Virginia in 1857. He left a growing law practice at Owensville to enter Confederate service as first lieutenant of the “Robertson Five-Shooters,” an infantry company which was one of the original units of the Fourth Texas Infantry, Hood’s Brigade. After fighting in many battles, he was wounded at Gettysburg and left lying on the field. The Yankees picked him up and imprisoned him at Johnson’s Island. A year later, as Barziza was being shipped to another prison, he escaped by diving through a window of the moving train at midnight. Making his way across Pennsylvania to New York, he took a train for Canada. There he became one of the first beneficiaries of an underground system which eventually returned him to North Carolina. Too ill from his wounds and the hardships of his escape to return to active duty, he spent the next few months writing his memoirs. They cover the period from the drive for Gettysburg to Barziza’s return to the Confederacy. Before the original publication of this book, only two copies of The Adventures of a Prisoner of War were known to exist. R. Henderson Shuffler, then director of the Texana program of the University of Texas, felt that it was intriguing and important enough to merit editing for republication. The journal has the further attraction of describing the then little-known machinery which was set up in Canada to help Rebel soldiers who had escaped Northern prisons make their way back to the Confederacy by way of Nova Scotia and Bermuda. Shuffler supplements the narrative with limited yet helpful documentation, providing introductory sections explaining Barziza’s background and his career as a Texas legislator and lawyer, as well as carrying the war story up to the sequence where Barziza’s account begins.
Download or read book A History of Chambers County Texas written by Jewel Horace Harry and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A history of Chambers County Texas written by Jewel Horace Harry and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Double Bayou Chambers County Texas Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers a Report of the Examination of Double Bayou Chambers County Texas written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers Report of the Examination of Double Bayou Chambers County Texas written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waters of Discord written by Rodman L. Underwood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the American Civil War the Federal government imposed a blockade of the southern coast of the Confederate States of America, including the dark corner of the Confederacy--Texas. Much of the fighting in Texas during the Civil War took place in the state's coastal counties and the adjoining Gulf of Mexico waters, and nearly all of these engagements were involved in one way or another with the Union blockade of the Texas coast. This book examines all major blockade-related land and sea engagements in and near Texas, and also includes many minor ones. It begins with a discussion of the blockade's creation and then concentrates on the successful Confederate efforts to evade the blockade by shipping cotton out of Mexico and, in return, receiving materiel and civilian goods through that neutral nation. The author also covers political intrigue and the spy activity with the French who had invaded Mexico. The book concludes with an analysis of the effectiveness of the Union blockade of Texas.
Download or read book The Shattering of Texas Unionism written by Dale Baum and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rare departure from the narrow periodization that marks past studies of Texas politics during the Civil War era, this sweeping work tracks the leadership and electoral basis of politics in the Lone Star State from secession all the way through Reconstruction. Employing a combination of traditional historical sources and cutting-edge quantitative analyses of county voting returns, Dale Baum painstakingly explores the double collapse of Texas unionism—first as a bulwark against secession in the winter of 1860–1861 and then in the late 1860s as a foundation upon which to build a truly biracial society. By carefully tracing the shifting alliances of voters from one election to the next, Baum charts the dramatic assemblage and subsequent breakup of Sam Houston’s coalition on the eve of the war, evaluates the social and economic bases of voting in the secession referendum, and appraises the extent to which intimidation of anti-secessionists shaped the state’s decision to leave the Union. He also examines the ensuing voting behavior of Confederate Texans and shows precisely how antebellum alignments and issues carried over into the war years. Finally, he describes the impact on the state’s electoral politics brought about by the policies of President Andrew Johnson and by broad programs of revolutionary change under Congressional Reconstruction. Baum presents the most sophisticated examination yet of white voter disfranchisement and apathy under Congressional Reconstruction and of the social and political origins of the state’s Radical Republican “scalawag” constituency. He also provides a rigorous statistical investigation of one of the most controversial elections ever held in Texas—the 1869 governor’s race, lost by conservative Republican Andrew Jackson Hamilton to Radical Edmund J. Davis, which nonetheless effectively ended Congressional Reconstruction. Through his innovative exploration of unionist sentiment in Texas, Baum illuminates the most turbulent political period in the history of the state, interpreting both the weight of continuity and the force of change that swept over it before, during, and immediately after the American Civil War. Students of the South, the Civil War, and African American history, as well as sociologists and political scientists interested in election fraud, political violence, and racial strife, will benefit from this significant volume.
Download or read book Fannin County Texas in the Civil War written by Carolyn Reeves Ericson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oh for a Touch of the Vanished Hand written by Dana M. Mangham and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon Mangham was born in about 1755 in North Carolina. His parents were William Mangham, Sr. and Mary Persons. He married Sarah Ann Bennett. They had seven children and lived near Gilkey's Creek, South Carolina. In about 1790 they moved to Wilkes County, Georgia. Thirty-seven of their Mangham descendants fought in the Confederate Army. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas.
Download or read book Montgomery County Texas CSA written by Frank M. Johnson and published by Frank M. Johnson. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive history of Montgomery County's involvement in the War between the States and the men from that county who served in the military of the Confederate States of America
Download or read book The Fate of Texas written by Charles D. Grear and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its examination of a state too often neglected by Civil War historians, The Fate of Texas presents Texas as a decidedly Southern, yet in many ways unusual, state seriously committed to and deeply affected by the Confederate war effort in a multitude of ways. When the state joined the Confederacy and fought in the war, its fate was uncertain. The war touched every portion of the population and all aspects of life in Texas. Never before has a group of historians examined the impact of the war on so many facets of the state.
Download or read book Camp County Texas in the Civil War written by Joe E. Ericson and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War Between the States written by Francis R. Horne and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lamar County Texas in the Civil War written by Carolyn R. Ericson and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas written by John Henry Brown and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1988 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.
