Download or read book Frontier defense in Texas 1861 1865 written by David Paul Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frontier Defense in the Civil War written by David Paul Smith and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texans faced two foes as the Civil War began in 1861: the Union armed forces and the Plains Indians. In this breakthrough volume, David Paul Smith demonstrates that through the efforts of the Home Guard and the Texas Rangers, the Texas frontier held its own during the eventful war years, in spite of a number of factors that could easily have overwhelmed it.
Download or read book Texas Frontier Defense 1865 1881 written by Carl Coke Rister and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seventh Star of the Confederacy written by Kenneth Wayne Howell and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Government Explorations and Frontier Defense in Texas New Mexico and California 1848 1861 written by Averam Burton Bender and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas in the War 1861 1865 written by Marcus Joseph Wright and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete history of Texas in the Civil War to appear since 1900.
Download or read book Texas in the War for Southern Independence 1861 1865 written by Robert Pattison Felgar and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Texas was in a unique position in the Confederacy. Unlike her sister states, she was contiguous to foreign territory. Much of her vast area was devoid of human habitation while most of the remainder was sparcely settled. Three-fourths of her people were recent immigrants, and she had a larger foreign element than any other confederate state. She was partly southern and partly western. The interests of the large planters along the lower courses of the rivers were quite like those of the planters in other states of the South. The settlers who resided along the western frontier were imbued with the ideas which generally prevailed in frontier communities; but, being mainly of southern stock, and believing in state rights, they joined their fellow Texans of the more populous areas in upholding a principle and in making common cause against aggression. On the other hand, individualism, so prevalent in frontier peoples, frequently marred the best efforts of the military authorities. Texas was practically free from invasion, hence her economic life could continue uninterrupted throughout the war, being affected mainly by a scarcity of workers because of the absence of men in the army. She was fortunate, too, in being able to have access to foreign markets through the port of Matamoras, Mexico. In the mobilization of the military strength of Texas the officials were inclined, to put undue stress on local defense to the injury of the cause of the entire confederacy. The protection of his home and neighborhood was frequently of greater concern to the frontiersman than service in the confederacy in another part of the country. Disloyalty and desertion weakened the military strength perceptibly. The efficiency of the military forces was lowered because so many Texans preferred service in the cavalry when most of them were needed for the infantry; and their effectiveness was impaired because at times there were not enough arms of any kind to supply those enrolled for service. Men suffered from the lack of proper shelter while in camp, and at times because of poor shoes and clothing. Food was often limited and of poor quality. Hospitals were never adequately supplied with medicines, bandages, and other necessary appliances. On the whole, however, the soldiers in Texas and Texans in other parts of the Trans-Mississippi Department fared better than did the men in the armies east of the river. Primarily an agricultural region, Texans made the most of the situation by spinning and weaving in the homes and by establishing small factories. The Military Board rendered a valuable service in securing from abroad cotton and wool cards which were so necessary for preparing cotton and wool for spinning. Because of the opportunity denied other confederate states of marketing cotton, Texas cotton growers opposed a restriction of the acreage despite the exhortations of editors to raise more foodstuffs and less cotton. A rather bitter feeling prevailed, not without justification, that the poor man was bearing more than his share of the burden of the war while the large planters and speculators were making profits at his expense, scarcity of specie and depreciation of paper money made trade conditions unstable. Both the Texas and Confederate governments failed to set up the machinery which would finance the war. While the unionist element was rather strong throughout the war, it was never powerful enough to venture into politics. Although there were some "slackers" in all parts of the state, the great majority of the people were willing to make sacrifices for the cause, and the men cheerfully offered themselves on the field of battle. But when the news reached them of the surrender of the two largest confederate armies, commanded by such esteemed leaders as Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, no oratory or other arguments or devices could prevail upon them to continue the fight. The small forces fell to pieces and the men straggled homeward to their families where they were soon confronted with the reconstruction regime"--Leaves 514-517
Download or read book Riding for the Lone Star written by Nathan A. Jennings and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of Texas was forged in the crucible of frontier warfare between 1822 and 1865, when Anglo-Americans adapted to mounted combat north of the Rio Grande. This cavalry-centric arena, which had long been the domain of Plains Indians and the Spanish Empire, compelled an adaptive martial tradition that shaped early Lone Star society. Beginning with initial tactical innovation in Spanish Tejas and culminating with massive mobilization for the Civil War, Texas society developed a distinctive way of war defined by armed horsemanship, volunteer militancy, and short-term mobilization as it grappled with both tribal and international opponents. Drawing upon military reports, participants' memoirs, and government documents, cavalry officer Nathan A. Jennings analyzes the evolution of Texan militarism from tribal clashes of colonial Tejas, territorial wars of the Texas Republic, the Mexican-American War, border conflicts of antebellum Texas, and the cataclysmic Civil War. In each conflict Texan volunteers answered the call to arms with marked enthusiasm for mounted combat. Riding for the Lone Star explores this societal passion--with emphasis on the historic rise of the Texas Rangers--through unflinching examination of territorial competition with Comanches, Mexicans, and Unionists. Even as statesmen Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston emerged as influential strategic leaders, captains like Edward Burleson, John Coffee Hays, and John Salmon Ford attained fame for tactical success.
Download or read book War and Reconstruction Times in Texas written by Augusta M. Loughery and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Settlers War written by Gregory Michno and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas’s hills and prairies that continued for decades. During the 1860s, however, the bloodiest decade in the western Indian wars, there were no large-scale battles in Texas between the army and the Indians. Instead, the targets of the Comanches, the Kiowas, and the Apaches were generally the homesteaders out on the Texas frontier, that is, precisely those who should have been on the sidelines. Ironically, it was these noncombatants who bore the brunt of the warfare, suffering far greater losses than the soldiers supposedly there to protect them. It is this story that The Settlers’ War tells for the first time.
Download or read book Confederate Defense of Texas 1861 1865 written by Orville Ellis Avery and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federal Military Defense of the Northwest Texas Frontier 1846 1861 written by Donald D. Mawson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Civil War in the Trans Mississippi Theater 1861 1865 written by Jeffery S. Prushankin and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Civil War had a "forgotten theater," it was the Trans-Mississippi West. Starting in 1861 with the Lincoln administration's desire to maintain control of the far west, Jeffery Prushankin covers battles in New Mexico, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, including Pea Ridge in March 1862 and Pleasant Hill in April 1864. The Red River Expedition and Price's Raid are also described. The narrative places these campaigns and battles in their strategic context to show how they contributed to the outcome of the war.
Download or read book Camp Verde Texas Frontier Defense written by Joseph Neal Luther and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Exodus of Federal Forces from Texas 1861 written by J. J. Bowden and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas in the Confederacy written by Clayton E. Jewett and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historians examining the Confederacy have often assumed the existence of a monolithic South unified behind the politics and culture of slavery. In addition, they have argued for the emergence of a strong central state government in the Confederacy. In Texas in the Confederacy, Clayton E. Jewett challenges these assumptions by examining Texas politics with an emphasis on the virtually neglected topic of the Texas legislature. In doing so, Jewett shows that an examination of state legislative activity during this period is essential to understanding Texas's relationship with the Indian tribes, the states in Trans-Mississippi Department, and the Confederate government."--Jacket
Download or read book The American Civil War in Texas written by Johanna Burke and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses Texas history during the Civil War (1861-1865) when Texas voted to join the Confederacy.
