Download or read book Portraits of Louisiana s Mexican War Veterans and of the War for Texas Independence written by Randy Decuir and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana supplied 10,000 troops to the fight in the War with Mexico, a war which was fueled by the aggressive expansion westward of American settlers after the Louisiana Purchase. After it was all over, Mexico ceded a vast landmass to the United States stretching from Texas to California. With photography being in its infant stages, few images of soldiers were taken, much less still exist today of the war time period. Most of the portraits of Louisiana soldiers in this work were taken in later years. Photos include: ALLEN, Henry Watkins, Governor of Louisiana ARMSTRONG, Bezaleel Wells, 2nd Lieutenant New Orleans BARTON, Edward Hall, M. D. St Francisville BEAUREGARD, P. G. T. New Orleans BENEVIDES, Placido Opelousas BENSADON, Joseph, M.D. BLANCHARD Albert Gallatin New Orleans, General BOWIE, Jim Cental Louisiana, Died at the Alamo BRAGG, Braxton Thibodeaux BRYAN, King, native of Louisiana CLARK, Edward, native of New Orleans, Gov. Of Texas COLLIER, Thomas Whitfield Native of St. Francisville CORNES, James Marshall, native of Wales, Resident Caddo COUVILLON, Pierre, Avoyelles Parish DAVIS, Jefferson Died in New Orleans DAVIS, Sarah Taylor Died in St. Francisville DeBLIEUX, Eugene Valery, Sr St. Landry Parish DeRUSSY, Lewis G., Natchitoches Parish DUNLAP, Hugh White, Ouchita Parish Planter DURST, John Marie grew up in Natchitoches FORNO, Henry GLADDEN, Adley Hogan GRAHAM, George Mason, father of LSU GRAYSON, John B. New Orleans, Confederate General HATCH Rapides Parish HAYS, Harry Thompson HEBERT, Paul Octave, Governor of Louisiana HYAMS, Samuel, Natchitoches Parish JONES, Anson New Orleans, Gov. of Texas LANGFORD, Asa, Sabine Parish, Texas Land Grant awarded LUBBOCK, Thomas Saltus, New Orleans Alamo Siege MaCLAY, Robert PlunketI Pointe Coupee Parish MARKS, Leon Dawson, Newspaperman of Caddo MAURY, Dabney Herndon MORGAN, Phillip Hicky, native of Baton Rouge, Judge N.O. MOWER, Joseph Anthony New Orleans, Engineers MUMFORD, William Bruce, New Orleans, wounded PARISH, Robert T., Rev., Rapides-Union Parish PICKETT, George Edward, Louisiana wife killed in raid PREWITT, Elisha, native of Rapides Parish ROBERTSON Edward White Sgt, 2nd Reg. Vol, Baton Rouge SHERMAN, William T. Rapides Parish, LSU SLIDELL, Minister plenipotentiary to Mexico STAFFORD, Leroy Augustus, Rapides STERNE, Adolphus, New Orleans merchant TAYLOE, Henry A. TAYLOR, Richard, Son of President Zachary Taylor TAYLOR, Zachary War hero propelled to presidency TRAYLOR, Joshua WALTON, James Burdge Washington Artillery WHEAT, Chatham Roberdeau APPENDIX 1836 List of Louisiana men at the Alamo 1897 list of Louisiana Veterans 19th century history of Louisiana in the War with Mexico

Download or read book The Handbook of Texas written by Walter Prescott Webb and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.

Download or read book Jos Mar a de Jes s Carvajal written by Joseph E. Chance and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: José María de Jesús Carvajalis both a biography of a Mexican postrevolutionary and a study of the development of a new border between Mexico and the United States during the crucial decades of the early to mid–nineteenth century. The work examines the challenges faced by Carvajal, a bilingual, bicultural character in confusing times, against the historical backdrop of the history of colonial Texas and northern Mexico. Chance has chosen to focus on a political-military figure whose career stretches from the Texas Revolution to the French Intervention. Carvajal played a key role in the violent struggle between the liberal and conservative political factions that vied for control of the Republic of Mexico from 1830 to 1874. He was the leader of a mercenary army that invaded Mexico from the United States in 1851 in an unsuccessful attempt for the creation of the so-called independent Republic of the Sierra Madre. In addition, he played significant roles in the struggle for Texas Independence and formation of the ill-fated Republic of the Rio Grande; and he opposed the American occupation of northern Mexico during the Mexican-American War, the War of Reform that solidified liberal control of Mexico under the leadership of Benito Juarez, and the French Intervention into Mexico. Carvajal’s life and exploits have been largely overlooked by contemporary historians. This work sheds new light on several important chapters in the history of Texas and northern Mexico.

Download or read book Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served During the Mexican War written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.

Download or read book A Short Offhand Killing Affair written by Paul Foos and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican-American War (1846-48) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny, seeking to conquer an unfamiliar nation and people. Through an examination of rank-and-file soldiers, Paul Foos sheds new light on the war and its effect on attitudes toward other races and nationalities that stood in the way of American expansionism. Drawing on wartime diaries and letters not previously examined by scholars, Foos shows that the experience of soldiers in the war differed radically from the positive, patriotic image trumpeted by political and military leaders seeking recruits for a volunteer army. Promised access to land, economic opportunity, and political equality, the enlistees instead found themselves subjected to unusually harsh discipline and harrowing battle conditions. As a result, some soldiers adapted the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny to their own purposes, taking for themselves what had been promised, often by looting the Mexican countryside or committing racial and sexual atrocities. Others deserted the army to fight for the enemy or seek employment in the West. These acts, Foos argues, along with the government's tacit acceptance of them, translated into a more violent, damaging variety of Manifest Destiny.

Download or read book Texas Lithographs written by Ron Tyler and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westward expansion in the United States was deeply intertwined with the technological revolutions of the nineteenth century, from telegraphy to railroads. Among the most important of these, if often forgotten, was the lithograph. Before photography became a dominant medium, lithography—and later, chromolithography—enabled inexpensive reproduction of color illustrations, transforming journalism and marketing and nurturing, for the first time, a global visual culture. One of the great subjects of the lithography boom was an emerging Euro-American colony in the Americas: Texas. The most complete collection of its kind—and quite possibly the most complete visual record of nineteenth-century Texas, period—Texas Lithographs is a gateway to the history of the Lone Star State in its most formative period. Ron Tyler assembles works from 1818 to 1900, many created by outsiders and newcomers promoting investment and settlement in Texas. Whether they depict the early French colony of Champ d’Asile, the Republic of Texas, and the war with Mexico, or urban growth, frontier exploration, and the key figures of a nascent Euro-American empire, the images collected here reflect an Eden of opportunity—a fairy-tale dream that remains foundational to Texans’ sense of self and to the world’s sense of Texas.

Download or read book Love and War written by Augustus Valerius Ball and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ball's circumstances and experiences allowed him to glimpse the war through two sets of eyes, that of a loving husband, and of an increasingly disillusioned physician. The inclusion of Ball's medicinal recipe book is the first of its kind to appear in print completely annotated. Readers will find themselves educated about the medical and herbal lore of that era.

Download or read book The U S War with Mexico written by Ernesto Chavez and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. war with Mexico was a pivotal event in American history, it set crucial wartime precedents and served as a precursor for the impending Civil War. With a powerful introduction and rich collection of documents, Ernesto Ch‡vez makes a convincing case that as an expansionist war, the U.S.-Mexico conflict set a new standard for the acquisition of foreign territory through war. Equally important, the war racialized the enemy, and in so doing accentuated the nature of whiteness and white male citizenship in the U.S., especially as it related to conquered Mexicans, Indians, slaves, and even women. The war, along with ongoing westward expansion, heightened public debates in the North and South about slavery and its place in newly-acquired territories. In addition, Ch‡vez shows how the political, economic and social development of each nation played a critical role in the path to war and its ultimate outcome. Both official and popular documents offer the events leading up to the war, the politics surrounding it, popular sentiment in both countries about it, and the war’s long-term impact on the future development and direction of these two nations. Headnotes, a chronology, maps and a selected bibliography enrich student understanding of this important historical moment.

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Download or read book A Wicked War written by Amy S. Greenberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the often forgotten U.S.-Mexican War paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world—from Indian fights and Manifest Destiny, to secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. “If one can read only a single book about the Mexican-American War, this is the one to read.” —The New York Review of Books Often overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history.

Download or read book Joe the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend written by Ron J. Jackson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the fifty or so Texan survivors of the siege of the Alamo was Joe, the personal slave of Lt. Col. William Barret Travis. First interrogated by Santa Anna, Joe was allowed to depart (along with Susana Dickinson) and eventually made his way to the seat of the revolutionary government at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Joe was then returned to the Travis estate in Columbia, Texas, near the coast. He escaped in 1837 and was never captured. Ron J. Jackson and Lee White have meticulously researched plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, personal letters, and court documents to fill in the gaps of Joe's story. "Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend" provides not only a recovered biography of an individual lost to history, but also offers a fresh vantage point from which to view the events of the Texas Revolution"--

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Download or read book Fire in the Cane Field written by Donald Shaw Frazier and published by State House Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the spasms of secession in the Pelican State, Donald Frazier weaves a stirring tale of bravado, reaction and war as he describes the consequences of disunion for the hapless citizens of Louisiana and Texas.

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