Download or read book Ship Island and other stories written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cat Island written by John Cuevas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just off the coast of the Gulf Islands National Seashore lies Cat Island, an isolated, T-shaped sliver of sand with a remarkable past. A coveted hiding place for Jean Lafitte's pirate treasure in the late eighteenth century and illegal booze during Prohibition, Cat Island also witnessed the first shots of the Battle of New Orleans, an encampment for Seminoles during the Trail of Tears and the first lighthouses on the Mississippi coast. As a child, author John Cuevas learned that his family had owned and lived on the island for three generations beginning with his ancestor, Juan de Cuevas, referred to as "The King of Cat Island," who received it by way of a Spanish land grant. In this engaging work, Cuevas chronicles the historic events that occurred on the island's shores and offers a tribute to the legacy of one of the Gulf Coast's pioneer families.
Download or read book Ship Island Mississippi written by Theresa Arnold-Scriber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ship Island was used as a French base of operations for Gulf Coast maneuvers and later, during the War of 1812, by the British as a launching point for the disastrous Battle of New Orleans. But most memorably, Ship Island served as a Federal prison under the command of Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler during the Civil War. This volume traces this fascinating and somewhat sinister history of Ship Island. The main focus of the book is a series of rosters of the men imprisoned. Organized first by the state in which the soldier enlisted and then by the company in which he served, entries are listed alphabetically by last name and include information such as beginning rank; date and place of enlistment; date and place of capture; physical characteristics; and, where possible, the fate and postwar occupation of the prisoner.
Download or read book Historic Resource Study Ship Island Harrison County Mississippi Gulf Islands National Seashore Florida Mississippi written by Edwin C. Bearss and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Channels at Ship Island Pass and from Ship Island Harbor to the Mainland Miss Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with Letter of the Chief of Engineers Report of a Survey for a Channel from Ship Island Harbor to the Rail road Pier at Gulfport and from Ship Island Harbor to Biloxi Miss Also for an Anchorage Basin at Both Places and Channel Through Ship Island Pass written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ship Island in the Civil War written by Zed H. Burns and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ports of Gulfport and Pascagoula Miss written by United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discovering Cat Island written by John Cuevas and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cat Island, just off the Mississippi Gulf Coast shoreline, has been home to some of the most dramatic events and remarkable stories in the nation's history. While some of these stories are fact, others are colorful fables passed down through the ages with such conviction they have become true in the hearts and minds of many. Between fact and fiction is the undeniable reality: Cat Island is one of the most historically significant landmarks on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Featuring over 160 black-and-white photographs by Jason Taylor and a foreword by Mississippi's Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, John Cuevas's Discovering Cat Island guides readers through Cat Island with stories and histories of twenty-nine sites--both real and imagined--of the legendary barrier island. Originally owned by the Cuevas family as part of a Spanish land grant to Juan de Cuevas in 1781, Cat Island boasts a colorful history that includes events related to the notorious pirate Jean Lafitte and the outlaw James Copeland, both of whom were thought to have buried their stolen treasure somewhere on the island; the Battle of New Orleans; and the War of 1812. The island served as one of the staging areas for the Seminole forced to abandon their homes and take part in the Trail of Tears. In the twentieth century, the island was a convenient transfer point for gangsters and local bootleggers shipping booze during Prohibition before becoming a US military training camp site during World War II. In 1988, Cat Island became the location of the first oil drilling ever in the Mississippi Sound and in 2010 was one of the islands devastated by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Download or read book Mississippi Gulf Coast Yesterday and Today 1699 1939 written by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (Miss.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lighthouse Reservation Ship Island Miss Transfer to War Department written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ports of Gulfport and Pascagoula Mississippi written by United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Channels at Ship Island Pass and from Ship Island Harbor to the Mainland Miss Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with Letter of the Chief of Engineers Report of a Survey for a Channel from Ship Island Harbor to the Railroad Pier at Gulfport and from Ship Island Harbor to Biloxi Miss Also for an Anchorage Basin at Both Places and Channel Through Ship Island Pass January 5 1899 Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Native Guard enhanced Audio Edition written by Natasha Trethewey and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this audio-enhanced edition are recordings of the U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey reading Native Guard in its entirety, as well as an interview with the poet from the HMH podcast The Poetic Voice, in which she recounts what it was like to grow up in the South as the daughter of a white father and a black mother and describes other influences that inspired the work. Experience this Pulitzer Prize–winning collection in an engaging new way. Growing up in the Deep South, Natasha Trethewey was never told that in her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, black soldiers had played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Off the coast, on Ship Island, stood a fort that had once been a Union prison housing Confederate captives. Protecting the fort was the second regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards -- one of the Union's first official black units. Trethewey's new book of poems pays homage to the soldiers who served and whose voices have echoed through her own life. The title poem imagines the life of a former slave stationed at the fort, who is charged with writing letters home for the illiterate or invalid POWs and his fellow soldiers. Just as he becomes the guard of Ship Island's memory, so Trethewey recalls her own childhood as the daughter of a black woman and a white man. Her parents' marriage was still illegal in 1966 Mississippi. The racial legacy of the Civil War echoes through elegiac poems that honor her own mother and the forgotten history of her native South. Native Guard is haunted by the intersection of national and personal experience.
Download or read book The Mississippi Gulf Coast written by Timothy T. Isbell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through more than two hundred stunning photographs, The Mississippi Gulf Coast illustrates what visitors and residents alike love about the region—the sunrises and sunsets; the distinctive character of each town along the waterfront; the historic places; the traditional coast cuisine; and the arts, gaming, and watersports. Passing from the western part of the coast to the east, The Mississippi Gulf Coast will refamiliarize some and introduce others to the Coast of Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, Biloxi, D’Iberville, Ocean Springs, Gautier, Pascagoula, and Moss Point. Through words and images, photographer Timothy T. Isbell provides a brief history of the area, from the first settlers to the waves of immigrants who have helped shape the character and culture of the region, and a reflection of the current state of the Gulf Coast. The Mississippi Gulf Coast has spent more than a decade recovering from the ruin left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. During the earliest days following the storm, Isbell was sent out to document the grim aftermath of Katrina. Seeing damage everywhere, he became overwhelmed by the destruction surrounding him and soon wanted to see images of hope and recovery. It was at that point he made a promise to show the “true Mississippi Gulf Coast,” an area known for its natural beauty and spirit. The beautiful photographs in The Mississippi Gulf Coast are a testament to renewal in the face of adversity.
Download or read book Channels at Ship Island Pass and from Ship Island Harbor to the Mainland Miss written by Russell Alexander Alger and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anchorage Basin and Channel at Gulfport Miss and Ship Island Pass Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting Reports of Examination of Anchorage Basin at Gulfport of Channel Therefrom to the Roadstead at Ship Island and of Ship Island Pass and Survey of Ship Island Pass Mississippi December 6 1906 Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
