Author: Carolyn R. EricsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570882449
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Jefferson County, Texas in the Civil War
Author: Carolyn R. EricsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570882449
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Jefferson County in the Civil War
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780911317909
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Short biographical sketches of Confederate Veterans and/or their wives.
An East Texas Family’s Civil War
Author: John T. WhatleyPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807171328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband, Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves, overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria. Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her advice, sympathy, and shared frustration. In An East Texas Family’s Civil War, the Whatleys’ great-grandson, John T. Whatley, transcribes and annotates these letters for the first time. Notable for their descriptions of the unraveling of the local slave labor system and accounts of rural southern life, Nancy’s letters offer a rare window on the hardships faced by women on the home front taking on unprecedented responsibilities and filling unfamiliar roles.
Civil War Texas
Author: Ralph A. WoosterPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1625110170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Written by one of the deans of Texas history, Civil War Texas provides an authoritative, comprehensive description of Texas during the Civil War as well as a guide for those who wish to visit sites in Texas associated with the war. In one compact volume, the reader or tourist is led on an exciting historical journey through Civil War Texas. Because most of the great battles of the Civil War were fought east of the Mississippi River, it is often forgotten that Texas made major contributions to the war effort in terms of men and supplies. Over 70,000 Texans served in the Confederate army during the war and fought in almost every major battle. Ordnance works, shops, and depots were established for the manufacture and repair of weapons of war, and Texas cotton shipped through Mexico was exchanged for weapons and ammunition. The state itself was the target of the Union army and navy. Galveston, the principal seaport, was occupied by Federal forces for three months and blockaded by the Union navy for four years. Brownsville, Port Lavaca, and Indianola were captured, and Sabine Pass, Corpus Christi, and Laredo were all under enemy attack. A major Federal attempt to invade East Texas by way of Louisiana was stopped only a few miles from the Texas border. The Civil War had significant impact upon life within the state. The naval blockade created shortages requiring Texans to find substitutes for various commodities such as coffee, salt, ink, pins, and needles. The war affected Texas women, many of whom were now required to operate farms and plantations in the absence of their soldier husbands. As the author points out in the narrative, not all Texans supported the Confederacy. Many Texans, especially in the Hill Country and North Texas, opposed secession and attempted either to remain neutral or work for a Union victory. Over two thousand Texans, led by future governor Edmund J. Davis, joined the Union army. In this carefully researched work, Ralph A. Wooster describes Texas's role in the war. He also notes the location of historical markers, statues, monuments, battle sites, buildings, and museums in Texas which may be visited by those interested in learning more about the war. Photographs, maps, chronology, end notes, and bibliography provide additional information on Civil War Texas.
Texas and Texans in the Civil War
Author: Ralph A. WoosterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A well-researched volume, drawing from primary documents, official records, manuscripts and printed sources and works of other Texas and Civil War historians.
Notes on Texas
Author: George Thomas ToddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The notes include an A. Ms. S., dated January 15, 1886, and a clipping from the Jefferson Iron News, February 10, 1886, in which the last portion of the Ms. prepared for H.H. Bancroft was printed. With his father to Texas, 1843; settler at Boston and at Clarksville, Red River County; senior Todd a lawyer, Judge of the Eighth Judicial District of Texas, and a member of the Secession Convention of 1861; law practice of son from 1860; Civil War service in Hood's Texas Brigade; life at Jefferson as lawyer, district attorney, and legislator; comments on frontier contests between Regulators and Moderators in northeastern Texas. The printed "notes" concern Jefferson County's resources and advantages.
Moss Bluff Rebel
Author: Philip Robert CaudillPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 160344615X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Reveals a detailed portrait of a fascinating Texan, William Duncan-- businessman, county sheriff, cattleman, and Confederate officer-- capturing his wartime emotions and his postwar struggles to reinvent the lifestyle he knew before the war. Also explores the everyday life of the Anglo-Texans who settled the Mexican land grants in the early nineteenth century and subsequently became citizens of the proudly independent Texas Republic.
An East Texas Family’s Civil War
Author: John T. WhatleyPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080717131X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband, Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves, overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria. Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her advice, sympathy, and shared frustration. In An East Texas Family’s Civil War, the Whatleys’ great-grandson, John T. Whatley, transcribes and annotates these letters for the first time. Notable for their descriptions of the unraveling of the local slave labor system and accounts of rural southern life, Nancy’s letters offer a rare window on the hardships faced by women on the home front taking on unprecedented responsibilities and filling unfamiliar roles.
Murder in Jefferson
Author: Andrew Spencer (Poet)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984645831
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
"Trouble was brewing in Jefferson, Texas, on the night of October 4, 1868. The Civil War had ended, and the riverport city was occupied by Federal troops to keep the peace. George Webster Smith, a carpetbagger who had become involved in local politics had been sequestered in the city jail - the calaboose - for his own safety. Four freedmen, Cornelius Turner, Lewis Grant, Richard Stewart, and Anderson Wright, were locked in with him for the same reason. The local authorities had posted guards to protect those in the calaboose from any harm. Suddenliy, a handful of men burst into the jail yard, disarming the guards, and making way for what was said to be about one hundred masked vigilantes - suspected to be members of a local organization called "The Knights of the Rising Sun." The events that followed that evening set the stage for one of the most predominant trials in Jefferson's history. Some of the men accused of the crimes that night were pillars of the community, and the number of suspects was so large that a stockade was built near Big Cypress Bayou on the south side of town to house them. Even thoughthe "Stockade Trial"--As it was called - attempted to determine the exact events of that murderous night, the truth may never be known ... but the story of that October evening will live forever in Jefferson's history." -- Cover.
A History of Jefferson
Author: Arch McKayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258457037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description