Author: Publisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Housing and Planning References
Author: Housing and Planning References
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Louisiana's Comprehensive Archaeological Plan
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Protecting the Right to Vote
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Planting the Union Flag in Texas
Author: Stephen A. DupreePublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585446414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Appointed by President Lincoln to command the Gulf Department in November 1862, Nathaniel Prentice Banks was given three assignments, one of which was to occupy some point in Texas. He was told that when he united his army with Grant’s, he would assume command of both. Banks, then, had the opportunity to become the leading general in the West—perhaps the most important general in the war. But he squandered what successes he had, never rendezvoused with Grant’s army, and ultimately orchestrated some of the greatest military blunders of the war. “Banks’s faults as a general,” writes author Stephen A. Dupree, “were legion.” The originality of Planting the Union Flag in Texas lies not just in the author’s description of the battles and campaigns Banks led, nor in his recognition of the character traits that underlay Banks’s decisions. Rather, it lies in how Dupree synthesizes his studies of Banks’s various actions during his tour of duty in and near Texas to help the reader understand them as a unified campaign. He skillfully weaves together Banks’s various attempts to gain Union control of Texas with his other activities and shines the light of Banks’s character on the resulting events to help explain both their potential and their shortcomings. In the end, readers will have a holistic understanding of Banks’s “appalling” failure to win Texas and may even be led to ask how the post–Civil War era might have been different had he been successful. This fine study will appeal to Civil War buffs and fans of military and Texas history.
Red River Campaign
Author: Ludwell H. JohnsonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421434458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Originally published in 1958. Johnson tells the story of the Red River Campaign, which took place in Louisiana and Arkansas in the spring of 1864. In response to the demands of Union Free-Soil interests in Texas, and the need of New England textile manufacturers for cotton, an expedition was undertaken to open the way to Texas. General Nathaniel Banks conducted a combined military and naval expedition up the Red River in a campaign that lasted only from March 23 to May 20, 1864, but was one of the most destructive of the Civil War. The campaign ended in Banks's defeat at the Battle of Sabine Crossroads. This book illustrates how military operations during the Civil War were often intimately interwoven with political, economic, and ideological factors, which frequently determined the time and place of a Union offensive. The author describes the desires and opinions of the public, the press, and Lincoln's administration regarding an invasion of Texas, as well as the motivation of the officers themselves, such as Banks's aspiration for the 1864 presidential nomination. Johnson relates vividly the various battles of the expedition and the problems posed by mustering undisciplined troops, by having to procure supplies in poor country with insufficient supply lines, and by contending with bad weather and rough terrain.
The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer
Author: The Forty-Sixth Indiana Regiment:
Author: Major Michael S. BeamesPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782896260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
This thesis is an historical analysis of the amphibious operations of the 46th Indiana. The primary research question is whether the amphibious operations of the 46th Indiana were effective towards the Union’s success in the Mississippi River valley. Using Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1-3, Tactics, this thesis will compare the 46th Indiana’s employment of tactics to the Marine Corps’ current use of tactics according to doctrine. Tactical concepts that achieve success on the battlefield are achieving a decision, gaining an advantage, being faster, adapting, cooperating, and exploiting success. These six concepts form the foundation of the analysis of the 46th Indiana’s operations and tactics during the Civil War. Secondary research areas to determine the effectiveness of the 46th Indiana’s amphibious operations are training, command and control, casualty statistics, unit cohesion and morale.
Louisiana
Author: Alcée FortierPublisher:
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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