Author: W. M. MurphyPublisher:
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The History of Madison Parish, Louisiana
Author: W. M. MurphyPublisher:
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Notes from the History of Madison Parish, Louisiana
Author: William M. MurphyPublisher:
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Category : Madison Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Madison Parish
Author: Richard P. SevierPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738515106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Founded in 1838 and located in extreme northeastern Louisiana, Madison Parish has a rich and colorful history. It is the setting of Kate Stone's best-selling Civil War diary, Brokenburn, and played an important role during that era-Generals Grant, Sherman, and McClernan assembled their troops in Madison Parish months before their assault on Vicksburg. Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C.J. Walker, was born in Madison Parish and ultimately rose from a lowly washerwoman to the first black female millionaire in the United States. Images of America: Madison Parish, containing over 200 black-and-white images, highlights the history of this fascinating community through photographs, drawings, and maps. Included are Civil War scenes, the 1907 bear hunt by President Theodore Roosevelt, and numerous professional photographs of the disastrous 1927 flood that paralyzed the parish and surrounding areas for several months.
An Economic and Social History of Madison Parish, Louisiana
Author: David Arnold CreedPublisher:
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Category : Madison Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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National Register Houses and Sites in Madison Parish, Louisiana
Author: Madison Historical Society (Tallulah, La.)Publisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Brokenburn
Author: John Q. AndersonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807120170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in Texas, and finally returned to a devastated home. Kate began her journal in May, 1861, and made regular entries up to November, 1865. She included briefer sketches in 1867 and 1868. In chronicling her everyday activities, Kate reveals much about a way of life that is no more: books read, plantation management and crops, maintaining slaves in the antebellum period, the attitude and conduct of slaves during the war, the fate of refugees, and civilian morale. Without pretense and with almost photographic clarity, she portrays the South during its darkest hours.
Description and History of Madison Parish Created in the 1930s
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Languages : en
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Text, circa 1930s. Description and history of Madison Parish including physical and geographic layout, namesake, political bordor disputes, chief agricultural products, hunting and fishing areas, population and railroads.
The Civil War in Louisiana
Author: John D. WintersPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807117255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This comprehensive history fills an important gap in the story of the Civil War. Too often the war waged west of the Mississippi River has been given short shrift by historians and scholars, who have tended to focus their attention on the great battles east of the river. This book looks in detail at the military operations that occurred in Louisiana—most of them minor skirmishes, but some of them battles and campaigns of major importance. The Civil War in Louisiana begins with the first talk of secession in the state and ends with the last tragic days of the war. John D. Winters describes with great fervor and detail such events as the fall of Confederate New Orleans and the burning of Alexandria. In addition to military action, Winters discusses the political, economic, and social aspects of the war in Louisiana. His accounts of battles and the men who waged them provide a fuller story of Louisiana in the Civil War than has ever before been told.
Memories of a Madison Parish Native
Author: Geneva Rountree WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Madison Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Historical Sketches and Reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana
Author: John La Rue ForknerPublisher:
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Category : Madison County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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