Author: Robert A. HasskarlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Waul's Texas Legion, 1862-1865
Author: Robert A. HasskarlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Waul's Texas Legion, 1862-1865
Author: Robert A. HasskarlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Waul?s Legion
Author: MICHAEL. STEINMANPublisher: Lulu Publishing Services
ISBN: 9781483496061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
John Steinmann's military service began when he left his wife and infant son at home in Independence, Texas, and joined the Confederate States Army. He never returned. If his family ever had any information about his service, it was lost with time. As the author began searching for some trace of his great-great-grandfather, he discovered that he belonged to Company A, Waul's Texas Legion. This discovery created as many questions as it answered. Colonel Waul's unique command contained two infantry battalions, a cavalry battalion, and an artillery battery?all of which had a Company A. In his quest for more information, the author discovered that very little had been written about the legion. This book represents the most complete and comprehensive account of its formation and activities during the Civil War. On March 6, 1862, the secretary of war of the Confederate States of America authorized Thomas Neville Waul to form a legion of troops?amounting to about two thousand men.
Captain Voigt's Company of Waul's Texas Legion
Author: Wolfram M. Von-MaszewskiPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546336433
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Robert Julius Voigt (1832-1866) emigrated from Germany to Texas in 1850. In Houston he became a founding member of the Houston Turn Verein, a German cultural and social organization and participated in its ceremonial and para-military organization. At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined a militia company in Austin County, Texas, that was composed of German-Texans. On the strength of his informal military training, he was elected captain. When the company volunteered to serve in the Confederate Army, his men again chose him as their captain. He took the responsibility seriously. Years later one of his soldiers recalled that Voigt took care of his men like a father. He was their spokesman as they served among an English-speaking population. In turn, the company was recognized for its military conduct and was entrusted with special assignments in Greenwood and Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Waul's Legion from Texas to Mississippi
Author: Laura SimmonsThe First Texas Legion During the American Civil War
Author: Allen G. HatleyPublisher:
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Peculiar Honor
Author: M. Jane JohanssonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This regimental history tells the story of the 28th Texas Cavalry (dismounted), a unit of Walker's Texas Division which campaigned throughout the Civil War in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Part of the division known as "Walker's Greyhounds" because of their amazing mobility and stamina, the men of the 28th, helped preserve Texas from Federal invasion. 1997 Winner of the Ottis Lock Award for the Best Book on East Texas History
Between the Enemy and Texas
Author: Anne J. BaileyPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875655149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Much of the Civil War west of the Mississippi was a war of waiting for action, of foraging already stripped land for an army that supposedly could provision itself, and of disease in camp, while trying to hold out against Union pressure. There were none of the major engagements that characterized the conflict farther east. Instead, small units of Confederate cavalry and infantry skirmished with Federal forces in Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana, trying to hold the western Confederacy together. The many units of Texans who joined this fight had a second objective—to keep the enemy out of their home state by placing themselves “between the enemy and Texas.” Historian Anne J. Bailey studies one Texas unit, Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, to show how the war west of the Mississippi was fought. Historian Norman D. Brown calls this “the definitive study of Parsons's Cavalry Brigade; the story will not need to be told again.” Exhaustively researched and written with literary grace, Between the Enemy and Texas is a “must” book for anyone interested in the role of mounted troops in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Texas in the War, 1861-1865
Author: Marcus Joseph WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The most complete history of Texas in the Civil War to appear since 1900.
In the Saddle with the Texans
Author: Anne J. BaileyPublisher: State House Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This book is a transcription of the original, hand written Order Book of Parson's Texas Cavalry, and gives the day-by-day account of the actions and movements of the unit during the War Between the States.