Author: B. P. Gallaway
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780803270367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of forty documents dating from the eve of the Civil War to the collaspe of the Confederacy chronicling the Civil War in Texas.
Author: Drew Hines
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2024-03-18
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1540260178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The "Dark" in the Dark Corner Years ago, when travelers to northern Greenville County asked a local where the Dark Corner was, invariably their reply was, "Just a little further up the road." In those days few people wanted to admit they lived in that much storied and much maligned part of the county known as the Dark Corner. The Dark Corner in those days was legendary for its moonshine, murder and mayhem. This is the story of that well-known region. We travel back to the Dark Corner's earliest days when its only human inhabitants were the Cherokee, and we move into the present where horse farms and multi-million-dollar homes dot the countryside that once contained moonshine stills and cornfields.
Author: Michael C. C. Adams
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1421421453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Surrounding the war with an aura of nostalgia both fosters the delusion that war can cure our social ills and makes us strong again, and weakens confidence in our ability to act effectively in our own time."—Journal of Military History
Author: Charles Kelly Barrow
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781565549371
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains correspondence, military records, and reminiscences from brave men who served what they considered their country.
Author: John Kennedy Toole
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0802197620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
Author: James I. Robertson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 142620812X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →132 untold stories and 475 rare illustrations offer a completely new perspective on the Civil War.
Author: Rodman L. Underwood
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2008-03-18
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0786437766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the beginning of the American Civil War the Federal government imposed a blockade of the southern coast of the Confederate States of America, including the "dark corner of the Confederacy"--Texas. Much of the fighting in Texas during the Civil War took place in the state's coastal counties and the adjoining Gulf of Mexico waters, and nearly all of these engagements were involved in one way or another with the Union blockade of the Texas coast. This book examines all major blockade-related land and sea engagements in and near Texas, and also includes many minor ones. It begins with a discussion of the blockade's creation and then concentrates on the successful Confederate efforts to evade the blockade by shipping cotton out of Mexico and, in return, receiving materiel and civilian goods through that neutral nation. The author also covers political intrigue and the spy activity with the French who had invaded Mexico. The book concludes with an analysis of the effectiveness of the Union blockade of Texas.
Author: S a Carter
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 1449019129
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