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Author |
: Lawrence L. Hewitt |
Publisher |
: Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2013-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781572339859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1572339853 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi, Vol 1 by : Lawrence L. Hewitt
Until relatively recently, conventional wisdom held that the Trans-Mississippi Theater was a backwater of the American Civil War. Scholarship in recent decades has corrected this oversight, and a growing number of historians agree that the events west of the Mississippi River proved integral to the outcome of the war. Nevertheless, generals in the Trans-Mississippi have received little attention compared to their eastern counterparts, and many remain mere footnotes to Civil War history. This welcome volume features cutting-edge analyses of eight Southern generals in this most neglected theater—Thomas Hindman, Theophilus Holmes, Edmund Kirby Smith, Mosby Monroe Parsons, John Marmaduke, Thomas James Churchill, Thomas Green, and Joseph Orville Shelby—providing an enlightening new perspective on the Confederate high command. Although the Trans-Mississippi has long been considered a dumping ground for failed generals from other regions, the essays presented here demolish that myth, showing instead that, with a few notable exceptions, Confederate commanders west of the Mississippi were homegrown, not imported, and compared well with their more celebrated peers elsewhere. With its virtually nonexistent infrastructure, wildly unpredictable weather, and few opportunities for scavenging, the Trans-Mississippi proved a challenge for commanders on both sides of the conflict. As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, only the most creative minds could operate successfully in such an unforgiving environment. While some of these generals have been the subjects of larger studies, others, including Generals Holmes, Parsons, and Churchill, receive their first serious scholarly attention in these pages. Clearly demonstrating the independence of the Trans-Mississippi and the nuances of the military struggle there, while placing both the generals and the theater in the wider scope of the war, these eight essays offer valuable new insight into Confederate military leadership and the ever-vexing questions of how and why the South lost this most defining of American conflicts.
Author |
: Lawrence L. Hewitt |
Publisher |
: Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781572337008 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1572337001 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Confederate Generals in the Western Theater: Classic essays on America's Civil War by : Lawrence L. Hewitt
Confederate Generals in the Western Theater ultimately comprise several volumes that promise a host of provocative new insights into not only the South's ill-fated campaigns in the West but also the eventual outcome of the larger conflict. --Book Jacket.
Author |
: Lawrence Lee Hewitt |
Publisher |
: Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2015-05-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781621900894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1621900894 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi, Vol. 2 by : Lawrence Lee Hewitt
"Generals in the Trans-Mississippi have received little attention compared to their eastern counterparts, and many remain mere footnotes to Civil War history. This welcome volume features cutting-edge analyses of eight Southern generals in this most neglected theater-Thomas Hindman, Theophilus Holmes, Edmund Kirby Smith, Mosby Monroe Parsons, John Marmaduke, Thomas James Churchill, Thomas Green, and Joseph Orville Shelby-providing an enlightening new perspective on the Confederate high command." From book jacket.
Author |
: Robert L. Kerby |
Publisher |
: University Alabama Press |
Total Pages |
: 562 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015024813894 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kirby Smith's Confederacy by : Robert L. Kerby
Offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything in pursuit of unattainable military victory With the surrender of Vicksburg in July 1863, the Confederacy's TransMississippi Department, which included Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, western Louisiana, and Indian Territory, was cut off from the remainder of the South. Robert Kerby's insightful volume, originally published in 1972, "has gone far toward filling one of the most conspicuous gaps in the literature on the Confederacy," according to The Journal of Southern History. Kerby investigates the many factors that led to the Department's disintegrating and offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything, including its principles and ideals, in pursuit of an unattainable military victory.
Author |
: Lawrence L. Hewitt |
Publisher |
: Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2011-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781572337909 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1572337907 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, Vol. 3 by : Lawrence L. Hewitt
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Author |
: William Royston Geise |
Publisher |
: Savas Beatie |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2022-08-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781954547438 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1954547439 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865 by : William Royston Geise
William Royston Geise was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1970s when he researched and wrote The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861- 1865: A Study in Command in 1974. Although it remained unpublished, it was not wholly unknown. Deep-diving researchers were aware of Dr. Geise’s work and lamented the fact that it was not widely available to the general public. In many respects, studies of the Trans-Mississippi Theater are only now catching up with Geise. This intriguing book traces the evolution of Confederate command and how it affected the shifting strategic situation and general course of the war. Dr. Geise accomplishes his task by coming at the question in a unique fashion. Military field operations are discussed as needed, but his emphasis is on the functioning of headquarters and staff—the central nervous system of any military command. This was especially so for the Trans-Mississippi. After July 1863, the only viable Confederate agency west of the great river was the headquarters at Shreveport. That hub of activity became the sole location to which all isolated players, civilians and military alike, could look for immediate overall leadership and a sense of Confederate solidarity. By filling these needs, the Trans-Mississippi Department assumed a unique and vital role among Confederate military departments and provided a focus for continued Confederate resistance west of the Mississippi River. The author’s work mining primary archival sources and published firsthand accounts, coupled with a smooth and clear writing style, helps explain why this remote department (referred to as “Kirby Smithdom” after Gen. Kirby Smith) failed to function efficiently, and how and why the war unfolded there as it did. Trans-Mississippi Theater historian and Ph.D. candidate Michael J. Forsyth (Col., U.S. Army, Ret.) has resurrected Dr. Geise’s smoothly written and deeply researched manuscript from its undeserved obscurity. This edition, with its original annotations and Forsyth’s updated citations and observations, is bolstered with original maps, photographs, and images. Students of the war in general, and the Trans-Mississippi Theater in particular, will delight in its long overdue publication.
Author |
: Deborah M. Liles |
Publisher |
: University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2016-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781574416510 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1574416510 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women in Civil War Texas by : Deborah M. Liles
Women in Civil War Texas is the first book dedicated to the unique experiences of Texas women during the Civil War. It fills the literary void in Texas women’s history during this time, connects Texas women’s lives to southern women’s history, and shares the diversity of experiences of women in Texas during the Civil War. An introductory essay situates the anthology within both Civil War and Texas women’s history. Contributors explore Texas women and their vocal support for secession and in support of a war, coping with their husbands’ wartime absences, the importance of letter-writing as a means of connecting families, and how pro-Union sentiment caused serious difficulties for women. They also analyze the effects of ethnicity, focusing on African American, German, and Tejana women’s experiences. Finally, two essays examine the problem of refugee women in east Texas and the dangers facing western frontier women. These essays develop the historical understanding of what it meant to be a Texas woman during the Civil War and also contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the war and its effects.
Author |
: James J. Broomall |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2019-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469649764 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469649764 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Private Confederacies by : James J. Broomall
How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows, the crisis of the war forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South. Raised in an antebellum culture that demanded restraint and shaped white men to embrace self-reliant masculinity, Confederate soldiers lived and fought within military units where they experienced the traumatic strain of combat and its privations together--all the while being separated from suffering families. Military service provoked changes that escalated with the end of slavery and the Confederacy's military defeat. Returning to civilian life, Southern veterans questioned themselves as never before, sometimes suffering from terrible self-doubt. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, Broomall argues that the crisis of defeat ultimately necessitated new forms of expression between veterans and among men and women. On the one hand, war led men to express levels of emotionality and vulnerability previously assumed the domain of women. On the other hand, these men also embraced a virulent, martial masculinity that they wielded during Reconstruction and beyond to suppress freed peoples and restore white rule through paramilitary organizations and the Ku Klux Klan.
Author |
: William Glenn Robertson |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 697 |
Release |
: 2018-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469643137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469643138 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign by : William Glenn Robertson
The Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's western theater. It pitted Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee against William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland and resulted in more than 34,500 casualties. In this first volume of an authoritative two-volume history of the Chickamauga Campaign, William Glenn Robertson provides a richly detailed narrative of military operations in southeastern and eastern Tennessee as two armies prepared to meet along the "River of Death." Robertson tracks the two opposing armies from July 1863 through Bragg's strategic decision to abandon Chattanooga on September 9. Drawing on all relevant primary and secondary sources, Robertson devotes special attention to the personalities and thinking of the opposing generals and their staffs. He also sheds new light on the role of railroads on operations in these landlocked battlegrounds, as well as the intelligence gathered and used by both sides. Delving deep into the strategic machinations, maneuvers, and smaller clashes that led to the bloody events of September 19@–20, 1863, Robertson reveals that the road to Chickamauga was as consequential as the unfolding of the battle itself.
Author |
: Bruce S. Allardice |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2006-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807155745 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807155748 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis More Generals in Gray by : Bruce S. Allardice
Presents a biographical sketch, photograph, and short bibliography of 137 Confederate generals who attained their rank through a route other than presidential appointment and have therefore been largely overlooked in historical accounts of the Civil War.