None But Texians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook None But Texians write by Jeffrey D. Murrah. This book was released on 2001. None But Texians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. None But Texians: presents the accomplishments and struggles of Terry's Texas Rangers as they fought through hundreds of engagements across seven states. This history covers the weapons the Rangers carried, flags they fought under, clothes they wore, songs they sang, and what became of many of them after the war.
Why Texans Fought in the Civil War
Why Texans Fought in the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Texans Fought in the Civil War write by Charles David Grear. This book was released on 2012-09-01. Why Texans Fought in the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining important primary sources—including thousands of letters and unpublished journals—he affords readers the opportunity to hear, often in the combatants’ own words, why it was so important to them to engage in tumultuous struggles occurring so far from home. As Grear notes, in the decade prior to the Civil War the population of Texas had tripled. The state was increasingly populated by immigrants from all parts of the South and foreign countries. When the war began, it was not just Texas that many of these soldiers enlisted to protect, but also their native states, where they had family ties.
Riding for the Lone Star
Riding for the Lone Star - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Riding for the Lone Star write by Nathan A. Jennings. This book was released on 2016-02-15. Riding for the Lone Star available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The idea of Texas was forged in the crucible of frontier warfare between 1822 and 1865, when Anglo-Americans adapted to mounted combat north of the Rio Grande. This cavalry-centric arena, which had long been the domain of Plains Indians and the Spanish Empire, compelled an adaptive martial tradition that shaped early Lone Star society. Beginning with initial tactical innovation in Spanish Tejas and culminating with massive mobilization for the Civil War, Texas society developed a distinctive way of war defined by armed horsemanship, volunteer militancy, and short-term mobilization as it grappled with both tribal and international opponents. Drawing upon military reports, participants' memoirs, and government documents, cavalry officer Nathan A. Jennings analyzes the evolution of Texan militarism from tribal clashes of colonial Tejas, territorial wars of the Texas Republic, the Mexican-American War, border conflicts of antebellum Texas, and the cataclysmic Civil War. In each conflict Texan volunteers answered the call to arms with marked enthusiasm for mounted combat. Riding for the Lone Star explores this societal passion--with emphasis on the historic rise of the Texas Rangers--through unflinching examination of territorial competition with Comanches, Mexicans, and Unionists. Even as statesmen Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston emerged as influential strategic leaders, captains like Edward Burleson, John Coffee Hays, and John Salmon Ford attained fame for tactical success.
The Fate of Texas
The Fate of Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fate of Texas write by Charles D. Grear. This book was released on 2008-09-01. The Fate of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Choice Outstanding Academic Title Texas has often been overlooked in Civil War scholarship, but this examination shows that the Lone Star State—though definitely unusual—was decidedly Southern. Eleven noted historians examine the ways the civil war touched every aspect of life in Texas and approach the subject from varied perspectives—military, social, and cultural history; public history; and historical memory—to provide a greater understanding of the roles of women and slaves during the war, and how veterans and the aftermath of loss helped pave the way for the Texas of today.
Our Trust is in the God of Battles
Our Trust is in the God of Battles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Trust is in the God of Battles write by Robert Franklin Bunting. This book was released on 2006. Our Trust is in the God of Battles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Unlike most Civil War soldiers, Bunting wrote with the explicit purpose of publishing his correspondence, seeking to influence congregations of civilians on the home front just as he had done when he lectured them from the pulpit before the Civil War. Bunting's letters cover military actions in great detail, yet they were also like sermons, filled with inspiring rhetoric that turned fallen soldiers into Christian martyrs, Yankees into godless abolitionist hordes, and Southern women into innocent defenders of home and hearth. As such, the public nature of Bunting's writings gives the reader an exceptional opportunity to see how Confederates constructed the ideal of a Southern soldier.".
