Brush Men and Vigilantes
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: David Pickering
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatized, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger across the South. In scattered pockets from the Caro
Texas Terror
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Donald E. Reynolds
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-01 - Publisher: LSU Press

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On July 8, 1860, fire destroyed the entire business section of Dallas, Texas. At about the same time, two other fires damaged towns near Dallas. Early reports i
Mutiny at Fort Jackson
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Michael D. Pierson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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New Orleans was the largest city--and one of the richest--in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Missis
The Devil's Triangle
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: James M. Smallwood
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-15 - Publisher: University of North Texas Press

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In the Texas Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), many returning Confederate veterans organized outlaw gangs and Ku Klux Klan groups to continue the war and to take
Riding for the Lone Star
Language: en
Pages: 455
Authors: Nathan A. Jennings
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-15 - Publisher: University of North Texas Press

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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.