Edward B. Williams

Hood's Texas Brigade in the Civil War

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Produktbeschreibung

Of the many infantry brigades in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade earned the reputation as perhaps the premier unit. From 1862 until Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the brigade fought in most of the major campaigns in the Eastern Theater and several more in the Western, including the Seven Days, Second Manassas (Second Bull Run), Sharpsburg (Antietam), Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, the siege of Richmond and Petersburg, and Appomattox. Distinguished for its fierce tenacity and fighting ability, the brigade suffered some of the war's highest casualties. This volume chronicles Hood's Texas Brigade from its formation through postwar commemorations, providing a soldier's-eye view of the daring and bravery of this remarkable unit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 663g
• ISBN-13: 9780786468607
• ISBN-10: 0786468602
• Artikelnr.: 34564345

Autorenporträt

Edward B. Williams (Ph.D., Texas A&M) is a military historian. He is the author of Rebel Brothers: The Civil War Letters of the Truehearts and has published articles in America's Civil War, Aviation History, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, and Quarterly Journal of Military History. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and holds the rank of Captain, U.S.N.R., (Ret).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments    
Preface    
Introduction: "An example of daring and bravery"    
1. "You have treated me most shamefully": Texas Leaves the Federal
Union    
2. "We were in earnest, terribly so": On to Richmond, Texas Style    
3. "It is astonishing how such a splendid spirit was so long maintained":
An Anatomy of the Brigade    
4. "Those Texians are number one men": From the Potomac to the Peninsula,
July 1861-June 1862    
5. "Soldiers indeed": The 4th Texas and 18th Georgia at Gaines' Mill,
Virginia, June 27, 1862    
6. "The 5th Texas Regiment was a flame of terror": The 5th Texas at Second
Manassas, Virginia, August 29-30, 1862    
7. They fought bravely, and unflinchingly faced a terrible hail of bullets
and artillery": The 1st Texas at Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 16-17,
1862    
8. "As ... invited guests ... to witness that grand ... panorama of
splendid murder": Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862    
9. "O, my, ain't we in it? We just swim in bacon": Campaigners and
Commissaries on the Nansemond, Spring 1863    
10. [T]hese men were tried and seasoned soldiers, ... yet they were not
made of iron": The Pennsylvania Campaign, June-July 1863    
11. "[T]he meanest, most unsatisfactory place I struck during the whole
war": Operation "Westward Ho" to Chickamauga, September 1863     
12. "We had been detached from home ... family, Virginia and from Lee to go
down to Tennessee": Chattanooga to Knoxville, September-December 1863    
13. "Oh! Carry me back to ole Virginny": The Brigade's Tortuous Road Home,
December 1863-April 1864     
14. "Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you!": The Wilderness,
May 5-7, 1864     
15. "[T]he most painful and excruciating scenes of suffering and death":
Spotsylvania Court House to Cold Harbor, May 8-June 3, 1864    
16. "No troops ... fought us with more bravery than did those negroes":
James River to Forts Harrison and Gilmer, June-September 1864    
17. "The Texas Brigade is always ready": Darbytown Road to Five Forks,
October 7, 1864-March 30, 1865    
18."[F]rom first to last the most dependable brigade of the Army of
Northern Virginia": Retreat to Appomattox, April 2-April 9, 1865    
19. "[T]he Texas Brigade ... the most renowned of all": Advance into
Legend, April 12, 1865, and Beyond    
Epilogue-"Home at last": Captain Ike N. M. Turner, Co. K, 5th Texas, Comes
Home to Texas, 1995     
Appendices A: Companies in Hood's Texas Brigade, A.N.V., Including Local
Designations, Original Captains and Where Raised     
B: "Oh! This is a dreadful war": Representative Mortality Figures    
C: Deaths by Disease in the Texas Regiments    
Chapter Notes    
Bibliography     
Index     333