Spartan Band: Burnett\u27s 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War

Civil war book review, 2005

Civil War Book Review

2017

Revisiting the Old Roman Nose, the First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and the War. Dan Lee is a Civil War historian and the author of The L&N Railroad in the Civil War: A Vital North-South Link and Struggle to Control and Thomas J. Wood: A Biography of the Union General in the Civ...

2012

The Journal of Military History, 2004

Civil War Book Review, 2012

Following an Important Confederate Regiment Considering the number of regiments North Carolina supplied to the Confederate army, there are surprisingly few modern regimental histories of their service. There were more than seventy regiments, but there are currently only about ten full-length regimental histories. Whenever a new title is announced, its forthcoming appearance is greeted with anticipation. Just such anticipation has been brewing for James Gillispie's now-released Cape Fear Confederate: The 18th North Carolina Regiment in the Civil War.

East Texas Historical Journal, 2008

In March 1864, Union forces began their fifth attempt to invade Texas in less than fifteen months. The commander of the Union Department of the Gulf, based in New Orleans, was Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks. With aspirations for the presidency. Banks was at that time arguably more popular than Abraham Lincoln. He needed a stunning, or at least a well publicized, victory to vault him into office. The Union Navy had failed at Galveston Bay on New Year's Day, 1863.' Banks' 19th Corps commander. Major General William Buet Franklin, had failed miserably at Sabine Pass on September 8, 1863 and^ again in October and November during the Texas Overland Expedition.' The fourth attempt at least landed troops on Texas soil, this time on the barrier islands along the coast and at Brownsville during November 1863, but no meaningful attempt was made to strike inland.'' The fifth expedition was the Red River Campaign, resulting in the largest combined arms operation ...

2014

the seceded states fought hard to preserve their new found independence. The plight of the seceded Confederacy, commonly known as "the lost cause," came with potentially disastrous end results. If the Confederacy were defeated, all of its citizens could be labeled as traitors and put to death, causing Confederate soldiers to fight hard to ensure their freedom. One regiment in particular, the Sixth Mississippi Infantry Regiment, performed great acts of valor, once charging the enemy repeatedly until the Sixth itself was in such a shambles that it was forced to retire from the field. From its first engagement at Shiloh to its dissolution at Citronelle, the Sixth Mississippi's service was marked by a tradition of great courage and devotion. Two and a half years prior to Mississippi's secession from the Union, citizens of Brandon, Mississippi gathered inside the Rankin County Court House on the morning of October 16, 1858, to discuss for the very first time as a community the need for a "Volunteer Military Company"a militia. 1 By the 25 th day of the same month, sixty men were able to proudly call themselves members of the Rankin Guards, one of the first of many militia units formed in the South just prior to the Civil War. 2 In February of 1861, just one month after Mississippi's secession from the Union, the Rankin Guards were rechristened the Rankin Greys under the direction of their commanding officer, Captain J. J. Thornton. 3 The next year, on August 24, at Grenada, Mississippi, the Rankin Greys were mustered into the Sixth Mississippi Infantry along with nine other companies formed from nearby counties, whose paths to formation would likely have been similar to that of 1 H.

2016

During the United States Civil War, southwestern Virginia was mired in a bloody guerrilla conflict that involved Confederate irregular combatants defending the region from invading or raiding Union Army forces. Simmering for the entirety of the war, this conflict revolved around the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad (V&T), a critical railway that ran through southwestern Virginia and connected the southwestern Confederacy with Richmond and the rest of Virginia. As the war progressed, this railway moved increasingly large amounts of foodstuffs and minerals vital to the Confederate war effort, and by the later stages of the war it was the most important railway in the South. Union Army commanders in West Virginia recognized the incredible importance of the V&T to the Confederacy, and launched a multitude of major and minor invasions and raids into southwestern Virginia with the intent of crippling the railroad. Confederate partisan rangers, bushwhackers, and home guards played separate roles in weakening, distracting, and hampering Union Army operations in southwestern Virginia, thereby helping to defend the V&T from attacks. Their actions played a crucial role in ensuring the survival of the railroad until nearly the end of the war, and thus Confederate guerrillas had a strategic effect on the course of the war in southwestern Virginia.