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9. Texas in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1874)
Alexander, Eveline Martin. Cavalry Wife: The Diary of Eveline
M. Alexander, 1866-1867: Being a Record of Her Journey from New
York to Fort Smith to Join Her Cavalry-Officer Husband, Andrew
J. Alexander, and Her Experiences with Him on Active Duty among
the Indian Nations and in Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Edited by Sandra L. Myers. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M
University Press, 1977. NRG, RVS: E 83.866 .A43 1977
Barry, James Buckner. Buck Barry: Texas Ranger and Frontiersman.
Edited by James K. Greer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1984. CYP: F 391 .B28
Blessington, Joseph Palmer. The Campaigns of Walker's Texas
Division, By a Private Soldier. Austin, Texas: State House
Press, 1994. (Reprint of 1875 edition. Only complete history of
largest single unit of Texas troops in the Civil War. Division
served primarily in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Its major
contributions were in opposition to Gen. N. P. Banks' invasion
of Louisiana. Author was a corporal on staff of General Richard
Scurry. Derived from Blessington's diaries. NRG: E 580.5 .W34
B54 1994
Carroll, John M., ed. Custer in Texas, An Interrupted Narrative:
Including Narratives of the First Iowa Cavalry, the Seventh Indiana
Cavalry, the Fifth Illinois Cavalry, the Second Wisconsin Cavalry,
and the Military Mutiny in Custer's Command while in Louisiana.
New York: S. Lewis, 1975. (Partly written by Elizabeth B.
Custer [wife of George].) RGC: R 467.1 .C99 C82 1975
Cater, Douglas. As It Was: Reminiscences of a Soldier of the
Third Texas Cavalry and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry.
Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 1990. (Views of life in antebellum
northwestern Louisiana and northeastern Texas [Rusk County]. In
the Civil War, author in Third Texas Cavalry until June 1862;
then in Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry to end of war. Fought in
battles of Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, Chickamauga, Missionary
Ridge, Franklin, and Nashville.) RVS: E 580.6 3rd .C38 1990
Custer, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains, or, General Custer
in Kansas and Texas. University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. (Reprint
of 1893 edition. First part of book relevant to this course. Describes
overland trip of author, husband, and federal troops southwestward
from Washington, D.C. Louisiana and Texas at end of Civil War,
and their sojourn in Austin until end of January, 1866. Provides
detailed descriptions of army officer's home life and comments
on Texas during the early months of Reconstruction.) CYP: F 594
.C986 1994
Cutrer, Thomas W., ed. Terry Texas Ranger Trilogy. (Includes
L. B. Giles, Terry's Texas Rangers; J. K. P. Blackburn,
Reminiscences of the Terry Rangers; E. S. Dodd, The
Diary of Ephraim Shelly Dodd.) Austin, Tex.: State House Press,
1996 RGC: E 580.6 8th .T47 1996
Davis, Nicholas A. The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, with
the Battle of Fredericksburg. Austin, Tex.: The Steck Company,
1961. (Reprint of 1863 edition. Author, a Cumberland Presbyterian
minister and Confederate chaplain, recounts movement of Texan
Confederate volunteers in 1861 from Houston area to Richmond,
Virginia., where they became part of a regiment in Hood's Brigade.
Tells of regiment's participation in Peninsular Campaign and battles
of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.) RGC: E 545
.D26 1961
Fletcher, William A. Rebel Private, Front and Rear: Memoirs
of a Confederate Soldier. New York: Penguin Group. 1997. (Author
spent first part of his life in western Louisiana and eastern
Texas. Was a footsoldier with Hood's Texans and as a horseman
with Terry's Texas Rangers. Fought in early battles around Richmond,
at the Second Battle of Bull Run, at Fredericksburg, at Gettysburg,
and at Chickamauga. Assisted with harrassment of Sherman's rear
guard in march to the sea in Georgia. Wrote of getting along well
with Federal troops in Texas during Reconstruction. Memoir written
when author was 65.) RGC: E 605 .F58 1885
Gallaway, B. P., ed. Texas, The Dark Corner of the Confederacy:
Contemporary Accounts of the Lone Star State in the Civil War.
3rd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. (First
thirteen documents deal with Texas in the late ante-bellum period.
Includes excellent historiographical esay on Texas Civil War historiography.
Instructor has table of contents.) PIN: E 580.9 .T49 1994
Goyne, Minetta Altgelt. Lone Star and Double Eagle: Civil War
Letters of a German-Texas Family. Fort Worth: Texas Christian
University Press, 1982. NRG, RGC: E 605 .G667 1982
Graber, H. W. A Terry Texas Ranger: The Life Record of H. W.
Graber. Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 1987. NRG, RGC: F
391 .G69 1987
Heartsill, William W. Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate
Army: A Journal Kept by W. W. Heartsill; or Camp Life: Day by
Day of the W. P. Lane Rangers from April 19, 1861 to May 20, 1865.
Wilmington, N.C. : Broadfoot, 1992. (Originally published
in 1867. Author in 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment.) RGC: E 580.6 W18
H43 1992
Holmes, Sarah Katherine (Stone). Brokenburn: The Journal of
Kate Stone.(Library of Southern Civilization.) Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1972. (Louisiana woman who spent
part of the Civil War in "exile" in Texas.) RGC: E 487
.H74 1972
King, Edward. The Great South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1972. (First published in 1875. Record of journeys
in all of the ex-slave states (except Delaware) plus the Indian
Territory. Emphasis on the freedmen.) NRG, RGC: F 215 .K52 1972
McConnell, H. H. Five Years a Cavalryman, or, Sketches of Regular
Army Life on the Texas Frontier, 1866-1871. Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1996. CYP: F 391 .M129 1996
Peticolas, A. B. Rebels on the Rio Grande: The Civil War Journals
of A. B. Peticolas. Ed. by Don E. Alberts. Albuquerque: University
of New Mexico Press, 1984. (Texas Confederate soldier in the New
Mexico campaign.) NRG: E 605 .P47 1984
Ross, Lawrence Sullivan. Personal Civil War Letters of Lawrence
Sullivan "Sull" Ross, CSA, to His Wife, with Other Letters.
Translated and compiled by Perry Wayne Shelton. Austin, Texas:
W. M. Morrison Books, 1994. RGC: E 605 .R73 1994
Walton, William Walton. An Epitome of My Life; Civil War Reminiscences.
Austin, Tex.: The Waterloo Press, 1965. (Written in 1914-1915.
Author a prominent Austin lawyer. Enlisted in Confederate Army
in March of 1862. Much of book tells of scouting and fighting
in Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana [the last in the Red River
Campaign].) RGC: E 605 .W27 1965
[See also: Texas in the Nineteenth Century (Sources covering more
than one time period category in this century)]