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Texans in the Confederate Cavalry
by Anne J. Bailey
"an excellent series [that] should be in every Texas school!"—Empire Books". . . what is so inviting about the entire series is the depth and length to which Civil War Campaign and Commanders writers go to tell more than just battlefield statistics."—Eclectic Homeschool Online
Texas Rangers had patrolled on horseback since the early days of the Republic. Texas military heritage, born in a revolution from Mexico in the 1830s and maturing in the Mexican-American War of the 1840s, shaped all who lived there. Now, years later, a handful of these veterans and a generation raised in this heritage would make a colorful and heroic contribution to the Civil War as unique and independent "horse soldiers." This is the picturesque story of their battles and skirmishes where the often outnumbered cavalry, through bravado or sheer madness, frequently helped turn the tide of battle . . . from Colonel Parsons' assault on the Federal Navy during the Red River Campaign of 1864 to Terry's Texas Rangers with General Wheeler's horsemen tirelessly badgering Sherman on his "March to the Sea," it's all here. A lively and picturesque narration by a respected historian.
ANNE J. BAILEY is the author of six books on the Civil War, including In the Saddle with the Texans: Day-by-Day with Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, 18621865 (McWhiney Foundation Press, November 2004) and Between the Enemy and Texas: Parsons' Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. She serves as the editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly and the SCWH Newsletter, and is a professor of history at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia.
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Texans in the Confederate Cavalry
ISBN 1-886661-02-2 paper $11.95LC 95-11704. 6x9. 98 pp. 19 b&w photos.
6 maps. Bib. Index.
Publication Date: 1995.
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