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Fire in the cane field : the Federal invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863 / Donald S. Frazier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frazier, Donald S. (Donald Shaw), 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secession.
- History.
- Sea control.
- Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- Louisiana.
- Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
- Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- Texas.
- Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
- Secession--Louisiana.
- Secession--Texas.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Buffalo Gap, TX : State House Press Book, [2009]
- Summary:
- Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995). This award-winning book explains the motivations behind the Confederate campaign in New Mexico and Arizona, as well as the conduct of the offensive and the causes of its catastrophic failure. An informative and entertaining prequel to Fire in the Cane Field.
- Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February-May 1863 (Buffalo Gap, Texas: State House Press, 2010). The next installment in the Louisiana Quadrille series is a detailed narrative of the Federal land and naval raid up Bayou Teche and the contest for the west bank of the Mississippi. One of the great untold stories of the sieges of Vicksburg and Part Hudson.
- Contents:
- 1 Secession 15
- 2 The Yankees Are Coming 39
- 3 Behavior That Would Shame a Comanche 55
- 4 Militia 71
- 5 Total War 81
- 6 Richard Taylor 97
- 7 Plundering Armies 109
- 8 Bonnet Carř 123
- 9 A Confederate Army 133
- 10 Sibley's Brigade 145
- 11 Texas Invaded 159
- 12 Union Offensive 179
- 13 Georgia Landing 197
- 14 Beast Butler 217
- 15 Nathaniel P. Banks 237
- 16 Armies of the Gulf 249
- 17 Cottonclads 263
- 18 Galveston 277
- 19 The Turning Tide 299
- 20 What Our Friends May Expect 311
- 21 Two Years after Secession 331.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ( pages [363]-371) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781933337364
- 1933337362
- 9781893114562
- 1893114562
- OCLC:
- 183267095
- Publisher Number:
- 99934630588
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