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The Maltby Brothers' Civil War / Norman C. Delaney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delaney, Norman C.
- Series:
- Canseco-Keck history series ; no. 14.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American newspapers--Texas--History--19th century.
- American newspapers.
- Newspaper editors--Texas--Biography.
- Newspaper editors.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Press coverage.
- United States.
- Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Texas.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States--Armed forces--Officers--Biography.
- Maltby, Jasper Adalmorn, 1826-1867.
- Maltby, Jasper Adalmorn.
- Maltby, William Henderson, 1837-1880.
- Maltby, William Henderson.
- Maltby, Henry Alonzo, 1830-1906.
- Maltby, Henry Alonzo.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On December 11, 1863, a US brigadier general and a Confederate artillery captain met on board the packet steamer Diligent on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg. The Confederate officer had not come on board on official business; he was a paroled prisoner of war. The brigadier general was his older brother, who had learned of the younger man's capture three weeks earlier at Confederate Fort Semmes, on the Texas coast, and had arranged to have him brought from New Orleans to Vicksburg to be given medical care at the Federal garrison.The American Civil War has rightly been called a war of brot
- Contents:
- The reunion
- Maltby's circus
- Filibustering
- The Ranchero
- The Bonnie Blue Flag
- The war arrives in South Texas
- Fort Semmes
- Raiders and renegades
- The brigadier general
- "The one rebel organ left"
- A bitter peace
- Military rule
- "That journal on the Rio Grande"
- Yellow fever
- True to Texas.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4619-4453-8
- 1-62349-088-X
- OCLC:
- 859383340
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