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Campaigning with Parsons' Texas Cavalry C.S.A.
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The War Journal and Letters of the Four Orr Brothers - 12th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Parsons' Texas Cavalry), C.S.A.
edited by John Q. Anderson
Hardcover, 8 1/2 X 6 inches (octavo), dark gray cloth, gilt spinetitles, graphic dust jacket. The Hill Junior College Press Hillsboro,Texas, 1967 (printed by the Texian Press, Waco). xv, 173 pages,includes index.
from the book's dust jacket:
"If Henry G. Orr, the young farmer from Ellis County, Texas, had not had literary ambitions and a sense of history, a significant addition to the story of the common soldier's life in the Trans-Mississippi Department during the Civil War would have been lost. Henry was the eldest of the four Orr Brothers From Ellis County who fought for the Confederacy. He was twenty-four years old, Robert was twenty-two, James Twenty, and Lafayette seventeen.
The two older Orr brothers, Henry and Robers, moved ceaselessly with the Ellis County Rangers of Parsons' Texas Cavalry Brigade, used as a highly mobile cavalry in Eastern and southern Arkansas and north and central Louisiana. The Ranger's most serious encounters with the Federals were at Hughes Ferry and L'Anguille in Arkansas and Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in Louisiana.
James and Lafayette Orr, after being captured at Arkansas Post in January, 1863, and spending several months in Camp Douglas, the notorious Federal prisoner-of-was cantonment near Chicago, were exchanged. Upon returning to Dixie, James and Lafayette were assigned to General Pat Cleburne's Division in the Army of Tennessee. James and Lafayette fought in such major battles as Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, the battles of the Atlanta Campaign from Dalton to Jonesboro and at Franklin and Nashville in Hood's ill-fated Tennessee Campaign of late 1864. The two younger Orr brothers saw some of the bitterest fighting of the war and their letters from the battle, written in the untutored language of the Texas frontier, are classics of orthography."
The Journal and the letters of the four Orr brothers add significantly to the record of the American Civil War, especially to the relatively scarce materials concerning the Trans-Mississippi Department."
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Condition: Overall very near fine volume, Just a hint of shelf-wear to board edges, Binding is square and tight, interior clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is good -, (now encased in archival quality Brodart overwrap) with some chipping at spine hear and fore-corners and along rear top edge , mild shelf scuffing to surfaces, DJ spine age-tanned.
edited by John Q. Anderson
Hardcover, 8 1/2 X 6 inches (octavo), dark gray cloth, gilt spinetitles, graphic dust jacket. The Hill Junior College Press Hillsboro,Texas, 1967 (printed by the Texian Press, Waco). xv, 173 pages,includes index.
from the book's dust jacket:
"If Henry G. Orr, the young farmer from Ellis County, Texas, had not had literary ambitions and a sense of history, a significant addition to the story of the common soldier's life in the Trans-Mississippi Department during the Civil War would have been lost. Henry was the eldest of the four Orr Brothers From Ellis County who fought for the Confederacy. He was twenty-four years old, Robert was twenty-two, James Twenty, and Lafayette seventeen.
The two older Orr brothers, Henry and Robers, moved ceaselessly with the Ellis County Rangers of Parsons' Texas Cavalry Brigade, used as a highly mobile cavalry in Eastern and southern Arkansas and north and central Louisiana. The Ranger's most serious encounters with the Federals were at Hughes Ferry and L'Anguille in Arkansas and Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in Louisiana.
James and Lafayette Orr, after being captured at Arkansas Post in January, 1863, and spending several months in Camp Douglas, the notorious Federal prisoner-of-was cantonment near Chicago, were exchanged. Upon returning to Dixie, James and Lafayette were assigned to General Pat Cleburne's Division in the Army of Tennessee. James and Lafayette fought in such major battles as Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, the battles of the Atlanta Campaign from Dalton to Jonesboro and at Franklin and Nashville in Hood's ill-fated Tennessee Campaign of late 1864. The two younger Orr brothers saw some of the bitterest fighting of the war and their letters from the battle, written in the untutored language of the Texas frontier, are classics of orthography."
The Journal and the letters of the four Orr brothers add significantly to the record of the American Civil War, especially to the relatively scarce materials concerning the Trans-Mississippi Department."
****
Condition: Overall very near fine volume, Just a hint of shelf-wear to board edges, Binding is square and tight, interior clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is good -, (now encased in archival quality Brodart overwrap) with some chipping at spine hear and fore-corners and along rear top edge , mild shelf scuffing to surfaces, DJ spine age-tanned.
