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Texas in the Confederacy - Colonel Harry McCorry Henderson
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Texas in the Confederacy
by Colonel Harry McCorry Henderson
Hardcover, 8 1/2 X 6 inches (octavo), blue buckram, dark blue titles,graphic dust jacket (now encased in archival quality Brodartoverwrap). The Naylor Company, San Antonio, Texas (1955). xv, 166pages, includes bibliography & index.Hard-to-find title.
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An accurate and absorbing account of all the Civil War campaigns in which any Texas organizations participated - such famous units as Hood's Texas Brigade, Walker's Division, Terry's Texas Rangers and Sibley's Arizona Brigades, as well as many little-known ones.
Texas troops fought in every theater of the Civil War outside the state, and at home had problems to contend with that most of the other states didn't have; a long coastline and a long frontier had to be guarded, one from the federals and the other from the Indians.
The most brilliant operation fought, says Colonel Henderson, was the battle of Sabine Pass, September 8, 1863. A full account of this engagement in the terms of a professional soldier is given under the "1st Heavy Artillery Regiment" chapter.
One of the most daring plans of the South, aimed at seizing the entire Southwest to the California coast, was the invasion of New Mexico bu a brigade of Texans under Harry Hopkins Sibley. The little-known story of this brigade and the battles it fought in the arid territory along the Rio Grande in New Mexico are told in the intensely human chapter on "Sibley's Arizona Brigade" and illustrated on the dust jacket.
TEXAS IN THE CONFEDERACY is doubly valuable for bringing together all the organizations into one handy book, and for creating through this compilation a stirring story of patriotism, bravery, humor and action that wil be a source of pride for every Texan and of exciting reading for all.
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Overall very good, mild shelf-wear to board edges, slight darkening and spottiness to page edges. Binding is square and tight, interior clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is near very good with some chipping at spine hear and fore-corners and along rear top edge , mild shelf scuffing to surfaces. Front graphic is very sharp and clear
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