Colorfully known as the "Greyhound Division" for its lean and speedy marches across thousands of miles in three states; Major General John G. Walker's infantry division in the Confederate army was the largest body of Texans -- about 12;000 men at its formation -- to serve in the American Civil War. From its creation in 1862 until its disbandment at the war's end; Walker's unit remained; uniquely for either side in the conflict; a stable group of soldiers from a single state. Richard Lowe's compelling saga shows how this collection of farm boys; store clerks; carpenters; and lawyers became the trans-Mississippi's most potent Confederate fighting unit; from the vain attack at Milliken's Bend; Louisiana; in 1863 during Grant's Vicksburg Campaign to stellar performances at the battles of Mansfield; Pleasant Hill; and Jenkins' Ferry that helped repel Nathaniel P. Banks's Red River Campaign of 1864. Lowe's skillful blending of narrative drive and demographic profiling represents an innovative history of the period that is sure to set a new benchmark.
#16711756 in Books Amory Dwight Mayo 2001-03-01 2001-03-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x .75 x 5.98l; 1.09 #File Name: 0807125229184 pagesSouthern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Real GemBy Clifton C. HawkinsThis work is a real gem. It consists of the memoir [translated from the French] of Jean-Charles Houzeau's years at the *New Orleans Tribune* during part of the Civil War and Reconstruction [pp. 69-153]; a harrowing letter to a friend describing Houzeau's hairbreath escape from death during the infamous New Orleans pogrom of 1866 [pp. 155-161]; and a long; annotated introduction by the volume's editor; David C. Rankin [pp. 1-67]. Houzeau was a white Belgian [first and most fluent language French] whose amazing life included "passing for black" while editing the first African-American daily in the United States. *The New Orleans Tribune* was a voice for racial equalitarianism; class justice; and other progressive causes at a time when such voices were rare indeed. Houzeau's account of his experiences in New Orleans is evocative and brilliant. He describes and analyzes the tensions between the prewar free French/Creole elite [considered "black" or "colored" by the whites; and as a favored; distinct group by themselves]; the dilemmas of a radical working an a reformist environment; and other topics. I at first resented the length of Rankin's introduction [I'm generally dissatisfied when the length of the scholarly apparatus of an original source compares to or exceeds the document itself] but long before I finished I was wishing for a full-length biography; and; even more; for an edition of additional Houzeau's writings; not only his articles and editorials for his paper; but especially his private letters to friends and family [which have apparently never been published; much less translated into English].
