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- Moss Bluff Rebel: A Texas Pioneer in the Civil War
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
- Series: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce
summary
So wrote Texas pioneer cattle drover William Berry Duncan in his March 1862 diary entry, the day he joined the Confederate Army. Despite his misgivings, Duncan left his prosperous business to lead neighbors and fellow volunteers as commanding officer of cavalry Company F of Spaight’s Eleventh Battalion that later became the 21st Texas Infantry in America’s Civil War.
Philip Caudill’s rich account, drawn from Duncan’s previously untapped diaries and letters written by candlelight on the Gulf Coast cattle trail to New Orleans, in Confederate Army camps, and on his southeast Texas farm after the war, reveals the personable Duncan as a man of steadfast integrity and extraordinary leadership. After the war, he returned to his home in Liberty County and battled for survival on the chaotic Reconstruction-era Texas frontier.
Supplemented by archival records and complementary accounts, Moss Bluff Rebel paints a picture of everyday life for the Anglo-Texans who settled the Mexican land grants in the early nineteenth century and subsequently became citizens of the proudly independent Texas Republic. The carefully crafted narrative goes on to reveal the wartime emotions of a reluctant Confederate officer and his postwar struggles to reinvent the lifestyle he knew before the war, a way of life he sensed was lost forever.
Moss Bluff Rebel will appeal to history lovers of all ages attracted to the drama of the Civil War period and the men and women who shaped the Texas frontier.
Table of Contents
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- List of Figures and Maps
- pp. xi-xii
- Series Editor's Foreword
- p. xiii
- Chapter 1 Pioneer
- pp. 1-10
- Chapter 2 Character
- pp. 11-21
- Chapter 3 Adjustment
- pp. 22-27
- Chapter 4 Duty
- pp. 28-35
- Chapter 5 Disgust
- pp. 36-40
- Chapter 6 Morale
- pp. 41-46
- Chapter 7 Mumps
- pp. 47-52
- Chapter 8 Oysters
- pp. 53-57
- Chapter 9 Louisiana
- pp. 58-62
- Chapter 10 Insurance
- pp. 63-70
- Chapter 11 Escape
- pp. 71-77
- Chapter 12 Mission
- pp. 78-83
- Chapter 13 Amnesty
- pp. 84-91
- Chapter 14 Disguise
- pp. 92-99
- Chapter 15 Texas
- pp. 100-107
- Chapter 16 Spindletop
- pp. 108-112
- Chapter 17 Collapse
- pp. 113-116
- Chapter 18 Resolve
- pp. 117-121
- Chapter 19 Surrender
- pp. 122-129
- Chapter 20 Home
- pp. 130-137
- Chapter 21 Struggle
- pp. 138-147
- Chapter 22 Progress
- pp. 148-156
- Chapter 23 Rest
- pp. 157-162
- Bibliography
- pp. 187-202
Additional Information
ISBN
9781603446150
Related ISBN(s)
9781603440899
MARC Record
OCLC
726828942
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No