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Plow-horse cavalry: the Caney Creek boys of the Thirty-fourth Texas.

Title
Plow-horse cavalry: the Caney Creek boys of the Thirty-fourth Texas. Text and photos. by Robert S. Weddle.
Author
Weddle, Robert S.
Publication
Austin, Tex., Madrona Press [1974]

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Description
xvi, 210 p. illus., map (on lining papers); 24 cm.
Summary
Robert S. Weddle weaves the letters exchanged between Americus Leonidas Nelms and his wife Minerva Jane--his maternal grandparents--during the Civil War into a narrative about the Civil War itself. He resists the temptation to make it a family story, offering evidence of heroism and self-sacrifice by those whose forebears served in the Confederacy. The Civil War story, from whatever angle it is viewed, is one of pathos, suffering, and tragedy. It is as much so when regarded in the perspective of the deserters and those who suffered unreasoning persecution for their Union sympathies as when seen in the eyes of the long-suffering and homesick Confederate soldier. The fact is epitomized in this study of the North Texas area, whose people were sharply divided on the matter of secession.
Subject
  • Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Cavalry Regiment, 34th
  • 1861-1865
  • Regimental histories
  • United States > History > Regimental histories. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Texas > History > Regimental histories. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Texas
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN
74075208
OCLC
  • ocm01008302
  • 1008302
  • SCSB-144490
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library