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Civil War Recollections of James Lemuel Clark - Including Previously Unpublished Material on the Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas in October, 1862

Anglais · Livre de poche

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A surprising number of Texans disagreed with their state's decision to secede from the Union in 1860. Most of them immigrants from Northern or Border states, many had settled in Cooke and surrounding counties in the years before the Civil War. Though they abided by the decision to secede, they disagreed openly with some of the Confederacy's laws, such as the rule exempting certain slave-owners from military service.

James Lemuel Clark, eighteen at the outbreak of the Civil War, was the son of one of those men. These memoirs, which he wrote in his seventies, recount his involvement in a series of tragic events that typified the disruption and confusion of the Civil War years. Clark relates his experiences with the Texas militia in Indian campaigns and with the Confederate Army after he could no longer avoid service, but the key event in his memories is the Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, in October, 1862. In that affair more than forty men, including Clark's father and many of his neighbors, were executed for their Union sympathies.

This book is a valuable addition to other contemporary accounts of the Great Hanging, but on a larger scale it affords a new view of life in Texas and in the Confederate armies during the Civil War and of many of the events that shaped that war's survivors and Reconstruction Texas.

Détails du produit

Auteurs James Lemuel Clark
Collaboration L. D. Clark (Editeur)
Edition Texas A&M University Press
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre de poche
Sortie 19.12.1984
 
EAN 9780890969830
ISBN 978-0-89096-983-0
Pages 132
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 7 mm
Poids 203 g
Thèmes Elma Dill Russell Spencer Seri
Elma Dill Russell Spencer Seri
Catégories Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes
Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Biographies, autobiographies
Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Général, dictionnaires
Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires

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