"The Best Stuff Which the State Affords": a Portrait of the Fourteenth Texas Infantry in the Civil War
Description:
This study examines the social and economic characteristics of the men who joined the Confederate Fourteenth Texas Infantry Regiment during the Civil War and provides a narrative history of the regiment's wartime service. The men of the Fourteenth Infantry enlisted in 1862 and helped to turn back the Federal Red River Campaign in April 1864. In creating a portrait of these men, the author used traditional historical sources (letters, diaries, medical records, secondary narratives) as well as st…
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Date:
December 1998
Creator:
Parker, Scott Dennis