 Author: Bailey, Anne J.
Title: Between the Enemy and Texas: Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War
Binding: paperback
Book Condition: new
Publisher: Fort Worth, TX Texas Christian University Press 2005
ISBN: 0875653073 / 9780875653075
Book Number: N00485
358 pages. "Much of the Civil War west of the Mississippi was a war of waiting for
action, of foraging already stripped land for an army that supposedly
could provision itself, and of disease in camp, while trying to hold out
against Union pressure. There were none of the major engagements
that characterized the conflict farther east. Instead, small units of
Confederate cavalry and infantry skirmished with Federal forces in
Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana, trying to hold the western
Confederacy together. The many units of Texans who joined this fight
had a second objective—to keep the enemy out of their home state by
placing themselves "between the enemy and Texas." Historian Anne
J. Bailey studies one Texas unit, Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, to show
how the war west of the Mississippi was fought."
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