Spartan Band

Burnett's 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military
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Author: Thomas Reid ISBN: 9781574414066
Publisher: University of North Texas Press Publication: March 15, 2005
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Thomas Reid
ISBN: 9781574414066
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Publication: March 15, 2005
Imprint:
Language: English
In Spartan Band (coined from a chaplains eulogistic poem) author Thomas Reid traces the Civil War history of the 13th Texas Cavalry, a unit drawn from eleven counties in East Texas. The cavalry regiment organized in the spring of 1862 but was ordered to dismount once in Arkansas. The regiment gradually evolved into a tough, well-trained unit during action at Lake Providence, Fort De Russy, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry, as part of Maj. Gen. John G. Walker's Texas division in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Reid researched letters, documents, and diaries gleaned from more than one hundred descendants of the soldiers, answering many questions relating to their experiences and final resting places. He also includes detailed information on battle casualty figures, equipment issued to each company, slave ownership, wealth of officers, deaths due to disease, and the effects of conscription on the regiments composition. The hard-marching, hard-fighting soldiers of the 13th Texas Cavalry helped make Walkers Greyhound Division famous, and their story comes to life through Thomas Reids exhaustive research and entertaining writing style. This book should serve as a model for Civil War regimental histories.Terry L. Jones, author of Lees Tigers
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In Spartan Band (coined from a chaplains eulogistic poem) author Thomas Reid traces the Civil War history of the 13th Texas Cavalry, a unit drawn from eleven counties in East Texas. The cavalry regiment organized in the spring of 1862 but was ordered to dismount once in Arkansas. The regiment gradually evolved into a tough, well-trained unit during action at Lake Providence, Fort De Russy, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry, as part of Maj. Gen. John G. Walker's Texas division in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Reid researched letters, documents, and diaries gleaned from more than one hundred descendants of the soldiers, answering many questions relating to their experiences and final resting places. He also includes detailed information on battle casualty figures, equipment issued to each company, slave ownership, wealth of officers, deaths due to disease, and the effects of conscription on the regiments composition. The hard-marching, hard-fighting soldiers of the 13th Texas Cavalry helped make Walkers Greyhound Division famous, and their story comes to life through Thomas Reids exhaustive research and entertaining writing style. This book should serve as a model for Civil War regimental histories.Terry L. Jones, author of Lees Tigers

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